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Big Band Spectacular
Arranged by Jack Bullock
Subtitle: A Medley for Concert Band
General Info
Year: 1986
Duration: c. 5:57
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $75.00 | Score Only - $9.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Electric Bass
Drum Set
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Big band is here to stay with Jack Bullock's fantastic medley of some of the greatest big band tunes of all time. Titles are Racing With the Moon, Sing, Sing, Sing, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Johnson Rag, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, Little Brown Jug, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), Stomping at the Savoy, Don't Be That Way, Eager Beaver, Moonlight Serenade, and Two O'clock Jump.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Solano Winds Community Concert Band (Fairfield, Calif.) (Bill Doherty, conductor) - 6 May 2022
- Oakland (Calif.) Municipal Band (Troy Davis, conductor) - 19 July 2015
- Allan Hancock College (Santa Maria, Calif.) Concert Band (Greg Stoll, conductor) - 8 November 2014
- L'Harmonie municipale d'Aubagne (France) (Thierry Lemaire, conductor) - 2 February 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
- At the Apex (2002)
- Big Band Spectacular (as arranger)
- Carnival of Venice (as arranger) (1998)
- The Empire Strikes Back (as transcriber) (1980)
- Fantasia on We Three Kings (as arranger) (2007)
- Five to Go
- Four of a Kind (1985)
- Gymnopedie No. 1 (as arranger) (1888/2008)
- In the Bleak Midwinter (as arranger) (1906/1996)
- Larghetto (as arranger) (1738/1994)
- Okeanos
- Places USA (1994)
- Rain (as arranger) (2008)
- A Salute to New York City (as arranger) (2005)
- Story of Mumble Happy Feet, The (as arranger) (2007)
- Suite from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (as arranger) (2002/2007)
- Three Concert Openers
- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (as arranger) (2007)
- Twelve Days of Christmas (as arranger) (2005)
Resources
- Bullock, J. (1986). Big Band Spectacular: A Medley for Concert Band [score]. Warner Bros.: Miami, Fla.
- Perusal score