UNC Jazz Press

( 4 Brass) A medium tempo, small band version of the Billy Strayhorn standard. Technically the arrangement is medium to medium difficult and features linear writing that may require some rehearsal time. There are solos for Flugel 2 and Tenor plus a medium register shout chorus. Written for 2 Flugels, Trombone, Alto, 2 Tenor, Bari and Rhythm (alternate Trombone 2 part can substitute for Tenor 2).

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PHIL KELLY has written for bands like Bill Watrous' NY Wildlife Refuge, the Old Tonight Show Band, Doc Seversen, Si Zentner, as welling as functioning as arranger/conductor/drummer for vocalists Buddy Greco, Julius LaRosa, Frank D'Rone, Sylvia Syms, John Gary and Al "TNT" Brags among others. Mr. Kelly also served as the primary arranger for the Fort Worth (TX) Symphony Pops series for more than 25 years. In addition, he has had arrangements played by the Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Cincinnati and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras. Now semi-retired and residing in Bellingham, WA, he still writes jazz and pop orchestra arrangements for publication and is beginning an auxiliary career in the educational field as a clinician in film scoring and music for the media at various college around the United States as well serving as a big band coach at the Bud Shank Centrum Jazz Camp in Port Townsend, WA for the past two years. His first big band jazz album under his own name, Convergence Zone, has just been released on Origin Records.