The Passing of a Jazz Giant

Jazz giant Freddie Hubbard passed away yesterday from complications of a November heart attack. A vital link in the jazz trumpet lineage that included Clifford Brown and Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard was in his prime in the late 60s and early 70s. Along with his contemporary Woody Shaw, Hubbard blazed the trail of hard bop, fusion and jazz/rock. He took a decided turn toward more crossover music in the 80s and fell off of the mainstream jazz radar. In the late 80s and 90s he returned more to his jazz roots and, although hampered by chop problems, still managed to convey and communicate his jazz soul.

Stanton’s is proud to carry several wonderful publications dedicated to Freddie’s music. They include Volume 60 of the Jamey Aebersold series and a publication from Hal Leonard’s Artist Transcription series.

We’ll miss you, Freddie!

Kjos Publishing Releases Volume 2 of Festival Ensembles

Festival Ensembles Volume 2 has just been release from Kjos publications and could be of useful help in finding the right combination of instrumentation for mixed ensembles.  There are 15 Medium-Easy arrangements for any combination of Instruments.  It correlates with Book 2 of the highly successful Standard of Excellence band method by Bruce Pearson, Chuck Elledge and Dean Sorenson.  Mix and match for Flute (w29fl), Bb Clarinet (w29cl), Eb Alto Clarinet (w29CLE), Oboe (w29OB), Alto/Bari Sax (w29XE), Tenor Sax (w29XB), Trumpet (w29TP), Trbn/Baritone BC/Bassoon (w29BC),Electric Bass (w29EBS), Horn (w29HF), Baritone TC (w29TC), Tuba (w29BS), Mallet Perc (w29MP), Drums/percussion/Aux (w29PR), and Conductor Score (w29F).  Click on the links above to go the details page of each book on the Stanton’s Sheet Music website.

Update: Twilight Sheet Music

 

Stanton’s is pleased to announce the release of the piano solo book for Twilight: The Score, music composed by Carter Burwell. We have plenty in stock, available for you local Columbus-ians to pick up or ready to be shipped out to wherever you are.  

I’ve checked out some of the ‘free’ versions of Bella’s Lullaby you can find online that are transcribed by the movie fans out there, and I can say that while some of them sound quite good, many are riddled with errors in the rhythm or the chords, or both. They may sound close, but I would recommend getting the real thing if you want to play it and mean it. The book is just 14.99 and you get the nice glossy covered book with artwork and these 11 titles:

Bella’s Lullaby

Dinner With His Family

Edward At Her Bed

I Dreamt Of Edward

I Would Be The Meal

In Place Of Someone You Love

The Lion Fell In Love With The Lamb

Phascination Phase

Stuck Here Like Mom

Tracking

Who Are They?

 

Check back soon because in mid-January, the Piano/Vocal/Guitar book that includes songs by Paramore, Linkin Park, Muse, as well as many others, will be released.   The songlist for this book is below:

Carter Burwell – Bella’s Lullaby
Paramore – Decode
The Black Ghosts – Full Moon
Paramore – I Caught Myself
Linkin Park – Leave Out All The Rest
Mute Math – Spotlight (Twilight Remix)
Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
Collective Soul – Tremble For My Beloved

Upcoming Ohio Music Educators Association

Stanton’s Sheet Music will have several booths at the Ohio Music Educators Association conference, coming up January, 15th – 17th, 2009.  The OMEA conference moves between 3 cities every year, Columbus, Cleveland & Cincinnati.  This years conference will be held at the Columbus Convention center, located on High Street, in downtown Columbus.  Stanton’s will be sponsoring and hosting several events throughout the conference, including Michael and Jill Gallina’s general music sessions, ASTA orchestra reading session and the big  jazz reading session, held in the Hyatt Regency atrium on Thursday night.  Stanton’s is looking forward to seeing our friends and look forward to meeting new ones.   Hope to see you there.

Jazz Education Network at the 2008 Midwest Band & Orchestra Conference

Ben and Mary Jo

The cold, Chicago winter wind was blowing outside the Palmer House but you would never know it sitting inside the hotel ballroom last Friday afternoon. The exciting vibe of the first membership forums of the Jazz Education Network warmed the meetings taking place under the leadership of JEN president, Mary Jo Papich.

Mary Jo took the opportunity to introduce the dozens of people who have been instrumental in the birth of JEN and passed the mike to several people including jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer, Kahil El’Zabar. His truly inspiring message stressing the incredible importance of jazz education in today’s society was moving to all who heard it.

