Wild Cat Blues

Composed by
Fats Waller
Arranged by
Jock McKenzie
Price
£ 18.00 

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 1904 – December 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

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  • For Conductors, Teachers and/or Students
  • Percussion Backing Tracks to accompany Superbrass Educational Material
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  • We always use 4 bars of Introduction before each tune starts (unless otherwise stated)
  • Turn your Practice into a Performance and have fun !
  • 4 Trumpets
  • 1 Horn in F
  • 3 Trombones
  • 1 Euphonium (or Trombone)
  • 1 Tuba
  • 1 Drum Kit
  • All Alternative Brass Parts Included

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Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May1904 – December 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer,and comedic entertainer. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid the ground work for modern jazz piano. His best-known compositions, "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999. Waller was the youngest of 11 children born to Adeline Locket Waller, a musician, and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller in New York City. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to playing the organ at his father's church. His mother taught him in his youth and he later attended private music lessons, paying for them by working in a local grocery store. Waller became one of the most popular performers of his era, finding critical and commercial success both in the USA and Europe. He was also a prolific songwriter, and many songs he wrote are still popular.

Clarence Williams (October 1893 - November 1965) was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer and publisher. He was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana and ran away from home at the age 12 to join a traveling minstrel show, then later moved to New Orleans. At first, Williams worked shining shoes and doing odd jobs, but soon became known as a singer and master of ceremonies. By the early 1910s, he was a well-regarded local entertainer playing the piano and was composing new tunes. Williams was a good business man too and worked arranging and managing entertainment at the localAfrican-American vaudeville theatre and at various saloons and dance halls around Rampart Street. Williams started a music publishing business which by the 1920’s was the leading African-American owned music publisher in the country. After settling in New York, he married blues singer Eva Taylor, with whom he would frequently perform. He was one of the primary pianists on scores of blues records recorded in New York during the time and also helped recruit many of the artists and led the studio bands who performed on the Okeh, Columbia and other record labels. These bands were known as the "Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings”, the "Clarence Williams' Washboard Five” and "The Red Onion Jazz Babies" which featured both Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, two of the most important jazz soloists before the 1940s.

“This is joyous stuff; an intelligent, coherent crossover disc, performed with phenomenal punch. Brilliantly recorded too – what’s the point of assembling a collective of virtuoso brass players if they can’t make your ears bleed ?”

Graham Rickson
www.theartsdesk.com

“Under the Spell of Spain defies any category other than: superb.”

Nicholas F. Mondello
Allaboutjazz.com

“Under the Spell of Spain defies any category other than: superb.”

Nicholas F. Mondello
Allaboutjazz.com

"WOW !!!!! all of you should be locked up !!!! What great stuff - the compositions/arrangements, the playing (OUTRAGEOUS !!! ), everything is simply fantastic. (actually - i couldn't have expected anything less ! ) Many, many thanks to you and all for your superb contributions. yet again, you've managed to raise the bar! (an inch or two is ok but a few yards is really unfair !!!!!!!!!! )"

Jiggs Whigham
International Jazz Trombone Soloist, Musical Director, BBC Big Band, President International Trombone Association and Professor Hanns Eisler College of Music, Berlin

“This is joyous stuff; an intelligent, coherent crossover disc, performed with phenomenal punch. Brilliantly recorded too – what’s the point of assembling a collective of virtuoso brass players if they can’t make your ears bleed ?”

Graham Rickson
www.theartsdesk.com

"Who but the best professionals could live up to this ?... Everything about this disc is to be recommended, the recording is crystal clear and the playing and arranging of the first water”

Dr. Paul Sarcich
www.mvdaily.com

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