Splanky

[king ubu]

Hey guys... in six weeks or so, I'll play some saxophone at my sister's weeding - she wanted none of them church ogun... well, she'll get it at the opening and closing of the ceremony, but in between me and a friend of hers will play three fancy duets on tenor/bari and I might even try the bitchy soprano for one... now I have some weird idea to hook up "Fever" (her choice) with parts of "Splanky"... and as I'm a lazy bastard and haven't been transcribing anything for years now, and time is scarce, would anyone here have some kind of lead sheet and the sax soli part of that tune and could send me scans? That would be oh-so-kind! (And believe me, as I usually play in B, I'll still be transcribing some bits for the baritone anyway, so I'll still get some practice... and I'll also be trying some kind of arrangement of "Waltzing Matilda", that chestnut from down under... which is where I might try the bitchy straight horn, too.)

[king ubu]

Just in case that's not clear: I'm speaking of the Neal Hefti arrangement done for Count Basie on "The Atomic Basie"!

We played that in high school but of course I don't have any sheet music left from that time...

[king ubu]

bump for the merkins!

Edited August 19, 2010 by king ubu

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Hey guys... in six weeks or so, I'll play some saxophone at my sister's weeding - she wanted none of them church ogun... well, she'll get it at the opening and closing of the ceremony, but in between me and a friend of hers will play three fancy duets on tenor/bari and I might even try the bitchy soprano for one... now I have some weird idea to hook up "Fever" (her choice) with parts of "Splanky"... and as I'm a lazy bastard and haven't been transcribing anything for years now, and time is scarce, would anyone here have some kind of lead sheet and the sax soli part of that tune and could send me scans? That would be oh-so-kind! (And believe me, as I usually play in B, I'll still be transcribing some bits for the baritone anyway, so I'll still get some practice... and I'll also be trying some kind of arrangement of "Waltzing Matilda", that chestnut from down under... which is where I might try the bitchy straight horn, too.)

Your request leaves me a little confused. I have the Neal Hefti arrangement. Yes there's a kind of call and response between the reeds and the brass, but there is no sax soli. However, there's space for a tenor sax solo.

[king ubu]

Hey guys... in six weeks or so, I'll play some saxophone at my sister's weeding - she wanted none of them church ogun... well, she'll get it at the opening and closing of the ceremony, but in between me and a friend of hers will play three fancy duets on tenor/bari and I might even try the bitchy soprano for one... now I have some weird idea to hook up "Fever" (her choice) with parts of "Splanky"... and as I'm a lazy bastard and haven't been transcribing anything for years now, and time is scarce, would anyone here have some kind of lead sheet and the sax soli part of that tune and could send me scans? That would be oh-so-kind! (And believe me, as I usually play in B, I'll still be transcribing some bits for the baritone anyway, so I'll still get some practice... and I'll also be trying some kind of arrangement of "Waltzing Matilda", that chestnut from down under... which is where I might try the bitchy straight horn, too.)

Your request leaves me a little confused. I have the Neal Hefti arrangement. Yes there's a kind of call and response between the reeds and the brass, but there is no sax soli. However, there's space for a tenor sax solo.

Maybe it's just all part of the theme... I don't quite remember that arrangement we played back then. Would you have a lead sheet or anything? Maybe a tenor part?

I'll have to play the recording again later, but I have to run now.

[king ubu]

Ah, silly me... it's the shout chorus there that I mean!

Memory played a trick on me... (I mixed it up with a sax soli in another swinging number we did back then, but I can't remember what I meant).

Anyway, what I'm interested in is that shout chorus, but it's really so simple, I guess I can play it after listening to it two more times...