Jitterbug!

Robert Buckley

Robert Buckley

General Info

Year: 2018
Duration: c. 4:45
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00; (digital) - $85.00   |   Score Only (print) - $7.50

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
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
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bass Drum
• Bells
• Drum Set (optional)
• Hi-Hat
• Marimba
• Ride Cymbal
• Snare Drum
• Tom-Tom
• Vibraphone
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

At the height of the Jazz Age, each of the major swing bands had its own signature sound that fans recognized immediately. This swinging composition puts these styles and rhythms together in homage to a vibrant and innovative time in American music. Jitterbug! was written as a tribute to Dal Richards, Canada’s King of Swing, who recently passed away at the age of 99. He fronted his own swing band for almost eighty years.

- Program Note from Shadow Ridge Middle School Honor Winds concert program, 21 December 2018

Jitterbug! was commissioned by the West Vancouver (BC) Youth Band -- Douglas Macaulay, director -- in tribute to “Canada's King of Swing”, Dal Richards.

- Program Note by publisher

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Golden Gate (San Francisco, Calif.) Park Band (Robert Colanico, conductor) - 4 August 2020
• University Preparatory School (Victorville, Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Dennis Harps, conductor) – 4 May 2019
• Southern Mississippi University (Hattiesburg) Concert Band (James Standland, conductor) – 26 February 2019
• Shadow Ridge Middle School (Flower Mound, Tex.) Honor Winds (Alicia DeSoto, conductor) - 21 December 2018 (2018 Midwest Clinic)
• AUSA Military Concert Band (Clovis, Calif.) (Monte Gmur, conductor) - 16 September 2018

Works for Winds by this Composer

Adaptable Music

• Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
• My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
• Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)

All Wind Works

• Cathedral Grove
• Codebreaker
• Continuum (2011)
• December
• Doctor Who (as arranger) (2016)
• Eagle Song (as arranger) (2018)
• Echo Lake
• Echoes of the Silent (2018)
• Excerpts from "The Rite of Spring" (as arranger)
• Fantasy on the Huron Carol
• Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
• Free Running (2012)
• Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
• Hymn to Freedom (as arranger) (1962/2017)
• I Am the Doctor (as arranger)
• Jitterbug! (2018)
• LOL (2016)
• My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
• Pacifica (Buckley)
• Portraits of the North
  • Arctic Fire (2014)
  • Land of the Midnight Sun
  • Iditarod (2013)
• Postcard from England (2014)
• Postcard from Pittsburgh (2013)
• Prestidigitation (2016)
• Procession of the Sorcerers
• ReBoot
• Red Sky
• Rock It Science
• The Seas of the Moon
  • Foaming Sea
  • Sea of Tranquility
• Smoke and Mirrors
• Thunderbird
• Undercurrents (2016)
• Walking to the Sky (2016)
• Windjammer (2011)

Resources

• Bob Buckley Productions Accessed 20 September 2018