Jazz Ensemble Jazz Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.734600
Composed by Allen Toussaint, Alvin Tyler, Freddy Friday, and Marilyn Schack. Arranged by Dennis Ruello. Contemporary. Score and parts. 50 pages. Chicory Music #6598489. Published by Chicory Music (A0.734600).
Java is an instrumental adaptation from a 1958 LP of piano compositions, The Wild Sounds of New Orleans, by Toussaint, also known as New Orleans producer/songwriter Allen Toussaint. As was the case of the rest of Toussaint's LP, Java was composed at the studio, primarily by Toussaint.
The first charting version was done by Floyd Cramer in 1962. His version fell just short of the U.S. Top 40.
In 1963, trumpet player Al Hirt recorded the instrumental, and the track was the first single from his album Honey in the Horn. It was Hirt's first and biggest hit on the US pop charts, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 29, 1964 and spending four weeks at number one on the easy listening chart in early 1964. The song was also featured on his greatest hits album, The Best of Al Hirt. Hirt released a live version on his 1965 album, Live at Carnegie Hall. He also recorded the song with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops for the RCA Red Seal album Pops Goes the Trumpet (Holiday for Brass) in 1964.
Hirt's recording won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra in 1964.
This jazz ensemble / big band arrangement features your lead trumpet player with medium to easy background support from the rest of the band. Optional parts for this arrangement are: 2nd Tenor Sax., 4th Trumpet, 4th Trombone and Guitar.
Performance Time: approx. 2:05
