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1 Vanguard azz Orchestra Series THAD ONES K E N D O R M U S I C P R E S E N T S Big Dier TO THE DIRECTOR Thanks or your interest in this great music These rehearsal notes are meant as an adunct to the most imortant ork, un really, o listening to the recordings or style: straightahead blues better still, attending a live erormance We ve tried in this small sace to give duration :0 the student (that includes all o us) a e hints and aareness o oortunities to imrove the erormance by Thad ones INSTRUMENTATION ull Score Alto Sax I Alto Sax II Tenor Sax I Tenor Sax II Baritone Sax Trumet I ieces at the same temo, as it s un to exeriment Trumet II Trumet III Trumet IV Trombone I Trombone II Trombone III Trombone IV Piano /Guitar ( coies) Bass Drums EXTRA SCORES PARTS AVAILABLE Thad rote his irst azz arrangement at age 1 hen he as a trumet layer in his uncle's band in his native Pontiac, Michigan, along ith brothers Hank (iano) and Elvin (drums) In the 190's he served in the army, led a band o his on, and layed ith other bands beore oining the Count Basie band in 195 Nine years later he let Basie and began arranging or singers, small grous, and the big Harry ames Band In 1965 Thad and drummer Mel Leis ormed their aardinning azz orchestra or the next 1 years this amazing band became an American azz institution They layed Monday nights at the Village Vanguard in NYC on an almost continuous basis, on countless olls in "Don Beat," and recorded a series o albums that remain oular today, including "Consummation," "Central Park North," "Live At The Village Vanguard" and "Suite or Pos" irst ould be our rimary obective, and that is to sing This music is an outgroth o music that as meant or dancing and hen it s right, it makes you eel like moving All the harmonic and rhythmic sohistication o Thad ones and the other great riters, rom letcher Henderson to im McNeely, occur in the rameork o great time To this end, e need to be comortable laying our arts so that e can concentrate on connecting ith the other arts o the ensemble The suggested temo markings reresent the temo that the comosition as layed at the time o Thad s dearture rom the band in 1979 and generally are the uer end o the scale The arrangement can deinitely be layed sloer, and should be i that makes it easier to sing The VO doesn t alays lay these The sax introduction is a great chance to get it going right o the bat Dig in and lay ith a good solid sound, but since it s unison, you have to hold back enough to hear and be tight ith the rest o the section Trombones then need to really o that irst note and decrescendo rom there Try to make the audience um No band could do that like Basie Trombones have an oortunity to deine the time coming out o the tenor solo and should really lay don the time ith the drums Concentrate on the ride beat as you come into it and lay that beat ith the idea o orard movement This is a simler comosition, hoever as such, resents great oortunity or creativity and attention to the details o articulation and dynamics One more note beore turning it over to David Demsey or some articulars Most all questions o balance, blend and dynamics can be ansered by simly knoing as much as ossible about the music you are laying What s the orm o the tune? Are you laying the melody, a counter melody, a background? Who are you laying ith? What s the chord and your osition in it? You ll ind even more questions and ansers, and i you stay ith it, you ll kno hy e re still, ater decades o laying this music, engaged and dedicated to it And remember, it s suosed to be un Kendor Music, Inc M U S I C P U B L I S H E R In 1979 Thad moved to and settled in Coenhagen, here he conducted the 1 Grove Street PO Box 78 Danish Radio KendorMusiccom Big Band and later ormed his on Eclise big band eaturing an Delevan, Ne York USA illustrious mix o layers rom America and Euroe kendormusiccom The Vanguard azz Orchestra

