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Barber – Agnus Dei Op. 11 (full score transcribed for mixed Chorus with Organ or Piano Accompaniment) | ||
Barber – Samuel Barber The Composer And His Music (1992) by Barbara B. Heyman (Biography) | ||
Barber Violin Concerto (Violin and Piano sheet music) | ||
Barber Violin Concerto (Violin part sheet music) | ||
Barber_Violin_Concerto.mscz.mscz | ||
Barber, Samuel Cello Concerto (Cello Part) | ||
Barber, Samuel Sonata For Piano, Op.26 | ||
Barber, Samuel – Sure On This Shining Night for Piano and SATB | ||
Barber, Samuel – Adagio for Strings Op. 11 Agnus Dei (solo piano arr.) | ||
Barber, Samuel – Four Songs – Nocturne | ||
Barber, Samuel – Four Songs – A Nun takes the Veil | ||
Barber, Samuel – Four Songs The Secrets of the Old | ||
Barber, Samuel – Summer Music | ||
Barber, Samuel Adagio for Strings full score | Samuel Barber-Adagio for Strings full score | |
Barber, Samuel Adagio For Strings Samuel Barber (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Barber, Samuel Agnus Dei Adagio for strings op. 11 for mixed chorus | ||
Barber, Samuel Nocturne Op. 33 | ||
Barber, Samuel Op 26 Piano Sonata | ||
Barbra Streisand The way we were (piano) | Barbra Streisand The way we were piano | |
Barbra Streisand – Not While Im Around | ||
Barbra Streisand – Evergreen | ||
Barbra Streisand – Send In The Clowns | ||
Barbra Streisand – The Broadway album (Piano and voice) | Streisand, Barbra – The Broadway album (Piano and voice) | |
Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were | ||
Barbra Streisand Collection | Book Barbra Streisand Collection | |
Barbra Streisand Evergreen | Barbra Streisand Evergreen | |
Barbra Streisand Guilty – songbook | Barbra Streisand Guilty – songbook | |
Barbra Streisand Memories Songbook | Barbra Streisand Memories Songbook | |
Barbra Streisand My Name Is Barbra (Barbra Streisand) (Book) | ||
Barbra Streisand Somewhere From West Side Story | Barbra Streisand Somewhere From West Side Story | |
Barcarolle (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Barney Kessel – The Jazz Guitar Artistry Of Barney Kessel (14 original Guitar Solos) | Barney Kessel – The Jazz Guitar Artistry Of Barney Kessel (14 original Guitar Solos) | |
Barney Kessel – The Jazz Guitar Artistry Of Barney Kessel (Vol. 2 original Guitar Solos) | Barney Kessel – The Jazz Guitar Artistry Of Barney Kessel (Vol. 2 original Guitar Solos) | |
Barney Kessel Danny Boy Guitar with Tablature | ||
Barney Kessel Minor Mode | ||
Baroque Expressions Martha Mier from Bravo Book One (Piano Solos).mscz | ||
Baroque Guitar Sheet Music arr. by Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology,The Classical Guitar | Baroque Guitar Sheet Music arr. by Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology,The Classical Guitar | |
Baroque Keyboard Anthology Book 1 24 Works For Piano Or Keyboard by Robin Bigwood | Baroque Keyboard Anthology Book 1 24 Works For Piano Or Keyboard by Robin Bigwood | |
Barrelhouse And Boogie Piano by Eric Kriss | Barrelhouse And Boogie Piano by Eric Kriss | |
Barry Hanks – Rhythm Changes Solo Transcription | Barry Hanks – Rhythm Changes Solo Transcription | |
Barry Harris Approach to improvised lines & harmony | ||
Barry Harris Basics Summary Of Class Exploring the Diminished | ||
Barry Harris Donna Lee sheet music transcription | ||
Barry Harris Harmonic Method For Guitar, The | ||
Barry Harris Jazz Workshop Part 1 | ||
Barry Harris Jazz Workshop Part 2 | ||
Barry Harris Method Método IMPROVISACIÓN (Español-Spanish) | ||
Barry Harris On Green Dolphin Street sheet music transcription | ||
Barry Harris’ solo on “Woody n’You | Barry Harris Woody n’You | |
Barry Manilow – Can’t Smile Without You | ||
Barry Manilow – Copacabana (At the Copa) | ||
Barry Manilow – Copacabana | ||
Barry Manilow – Mandy | ||
Barry Manilow – Sheet Music Anthology | Barry Manilow – Sheet Music Anthology | |
BARRY WHITE – (THE COLLECTION) | BARRY WHITE – (THE COLLECTION) | |
Barry White – Loves Theme | ||
