What you get
- Immediately download scores and parts
- Instant access to any updates or corrections
- Interview with pianist/composer Jim McNeely on Bob, Mel Lewis, and this
music.
- One downloadable page of Bob's original manuscript score, and one page
from original part
- Discussion with Ryan Truesdell on the details of preparing and editing
this music
- Bob's general thoughts on composition, rehearsal techniques and soloist
suggestions (included in all offers)
- Interviews with other musicians discussing Bob and his music (included
in all offers)
About This Offer
"Ding Dong Ding" is, as Mel Lewis put it when he'd announce the tune on the
bandstand, "Bob's version of a nursery rhyme." A great up-tempo tune, it has
solo space for Soprano and Piano (unaccompanied), though it is possible to
open up the soprano solo section to feature other members of the orchestra.
This work was included on the Mel Lewis and The Jazz Orchestra's recording,
Bob Brookmeyer: Composer/Arranger, which was not only a pivotal
recording in Bob's career, but from which every composition quickly became a
staple in large ensemble repertoire. After years of being out of print (and
before that, published with many mistakes), we are thrilled to finally make
this chart available again, re-engraved and edited directly from Bob’s
original manuscript score, and the original parts provided by the Vanguard
Jazz Orchestra. This is the first time in almost forty years that this music
is available to be studied and performed as Bob originally conceived it.
Score and parts will be available as downloadable PDF files in your
account immediately after purchase.
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THIS PROJECT WAS COMPLETED Jul 29 2006