2 HISTORICAL AND REHEARSAL NOTES crescendo in measure 7, a orteiano/crescendo in measure 9, and another crescendo on the hal note in measure 50 On beat 1 o measures 555, desite This historic arrangement as one o the original seven that ormed the reertoire o the original Thad onesmel Leis Orchestra (no the Vanguard azz ormed it as ritten; the trilets are alays layed as a quartereighth There is a the act that the short note o the trilet comes irst, Thad s band never er Orchestra) To this day, in the Vanguard azz Orchestra band olders, Big sace (not a breath) ater the hal note in measure 57, then another sace ater Dier is in the book This ne edition is taken directly rom the original ink the dotted quarter in measure 58; the same sacing haens in measures 59 arts that ere on the stands at the band s debut erormance in ebruary 1966, 60 no housed in the Thad ones Archive at William Paterson University, here Thad served as ounding Director o azz Studies The trumet solo is oen or reeats at Letter D, then builds to the donbeat o Letter E Again, leave the donbeat o E silent These original seven charts ere commissioned by Count Basie or an entire album o Thad ones music but Thad s voicings and ideas ere modern In the transition at Letter H, measures 11 should be subito iano, measures 1516 strong, and measures 1718 screaming! Letter I can be a bar enough to Basie s ears that he never made the record, instead suggesting that Thad start his on band The rest is history! Nevertheless, Big Dier still maintains that singing Basie mindset, and should be rehearsed that ay Its basic decrescendo back to the silent irst beat o the DS oundations are a relaxed but oerul rhythm section ith a driving ride cymbal On the Coda, saces are needed ater the hal note in measure 15 and the beat and cris hihat, underinning saxes and brass that are tight, and alays on dotted quarter in measure 16 the back o the beat The saxes and brass lay their ubeats as late as ossible, locking in ith the tight ride cymbal ski beat A great descrition o the Basie time concet comes rom the legendary Basie alumnus rank Wess, ho once Signiicant recordings o Big Dier: said, That accent is not on the ubeat o our, it s ust beore one! Thad ones/mel Leis Orchestra, Central Park North (recorded 6/17, 18/69) Solid State SS18058 Big Dier is an extended 16bar blues The irst ten measures o every chorus are normal blues changes, ith hat at irst sounds like a VIVI cadence in measures 910 but, instead o going to the I chord in the 11th measure, Thad continues don by holestes to a biii7, then uses a gosellike cycleoiths rogression to end each chorus Thad ones/mel Leis Orchestra, All My Yesterdays ( CDs and 89age booklet; recorded /7/66 and /1/66; released 016 during the 50th anniversary eek at Village Vanguard azz club) Resonance HCD0 As ith many Basie arrangements, a number o key stylistic elements are not rinted on the original chart The rehearsal comments belo are taken rom recorded erormances o the original recording by the Thad onesmel Leis Orchestra, and rom later recordings and erormances by the Vanguard azz Orchestra This arrangement can be erormed at the deeest level hen band members are hearing these great recordings in their minds as they lay The brass lay the onetime theme in octaves starting 1 measure beore Letter B Give these lines shae by emhasizing the high notes in each hrase, and ghosting or deemhasizing the loer notes In measure 5, all three quarter notes are short In measure 7, beat 1 is quiet, ith an oohat! crescendo to beat The donbeat o measure 8, beat, and the donbeats o measure 9, beats 1 and are all marcato The shout choruses that haen at Letters C and E are identical, each ith a lot o dynamic details Measure 5, beat is orte, then subito iano on beat ; KendorMusiccom beat 1 should be let silent no drum ill, or maximum contrast There is a David Demsey Coordinator o azz Studies Curator, Thad ones Archive William Paterson University

3 Αλτο Σαξ Ι Αλτο Σαξ ΙΙ Τενορ Σαξ Ι Τενορ Σαξ ΙΙ Βαριτονε Σαξ Τρυµπετ Ι Τρυµπετ ΙΙ SCORE Μεδιυµ Γροοϖε Τεµπο ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n Big Dier n n Α n n n n n n n n n n σοφτερ Comosed and arranged by Thad ones Τρυµπετ ΙΙΙ Τρυµπετ Ις Τροµβονε Ι Τροµβονε ΙΙ Τροµβονε ΙΙΙ Τροµβονε Ις Πιανο/Γυιταρ Βασσ ρυµσ????? 1 σοφτερ σοφτερ σοφτερ n σοφτερ Γ 9 Σολο (8) Β b 7 b n 19 Α COPYRIGHT 1965 BY D ACCORD MUSIC (ASCAP) KendorMusiccom THIS ARRANGEMENT 016 BY D ACCORD MUSIC (ASCAP) C/O PUBLISHERS LICENSING CORPORATION 8 SOUTH PARK ST, UNIT 615, MONTCLAIR, N COPYRIGHT RENEWED ALL RIGHTS RESERVED USED BY PERMISSION

4 Αλτο Ι Β Σξ Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ SCORE???? Φ 7 Big Dier Β (λαστ ξ ονλψ) é é é é n é é é n é n n é n n n n é n é é n é é n é n n (λαστ ξ ονλψ) υνισ n υνισ n υνισ n υνισ n υνισ b υνισ b υνισ b υνισ b (λαστ ξ ονλψ) Β 7 Ε 7 Α 7 Γ Β b Α Α b Φ 7 Β 7 Ε 7 Α 7 Û Û n n n n n n n n n Βσ? n n b b n n ρσ KendorMusiccom