Bart Howard – Fly Me To The Moon Guitar and TABs (Jazz Standard) | Bart Howard – Fly Me To The Moon Guitar and TABs (Jazz Standard) | |
Bartok – For Children, Sz. 42 Complete 1 to 43 Bela Bartok | ||
Bartok – Improvisations op 20 Bela Bartok | ||
Bartok – Mikrokosmos (Books 1 to 6) Bela Bartok | Bartok – Mikrokosmos (1-6) sheet music | |
Bartok – Mikrokosmos Vol. 2 Bela Bartok | ||
Bartok – Mikrokosmos Vol. 4 Bela Bartok | ||
Bartok – Mikrokosmos Vol.1 Bela Bartok | ||
Bartok – Sonate For Piano Solo Bela Bartok | ||
Bartok 6 Danses populaires roumaines Bela Bartok | Bartok.-.6.Danses.populaires.roumaines | |
Bartok For Children Book 1 Based On Hungarian Folk Tunes Piano Solo | ||
Bartok For Children Book 2 after Slovakian Folk Tunes Piano Solo | Bartok For Children Book 2 after Slovakian Folk Tunes Piano Solo | |
Bartok Improvisations op. 20 Bela Bartok | ||
Bartok Piano Sonata Bela Bartok | ||
Bartok Ten Easy Pieces | ||
Basic Piano Library Piano Recital Book Level 1B | Basic Piano Library Piano Recital Book Level 1B | |
Bass Guitar For Dummies (eBook) | ||
Bass Standards (Classic Jazz Masters) Note for note transcriptions of jazz Bass classic performances | Bass Standards (Classic Jazz Masters) Note for note transcriptions of jazz Bass classic performances | |
Bastien – Piano Basics Level 1 Piano | ||
Bastien Piano Basics – Piano for the Young Beginner Primer A | ||
Bastien Piano Basics – Piano for the Young Beginner Primer B | ||
Bastien Piano Basics – Theory Level 2 | Bastien Piano Basics – Theory Level 2 | |
Bastien Piano Basics Level 3 | ||
Bastien Piano Basics Technic Primer Level for children | ||
Batman – Flowers Of The Past – Danny Elfman | Batman-Flowers-Of-The-Past-Danny-Elfman 1st page | |
Batman – Sonata In Darkness Michael Giacchino | Batman – Sonata In Darkness Michael Giacchino | |
Batman Begins – Hans Zimmer James Newton Howard Ramin Djawadi – Molossus | ||
Batman Returns – Birth Of A Penguin – Danny Elfman | Batman Returns – Birth Of A Penguin – Danny Elfman | |
Battlefield 1 – Homing Pigeon | Battlefield 1 – Homing Pigeon | |
Baywatch – Main Theme | ||
Be My Love (Nicholas Brodszky & Sammy Cahn) Jazz Piano Solo arr. sheet music | ||
Beach Boys Good Vibrations sheet music | ||
Beach Boys The Best Of Book | ||
Beach Boys, The – Guitar Anthology Series | Beach Boys, The – Guitar Anthology Series | |
Beato Book 4.0, The – A Creative Approach to Music Theory and Improvisation for Guitar and Other Instruments | ||
Beautiful (Christina Aguilera) | ||
Beautiful rain Soredemo Sekay | Beautiful rain Soredemo Sekay | |
Beauty And The Beast – Alan Menken from 1991 Disney film Piano Solo | ||
Beauty And The Beast – Main Theme – Alan Menken | ||
Beauty And The Beast (Disney) Piano Score | Beauty And The Beast (Disney) Piano Score | |
Bebo Valdes – El Manisero – Piano solo | El Manisero – Bebo Valdes | |
BEBOP – The Music and its Players (Thomas Owens) Book | ||
Bebop Exercise.mscz | ||
BeBop Jazz Piano – John Valerio – Book + MP3 audio tracks | Bebop piano sheet music book | |
Bebop Piano Legends Artist Transciptions For Piano | Bebop Piano Legends Artist Transciptions For Piano | |
Bebop Third Ear The Essential Listening Companion (Scott Yanow) Book | ||
Because – The Beatles (For String Quartet) (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Beck – Everybodys gotta learn sometime – with lyrics | ||
Bee Gees It’s Easy To Play Bee Gees | Bee Gees It’s Easy To Play Bee Gees | |
Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love | ||
Bee Gees – Stayin Alive | ||
Bee Gees Anthology – complete songbook | The Bee Gees Guitar Songbook | |
Beegie Adair Fly Me To The Moon Jazz Standard Piano Solo | ||
Beegie Adair It Never Entered My Mind (Jazz Standard Transcription) | ||
Beethoven Ode To Joy (Jazz Version) | ||
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 1st Movement Arr. For 2 Pianos | ||
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 3rd Movement Arr. For 2 Pianos | ||
Beethoven Variations In E Flat Major Eroica Op. 35 Piano Solo arr. | ||
Beethoven L.V. – Piano Sonata 15 | ||
