[TPIN] Voicing - Ellington particularly

[Denny Schreffler]

If you want to hear/see some familiar Mancini charts, there used to book
(with a vinyl record) called "Sounds and Scores."

I just checked amazon.com and see that it has made it into the CD age. 
Mancini only.
For Ellingtonia, this site -- http://www.ellington-music.co.uk/  -- might
have what you want -- I haven't seen their work, but what they seem to
offer is (hopefully) faithful transcriptions linked to specific
recordings.

------Only in recent years have the works of Duke Ellington, perhaps the
greatest and most prolific composer in the history jazz, been available
in print for the jazz orchestras of today. Recreated with reference to
the recordings and the repository of Ellington's original manuscripts at
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, transcriptions by Michael
Kilpatrick are honest and accurate reproductions of Ellington's works.
These are not new arrangements, but the compositions in their original
form as performed by Duke Ellington and his orchestra.

Each transcription [ ... ] has a brief synopsys on this website, with
details of the orchestration, technical features and solo requirements. A
guide to available CDs is provided. Go to the Samples page to view a
sample of the print quality direct from one of my transcriptions. The
pages detail the style of musical notation and annotation employed, and
give performance guidelines. Please follow the menu links for
Order/contact information and other details. -------

http://www.ellington-music.co.uk/


Talking with Gunther Schuller and reading his work on Ellington, one is
left with the strongest impression that Ellington's "sound" was heavily
dependent on the tone and style of the players for whom he wrote -- i.e.,
he wrote (voiced) some things certain ways because of the tone palette
(particular musicians) that were available to him.

Denny Schreffler
Tucson

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: lamb95stew at wideopenwest.com
  To: "Dan Ostler" , "TPIN, POST"
  Subject: Re: [TPIN] Voicing
  Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:45:28 -0600


  Ray Wright: Inside the Score
  Don Sebesky: The Contemporary Arranger

  Michael Stewart, DMA
  www.stewmuse.com/SM-Home.html
  www.deepbluebigband.com

  The answer is... AIR!

  ---------- Original Message -----------
  From: Dan Ostler
  To: "TPIN, POST"
  Sent: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:48:19 -0400
  Subject: [TPIN] Voicing

  > Anybody out there know of a good book on voicing parts in the
  > swing/jazz traditons??
  > The perfect book would come with a "sounds like this...looks like
  > this" CD. I'm looking for some Ellington sounds.......Dan Ostler
  > www.ostler.comwww.stargazing.ca
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