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Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  A Child Is Born is a jazz instrumental that was later recorded with lyrics added. It was written in 1969 by the jazz trumpeter Thad Jones with lyrics added independently by Alec Wilder after hearing the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra perform the instrumental. The instrumental and the song have been recorded by a number of musicians including Tony Bennett, Stanley Turrentine and Bill Evans.

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Duration 3:30 A Child Is Born is a truly beautiful picture—sacred or secular—of the Advent story painted from the enduring viewpoint of his mother, Mary. Written in 1969 by jazz trumpeter Thad Jones. The lyrics were added independently by Alec Wilder after he heard the Thad Jones - Mel Lewis Orchestra perform it. The song has been described by Bob Yurochko (with contributor Wynton Marsalis) in A Short History of Jazz as a “beautiful ballad of mainstream jazz. This arrangement begins with a quiet intro in which both the piano and the Bb Instrument touch very lightly on Silent Night. The easily memorized single stanza is sung first by the altos, who are then joined by and succeeded by the sopranos and then deftly handed off to altos, tenors and basses who are subsequently involved in each four-part cadence point well as other unison and two-part sections. The halved repeat of the stanza can be a very nice piano feature or, optionally a Bb instrument—Flugelhorn (even a muted Trumpet) a Bb Clarinet or a Bb tenor saxophone can supply the solo with the voices singing the very light background. The key change is kept simple, with a descending scale into the new key. The final section makes additional mention of STILLE NACHT as well as echoing the intro at the jazz ending. Still, the instrumental part remains optional and the chord symbols make it easy to include string bass or even gentle jazz guitar (drums on this should, of course be mainly light brushes). The vocal parts are limited to practical ranges and, while there is divisi in the soprano part, each voice is always easily sung). The accessible accompaniment has comparatively little movement in the left hand beyond the middle of a typical measure, especially when there are technical requirements in the right hand. #choral #jazz choral #church choral #liturgical choral.

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Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  I'll Be Around is a popular song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942. The first hit version was by The Mills Brothers in 1943 when the song reached No. 17 in the Billboard pop charts. The song has become a well-known standard, recorded by many artists. Wilder said, in an interview with Jay Nordlinger, that the song came to him in a taxi cab in Baltimore. Just the title. I spotted [the title] as I was crumpling up the envelope some days later. Since I was near a piano, I wrote a tune, using the title as the first phrase of the melody. I remember it only took about 20 minutes. The lyric took much longer to write..

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SKU: A0.1282279

Theme and three choruses of walking bass line. Notation for double bass (electric or acoustic).

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SKU: A0.794139

Isn't It Romantic? is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook. The music was composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It has a 32-bar chorus in A–B–A–C form. Alec Wilder, in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900–1950, calls it a perfect song. This version features a root-based chord-blocking that John and I have used in a number of our arrangements, but aside from a couple of left-hand fills we've stayed very true to the original melody.

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Partitura clara, objetiva, concisa e acessível apresentando marcações de cifra, figuras rítmicas menores que a colcheia, introdução e notas sincopadas, buscando a maior fidelidade com a versão original através das notas mais marcantes e características, visando o melhor resultado com harmonia e equilíbrio, oferecendo as devidas informações para uma livre interpretação através da exposição deste fio melódico, cuidadosamente diagramado e organizado para melhor visualização, entendimento e execução. Presença de sinalizações e sinais de repetição também contribuem para a praticidade e a concisão desta partitura, distribuindo toda a música em uma página. Encontre mais partituras como essa, colando o nome do arranjador (Sérgio Matias da Cunha) na barra de pesquisa. ATENÇÃO: Compre os quatro volumes do “Curso de Teclado Primeiros Toques� no site https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/ colando o código na barra de pesquisa. Volume1 (A0.1314018) Volume2 (A0.1314021) Volume3 (A0.1314023) Volume4 (A0.1314028).