{"id":2665,"date":"2021-06-11T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resonatamusic.com\/?post_type=product&p=2665"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:23:58","slug":"the-great-american-songbook-vol-5-for-brass-quintet-arr-felix-rigg","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/resonatamusic.com\/?product=the-great-american-songbook-vol-5-for-brass-quintet-arr-felix-rigg","title":{"rendered":"The Great American Songbook Vol. 5 for Brass Quintet – arr. Felix Rigg"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Fats” Waller\u00a0<\/b>– Honeysuckle Rose<\/span><\/p>\n

Brooks Bowman\u00a0<\/b>– East of the Sun<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Cole Porter\u00a0<\/b>– Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye<\/span><\/p>\n

Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly & Ted Shapiro\u00a0<\/b>– If I Had You<\/span><\/p>\n

Cole Porter\u00a0<\/b>– Night and Day<\/span><\/p>\n

This fifth volume of arrangements for brass quintet features another five classic songs from the Great American Songbook. In penning these arrangements, I have tried to ensure that all five instruments have their \u2018moments in the sun\u2019: if not always in each song then certainly throughout the volume itself, which contains a variety of styles and tempi. In this album, I\u2019ve introduced the rhumba rhythm to the series via two well known jazz standards:\u00a0East of the Sun<\/i> and Cole Porter\u2019s immortal Night and Day. <\/i>The hauntingly beautiful ballad Ev’ry Time You Say Goodbye<\/i> is the centrepiece and is followed by another oft-performed standard, If I Had You<\/i>. The exuberant traditional jazz favourite Honeysuckle Rose<\/i> opens the set.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The arrangements are very much designed for public performance: whether as amusing novelties\/encores within a concert dominated by more serious music, or perhaps as background music for an event. I hope that brass players of all standards enjoy these arrangements, which demonstrate the sheer beauty of melodic and harmonic invention within the genre.<\/p>\n

Felix Rigg<\/span><\/p>\n

Parts included:<\/p>\n