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 In E-Flat Major Emperor Op. 73 – Piano Solo (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Beethoven – 6 Sonatinas | ||
Beethoven – A First Book of Beethoven Easy Piano arr. favorite pieces by David Dutkanicz | Beethoven – A First Book of Beethoven Easy Piano arr. favorite pieces by David Dutkanicz | |
Beethoven – Choral Fantasy For Piano Choir And Orchestra Op. 80 (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Beethoven – Fantasia In G Minor. Op.77 (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Beethoven – Fur Elise | Beethoven – Fur Elise |
Fletcher Henderson: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time
Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr., (born James Fletcher Henderson) (b. Dec. 18, 1897, Cuthbert, Ga., U.S.—d. Dec. 29, 1952, New York, N.Y.) was an American musical arranger, bandleader, and pianist who was a leading pioneer in the sound, style, and instrumentation of big band jazz.
Henderson was born into a middle-class family; his father was a school principal and his mother a teacher. He changed his name (James was his grandfather’s name, Fletcher Hamilton his father’s) in 1916 when he entered Atlanta University, from which he graduated as a chemistry
and math major.
In 1920, he moved to New York, intending to work as a chemist while pursuing a graduate degree. Although he found a part-time laboratory job, he immediately began getting work as a pianist. Within months he was a full-time musician, and he began working for W.C. Handy’s music publishing company as a song plugger (i.e., promoting songs to performers). In 1921, he took a position as musical factotum for Black Swan records, the first black-owned recording company, for which he organized small bands to provide backing for such singers as Ethel Waters. He played piano for leading black singers on more than 150 records between 1921 and 1923 and then began a full-time career as a bandleader.
Although Henderson had shown an interest in music from childhood, when his mother taught him piano, he knew little about jazz until he was in his 20s. His orchestra, made up of well-established New York musicians, at first played standard dance-band fare, with occasional ragtime and jazz inflections.
The band became more jazz-oriented in 1924 when Henderson hired the young trumpeter Louis Armstrong. At about the same time, the band’s musical director and alto saxophonist, Don Redman, conceived the arrangements and instrumentation that would become
the standard for big bands. The rhythm section was established as piano, bass, guitar, and drums; and the trumpet, trombone, and reed sections composed the front line. Arrangements were constructed in the call-and-response manner (e.g., the brass section “calls,” the reed section “responds”), and many tunes were based upon “riffs,” identifiable
musical passages repeated throughout the song.
Henderson was a superb arranger but a poor businessman. Although the band had played major venues and been heard on the radio and in recordings, the band’s finances were frequently in disarray, and musicians often left without notice to join other bands. He nevertheless managed to keep his band going until the mid-1930s, at which time he sold many of his arrangements to Benny Goodman, who used them to define the sound of his new band. “King Porter Stomp,” “Down South Camp Meetin’,”
“Bugle Call Rag,” “Sometimes I’m Happy,” and “Wrappin’ It Up” are among the Henderson arrangements that became Goodman hits.
Through the Goodman band, Henderson’s arrangements became a blueprint for the sound of the swing era. Henderson arranged for Goodman for several years and formed a short-lived band of his own in 1936. That year, Henderson issued “Christopher Columbus,” which became the biggest hit released under his own name. Henderson had little success in his subsequent attempts to organize bands and spent most of the 1940s arranging for Goodman, Count Basie, and others. He formed a sextet in 1950 that became the house band at New York’s Cafe Society, but he suffered a stroke soon thereafter and was forced to retire .
Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra – The Best of “Smack” Henderson
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Track List:
SMACK’S BEST Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra 1926-1934
(00:00) The Stampede 1926 solos: Fletcher Henderson (p), Rex Stewart (cn), Fletcher Henderson (p), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Joe Smith (tp), Rex Stewart (cn) (03:15) St. Louis Shuffle 1927 arr.: Don Redman / solos: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Jimmy Harrison (tb), Tommy Ladnier (cn), Charlie Dixon (bj), Buster Bailey (cl) (06:04) D Natural Blues 1928 arr.: Bill Challis / solos: Bobby Stark (tp), Jimmy Harrison (tb)
(09:36) Freeze And Melt 1929 arr.: Benny Carter / solos: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Rex Stewart (cn), Jimmy Harrison (tb), Harvey Boone (cl), Rex Stewart (cn) (12:43) Raisin’ The Roof 1929 arr.: Benny Carter / solos: Rex Stewart (cn), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Buster Bailey (cl), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Harvey Boone (as)
(15:25) Somebody Loves Me 1930 arr.: Benny Carter / solos: Bobby Stark (tp), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Jimmy Harrison & unk. quartet (voc) (18:31) Sweet And Hot 1931 arr.: Benny Carter / solos: Bobby Stark (tp), Claude Jones (tb), Jimmy Harrison (voc) Rex Stewart (cn), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Claude Jones (tb) (22:00) Hot And Anxious 1931 arr.: Horace Henderson / solos:: Coleman Hawkins (cl), Clarence Holiday (g)
(25:23) Comin’ And Goin’ 1931 arr.: Benny Carter / solos: Benny Morton (tb), Bobby Stark (tp), Russell Procope (as), Benny Morton (tb), Bobby Stark (tp), Morton (tb), Horace Henderson (p) (28:35) I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby 1931 solos: Bobby Stark (tp), Claude Jones (tb), unknown (voc), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Russell Procope (cl) (31:48) Just Blues 1931 arr.: Fletcher Henderson / solos: Claude Jones (tb), Bobby Stark (tp), Rex Stewart (cn), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Bobby Stark (tp), Benny Morton (tb)
(35:00) Sugar Foot Stomp 1931 arr.: Fletcher Henderson / solos: Claude Jones (tb), Rex Stewart (cn), Fletcher Henderson (p), Benny Morton (tb), Coleman Hawkins (ts) (38:07) Singin’ the Blues 1931 arr.: Bill Challis / solos: Rex Stewart (cn), Russell Procope (cl) (41:23) The House Of David Blues 1931 solos: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Bobby Stark (tp), Edgar Sampson (vn), Benny Morton (tb)
(44:36) Strangers 1932 solos: Coleman Hawkins (ts), John Dickens (voc), Rex Stewart (cn) (47:50) Blue Moments (Henderson) – March 11, 1932 arr.: Fletcher Henderson / solos: Rex Stewart (cn), Coleman Hawkins (ts) (50:27) Honeysuckle Rose 1932 arr.: Fletcher Henderson / solos: J. C. Higginbotham (tb), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Bobby Stark (tp), Fletcher Henderson (p) (53:42) King Porter Stomp 1933 arr.: Fletcher Henderson / solos: Bobby Stark (tp), Russell Procope (cl), Dickiy Wells (tb), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Red Allen (tp)
(56:41) It’s the Talk of the Town 1933 arr.: Fletcher Henderson / solos: Hilton Jefferson (cl), Red Allen (tp), Coleman Hawkins (ts) (1:00:15) Queer Notions 1933 arr.: Horace Henderson / solos: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Red Allen (tp) (1:03:06) Hocus Pocus 1934 arr.: Will Hudson / solos: Buster Bailey (cl), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Red Allen (tp) (1:06:23) Big John’s Special 1934 arr.: Horace Henderson / solos: Irving Randolph (tp), Hilton Jefferson (as), Horace Henderson (p)
(1:09:14) Down South Camp Meetin’ 1934 arr.: Fletcher Henderson / solos: Red Allen (tb), Hilton Jefferson (as), (1:12:13) Wrappin’ It Up 1934 arr.: Fletcher Henderson / solos: Hilton Jefferson (as), Red Allen (tp), Buster Bailey (cl) (1:14:56) Rug Cutter’s Swing 1934 arr.: Horace Henderson / solos: Red Allen (tp), Buster Bailey (cl), Claude Jones (tb), Ben Webster (ts), Keg Johnson (tb), Red Allen (tp)