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Nighthawk Blues
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Brass Ensemble, Brass Quintet French Horn, Horn, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba - Level 5 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1547401
Composed by Carleton Coon - Joe Sanders. Arranged by Marc Donatelle. This edition: audio, pdf, streaming. 20th Century, Blues, Historic, Jazz, Ragtime. 37 pages. Marc Donatelle #1119898. Published by Marc Donatelle (A0.1547401).The Nighthawks were a band out of Kansas City formed around 1918. Fronted by Carleton Coon (drums) and Joe Sanders (piano), they took the name Nighthawks because of their late radio broadcast time of 11:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Their popularity was so extensive across the country that they set up a ticker-tape between Coon’s drums and Sanders’ piano to receive telegram requests in real time during their broadcasts.
The Nighthawk Blues was their theme song, and listeners were encouraged to write, call or send the telegram. The lyrics to the theme song include:
When Coon and Sanders start to play,
Those Nighthawk Blues you’ll start to sway,
Tune right in on the radio, grab a telegram and say hello
--Nighthawk Blues
Their music captured the exuberance and excesses of America during the 1920s, a decade that came to be known as the Jazz Age.
The band featured all its members in solo moments. I tried to capture this idea in the brass quintet version. Note the detailed articulations
I put in to try to capture the early swing style of the period. The changes are also provided in the solos for the improvisers.
Backstory:
One of my last performing groups was with a new period band put together by a good friend around 2018. Unfortunately, because of the Covid pandemic, the band never returned. I did, however, get the opportunity to delve into this amazing music from 100 years ago.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
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