5 Αλτο Ι Β Σξ Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ SCORE???? Χ n n n n n n n b n n n n n b n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n R n b n m n n n R n b n m n n n n R n b n m n n n R n b n m n n n n n n R n b b m n b n b n b n b n n R n b b m n b n b n b R n b b m n b n b n n n n b R n b b m n b n b n Β b 7 Α 7 + ñ Φ 7 Β 7 Ε 7 Α 7 Α 7 + Β 7 Ε 7 Α 7 Γ Ñ + ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ Big Dier n n n n n n n b b n b n n n n b b b b n Βσ? b n ρσ KendorMusiccom (16) ()

6 SCORE Big Dier Αλτο Ι Β Σξ Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ é n n n n n n é n n n n b n n é n n n n n b n b n n n n é n n n n n n é n n n n n n é n n n n n n n é n n é n n n n n n n é n n n n b n? n n é n b n n b? é n n n b n b b n b b b? n é b n n b b n b? é n n n b n b a Γ 7 Β 7 Αï Ε b 7 Φ 7 + Β 7 + Ε 7 + n b Β b N n n n n n b n n n n n b b Ε b L Û b Α b O Û Û Û Û Βσ? b n b b b b ρσ (8) (1) Φιλλ KendorMusiccom

7 SCORE 5 Big Dier Αλτο Ι é é n n n Β Σξ n é é n é n n n n b n n n n n n n Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Α 7 Σολο Α 7 Ε 7 Β 7 Ε 7 Α 7 Γ 7 Χ 7 Φ 7 Β 7 Ε 7 Α Χ Β Β b Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ??? Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ? Β b 7 Α 7 Φ 7 Β 7 Ε 7 Α 7 Γ Β b I Α 7 Α b N Βσ? b n n 8τη νοτεσ λαστ ξ ονλψ b b ρσ (16) KendorMusiccom

8 Αλτο Ι Β Σξ Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ SCORE 6 Ε % n n é n n n n n n n n n n n n n é n n n n b n n n n n é n n n n n b n b n n n n n n n n n n é n n n n n n n n n b n n é n n n n n n n b é n n n n n n n n n n n é n n n n n b n n n é n n n n n n n n n n n n n é n n n n b n n? b n b n n b b n n é n b n n b? b b é n n n b n b b n b b b? n n n b b n é b n n b b n b n b b? n n n é n b n b a b b b Γ Ñ Γ 7 + Β 7 Αï Ε b7 Φ 7 + Β 7 + Ε 7 + Β b N Ε b LΑ b O Û Û Û Û Û i Big Dier Βσ? b n b b b b ρσ (16) KendorMusiccom

9 SCORE 7 Big Dier Αλτο Ι Φ Α 7 Α 7 Ε 7 Β 7 Ε 7 Α 7 Γ 7 Χ 7 Φ 7 Β 7 Ε 7 Α Χ Β Β b Β Σξ Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ???? Β b 7 Α 7 Φ 7 Β 7 Ε 7 Α 7 Γ b n b b b Β b I Α 7 Α b N Βσ? b n n 8τη νοτεσ λαστ ξ ονλψ b b ρσ (15) λαστ ξ ονλψ KendorMusiccom

10 SCORE 8 Big Dier Αλτο Ι Γ n n n n n n é é Α 7 Α 7 Ε 7 n n n Β 7 Ε 7 é Β Σξ n n n é Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ???? υνισ υνισ υνισ υνισ n ««««n n n n b b n n b n n n n n ΑÑ ΓÑ χρεσχ χρεσχ χρεσχ χρεσχ n n n n b n n b b n b Β b 7 ΦÑ Β b7 é é é é é é é é Α 7 Βσ? b n ρσ (1) KendorMusiccom

11 SCORE 9 Big Dier Αλτο Ι Β Σξ Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ???? Η Α 7 b Φ 7 ~~~ ~~~ b ~~~ n n n n Ι n n n n n b n n n n n n n n n õ n é b n b b é b b b b é n n b b b n b b b Β 7 + Ε 7 + Β b 9 Σολο Φιλλ Û Û Û Û n n n b n Σ αλ Χοδα Βσ ρσ? b n b «KendorMusiccom b n «b 1

12 SCORE 10 i Αλτο Ι Β Σξ Τπτ Ι Τπτ ΙΙ Τπτ ΙΙΙ Τπτ Ις Τβν Ι Τβν ΙΙ Τβν ΙΙΙ Τβν Ις Πνο/Γτρ n U Φινε n n U n n U b n U n n U U n U n n U n U? n n U? b b U? n b n U? b n b b U Β b Β 7 + Ε 7 + Ε b 9 Α b Γ U Û Û Û Û Û Û Big Dier 6006 Βσ ρσ? Σολο b n b b KendorMusiccom U U