Raving Platypi saw Wayne in concert, met him too. Super nice guy, always willing to teach. When I was in high school he came and gave us tone lessons. I'm a bone player and he even helped me
Don't you just love the feeling you get when you hear a song like this. the chill that goes down your spine (and Gordon goodwin's charts are the only ones that can do this) when you hear a triumphant ending like this one.
I like this style of jazz...not the 50's stuff you hear on Tom and Jerry, the newer, underground stuff that nobody gives a flying fuck about...I LOVE this style of jazz, and I'm interested in learning to play jazz drumming, even though I'm also a metal fan (SLAYEEEEEEEEER!!!)
My jazz band played this last year, we won the Eau Claire Jazz Festival and played at the University of Northern Iowa with this song being one of our charts. Sick sax part!!
@MrRhoadsfan95 I'm in the same boat right now. I've been in jazz band all through high school, but now I'm a senior in high school and finally playing lead trombone, and jazz has become something I love. Now I'm just absolutely fired up for jazz. Metal is literally the only thing I've listened to, but after a jazz festival this year I started listening to Gordon Goodwin, Herbie Hancock, and other great musicians. It's so amazing.
i remember playing this in all county jazz band.... that first sax soli was increadibly fun to play! too bad we had to cut it out cause only three people could play it. :P
im in the second jazz band at my high school and we're playing this exact arrangement (we just got the music today) and im playing lead trumpet. its gonna be sick when we perform this and shock the hell outta jazz 1 and many other people that we are very much capable of playing this
the best thing in this song is def the little instrumental solis that go on. I love the trumpet soli near the end. I'm lead trumpet in my high school Jazz I and i REALLY wish we could have played this song. Right now we are playing Sing Sang Sung but i think this one and Jazz Police both are better.
I played the 2nd trombone part on my clarinet December of 2009, but we had no trombones in our jazz band and baritones, also, we played a different arrangement.
i played this last year in jazz band earned us straight ones at a band review! really fun song to play and high notes for us trumpets are always a plus :D
We just spent a week trying to get our trombones to play something past the first 2 bars, saxes worked our asses off, and they're the only ones who can't play it. We don't get to play it at festival now :(
@bronstain27 im lead alto in jazz band at my school and id love to be playing this, we played count bubbas revenge though and jazz police was our marching show this year. the movements were jazz police, land of makebelieve, and big niose from winnetka.
from the making of swinging for the fences video i thought the lineup was wayne on lead, dennis fareas on second, someone i forgot on 3rd and dan on 4th
i double on euph and bass bone with euph being my primary. the bass bone part for this was soooo much fun after i was able to sit down and learn it. i also added some umph to the part as opposed to this recording i made the bass bone audible. lol.
