No Nonsense Blues
by Brian Rhodes
Jazz Ensemble - Sheet Music

Item Number: 18117057
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Ensembles
Jazz Ensemble
Genres
Blues
Jazz
Composers
Brian Rhodes
Publishers
Twin Towers Music Publications
Formats
Score
Conductor Score
Item Types
Physical
Levels
Intermediate
Usages
School and Community
Jazz band - Intermediate

SKU: TW.J1022S

Composed by Brian Rhodes. Conductor's score only. Full set (conductor's score and parts) available separately: see item J1022. Conductor's score. Twin Towers Music Publications #J1022S. Published by Twin Towers Music Publications (TW.J1022S).

In the spring of 2003, I was asked to compose the sight reading for the Arkansas All-State jazz tryouts. "No-Nonsense Blues" is the result of that request. The head contains the usual sight reading pitfalls including accidentals, weird intervals and rotations around chord tones. I thought the tune was cool enough to make a basic blues arrangement, thus my first blues tune for big band. It's pretty straight forward, the tenor sax takes the first solo, then the solo section is open to anyone wanting to play some blues. After the solos, there is a pretty weird section where the band trades 4's with the drummer and the chords are pretty strange, but after that it goes back to basic 12 bar blues. This tune would make a great addition to the blues genre of any big band book.