HockeyDad Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 The Perry Como song? Since it's 1959, it must be. What next? Alley Cat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Yellow by Coldplay which was played by Pacific Crest 2012. That flugel solo was beautiful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agogobell28 Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Has anybody mentioned "Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor" yet??? The Blue Devils/Jim Ott arrangement is SUPERB, far, far, far and away surpassing the Chuck Mangione original... and I mean the pre-2000 version in F sharp minor (1975 thru 1978, played as a pre-show tune in 1999 and other years), not the one in E flat minor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyiMjUvaKlc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewsquared Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Just to be the devil's advocate... If you're talking "symphonic" pieces, and you were to take a population of "symphonic" based listeners and ask them to compare the original "symphonic" selection to the D&BC corps version, to which do you think most of them would gravitate? If you're talking "jazz" pieces, and you were to take a population of pure "jazz" aficionados and ask them to compare an original "jazz" based performance (let's say, Buddy Rich's "Channel One Suite") to the Blue Devils' '86 performance, to which do you think most of them would gravitate? My point is...by and large, I think people gravitate to a style based on their own personal preference. Classical listeners, by and large, prefer classical. Jazz listeners, by and large, prefer jazz (in its' original intended form). D&BC listeners gravitate toward D&BC for its' own unique sound. I realize that eyes would be opened -- but I think that would go both ways. As a personal aside, I've heard Barber's "Adagio for Strings" done countless times (both through recordings and live) in the intended setting. I've heard it done many times on the D&BC field. For me, there is absolutely no comparison. The depth of feeling...the pathos...the heart-rending emotion inherent in the piece which is almost always present in the intended form has never been even closely approached by Drums and Brass. To those familiar with the movie "Platoon"...which version, if available at the time, do you think the directorial staff of the movie would have used in it's climactic scene? Let me posit this. Copland's "Fanfare For The Common Man." We know it as a brass/percussion piece. Many don't know that Copland himself used it as an uninterrupted entrance to the 4th movement of his 3rd Symphony. It was stated twice...first in clarinets, bassoons, and other woodwinds, which flowed from a slower, softer feel of his third movement. Immediately after the woodwind rendering, he re-stated it in it's more well known form -- brass and percussion. Surprisingly, both renditions have their merit. The woodwind rendition makes sense as a progression out of the mood before it...the brass rendition makes more sense to our ears because it exists as we have come to know it. When we hear the brass come in, we have a feeling of "aaaahhhhhh....ok." But both make sense -- WITHIN their reason for being. BUT...and that is a very important caveat...all of this is only the opinion of one man -- one man who tends to ramble, and not shut up when it is best to do so. And I fully grant that for others, the case may be different. No, that's not waffling. It is a mere statement of understanding and fact. Maybe it simply comes down to this: "We like what we like...because we like it. Things make sense to us...because they make sense to us. Things seem right...because they JUST seem right." Ahhhhhhh....the human condition. Very well stated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesleyrp Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Going to make few mad maybe but 2011 BK English Folk Suite Shepards Hay Molly on Shore Etc.... Not a huge Grainger and Vaughn Williams fan but they made those tunes really cool:) Madison '88 Malagueña... Kenton's was cool, Madison's was da bomb!!! Kenton wished he would've written that cool mello solo;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Going to make few mad maybe but 2011 BK English Folk Suite Shepards Hay Molly on Shore Etc.... Not a huge Grainger and Vaughn Williams fan but they made those tunes really cool:) Madison '88 Malagueña... Kenton's was cool, Madison's was da bomb!!! Kenton wished he would've written that cool mello solo;) Totally agree about the blue knights arrangements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HornTeacher Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) This would be more in the category of "wish list"... Yes, I know that Madison did it in the early '70's -- but I would have loved to hear a Jim Ott treatment of "God Bless The Child" -- played, of course, by SOA. Edited June 20, 2014 by HornTeacher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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