Little Lagniappe - (Level IV) Commissioned for SATB jazz choir with tenor sax, piano, bass, and drums by the Oakland Jazz Choir (Oakland, California). The piece is based in a New Orleans feel: straight- and swing-eighth 3-2 Streetbeat, plus the Latin-tinged 2-3 Songo. The lyrics focus on some of the wonderful meals, ingredients, and tasty names of some of the colorful cuisines of the Crescent City (with pronunciation keys for some French and Cajun words). Included in the middle of this composition a recitation by one choir member of a soup recipe: perhaps the only “Cajun-chef rap” in vocal jazz choir repertoire! Sheet music provided includes a full score, a choral score with a rehearsal piano part (a hybrid of the actual piano and bass parts), a rehearsal piano reduction of the SATB parts, and the separate parts for piano, bass, drums, and tenor sax. Though improvisation is preferable within the solos, optional written sax and vocal solos are provided. Lagniappe (“lan-yap”) is a phrase used in New Orleans to describe “a little something extra,” as a chef may provide to a patron at a restaurant or bakery. So “laissez bon temps roulez!” (Let the good times roll!) SATB w/ Rhythm and Jazz Vocalist
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ANTONIO J. GARCIA has accepted the post of Director of Jazz Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond effective, August 2001. A trombonist, bass trombonist or pianist with such artists as Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, Mel Torme, Doc Severinsen, Louis Bellson and Phil Collins as well as a composer/arranger and author, Garica serves as Editor of the International Association of Jazz Educators' Jazz Educators' Journal and is past-president of IAJE-Illinois. He is co-editor and contributing author of Teaching Jazz: A course of Study (published by MENC) and a member of the board of The Midwest Clinic. After teaching the summer academic quarter at Northwestern University, Mr. Garcia will leave his current post of Associate Professor of Music at NU. At Northwestern University he directed the combo program, taught jazz and integrated arts, and for four years directed the vocal jazz ensemble. Prior to NU he served as the Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University. He was selected by students and faculty at NIU as the receipient of a 1992 "Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching" Award and nominated as its candidate for the 1992 CASE "U.S. Professor of the Year (one of 434 nationwide).
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