Rhapsody in blue / by George Gershwin ; arranged by Billy Strayhorn ; transcribed by David Berger for Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937
Corporate Authors: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization), Essentially Ellington (Jazz program)
Other Authors: Strayhorn, Billy (arranger of music.), Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974, Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- (Conductor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Musical Score Book
Language:No linguistic content, Not applicable
Published: New York : Jazz at Lincoln Center : Warner Bros. Publications, [2003]
Series:Jazz at Lincoln Center library.
Subjects:
Instrumentation:Brass - Trumpet
Brass - Trombone
Keyboard - Piano
Percussion - Other
Strings, bowed - Double bass
Woodwinds - Clarinet
Woodwinds - Saxophone
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Item Description:
  • Originally for piano and orchestra ; arranged for big band ; transcription, as recorded in 1962 by Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
  • For 5 saxophones, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, piano, bass, drums.
  • "This transcription was made especially for Essentially Ellington 2004, the ninth annual Jazz at Lincoln Center High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival."
  • Introductory notes in English by David Berger and Wynton Marsalis.
  • CD available in the media center.
Table of Contents:
  • CD. Stompy jones / Duke Ellington
  • Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin; arr. by Billy Strayhorn
  • Jack the bear / Duke Ellington
  • Sugar rum cherry / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; arr. by Billy Strayhorn
  • Bli-blip ; Diminuendo and crescendo in blue / Duke Ellington.