The interest and motivation of members was obvious given the number and tone of questions asked at the forum. Seasoned educators, performers and industry members were side by side with people new to the cause of jazz education. Papich solicited ideas from the audience to be discussed and considered by the board. Discussion at the meeting included the new JEN website, adroitly designed and maintained by Steve Crissinger of 12-Point Graphics, the organization’s official publication JazzEd and the possibility of future JEN Conventions.

Stanton’s Sheet Music is proud to be a Charter Corporate Member of JEN and is pleased to have Jazz Education Consultant, Ben Huntoon on the JEN “Network with an Expert” panel. Stanton’s Sheet Music is also pleased to host the website for the Jazz Education Connection of Ohio.

Stanton’s Upcoming Church Music Reading Session

Once again, we are coming up on the Stanton’s Church Music Reading session, January 10th, 2009.  The clinic will be held at it’s usual place, The Otterbein College Battelle Fine Arts Center.  Attending this clinic is a fantastic way for you to choose new church anthems for your choir and be able to hear the music read live at the clinic.  This January’s clinicians will be Stanton’s own Judy Henry and James Strouse.  The registration will be $20.00 and each registrant will receive a free packet of the clinic pieces that will be read.   Please feel free to contact a Stanton’s at 1-800-42-MUSIC and speak with choral staff member for the details of the event.  We look forward to seeing you at 8:30 for coffee and doughnuts followed by a wonderful morning of singing!

Stanton’s Attends the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic

Several key members of the Stanton’s staff flew to Chicago this week to attend the Mid-West band clinic. The new JEN (Jazz Education Network) organization was in Chicago meeting with jazz arrangers, artists, publishers, dealers and board members to discuss the new beginings of the organiztion. Many of the country’s sheet music publishers & suppliers are in attendance also, which gave Stanton’s a chance to talk the issues of today affecting the music publishing & retail business. Meetings with FJH, Alfred, Barnhouse, Lorenz, Hal Leonard, Carl Fischer, Kendor, and many other publisher’s, yeilded new ideas that can be taken into the future of the business. Another great aspect of attending Mid-west is the chance of meeting with composers and arrangers. Ed Huckeby, Robert W. Smith, James Swearingen, Paul Lavender, Mike Story, Sean O’Loughlin, Larry Clark, Jeff Jarvis, Samuel Hazo, Brian Balmages, Timothy Loest, Robert Sheldon, John O’Reilly, Eric Osterling, Andrew Glover, are just the few that we were able to have a chance to say “hello” to. Next year’s convention will be moved to the McCormick Center in Chicago and will leave the historical downtown Hilton’s facility in order to grow it’s event into the future. Thank you for the opportunity to be involved in such an important event.

New Real Book CD’s Just Released

The Real Book, Play-Along

Ok…how many times have you heard someone say, ”this is the best thing since sliced bread”?  Well,  THIS IS THE BEST THING SLICED BREAD!  The Hal Leonard Company has really done it this time!  They just released play-along recordings for the famous Real Book, Vol. 1.  They’ve broken up the recordings alphabetically into 4 separate volumes which each contain 3 CDs.  Each volume, containing 40 tunes, costs $24.95.  That’s right!!!  40 kickin’ play-along tracks for $24.95!!!  These are not sterile sounding tracks but energetic recordings including intros and codas you would hear on gigs.  There are a number of recordings included that have never been on jazz play along before.  These four volumes are well worth the investment for pros and students alike.  Also, the word on the street is that volume 2 is in the works.

Volume 1 A – D     $24.95

Volume 2 E – K     $24.95

Volume 3 L – R     $24.95

Volume 4 S – Z     $24.95

General Music Classroom Resources

These past few months has given Stanton’s a chance to see what are some of the stand out General Music titles that have been selling very well this past fall school year.  Many of the products have been teacher resources, recorder collections, and theory products that were featured on our August reading session.  Here are some of our favorite products that have proven to be our best sellers.

Around The Music Room in 180 days

101 Music Activities

Programs a Plenty

Big B.A.G. Book for Recorder

The Music Zone

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Herr Beethoven!

I had a professor in college who used to interpret all of music history in reference to the life of Beethoven: “How old was Beethoven when Schubert composed ‘Der Erlkönig’?” 45.

He must live for days like this.

You would be hard pressed to find a musician unwilling to acknowledge Beethoven’s role in the development of modern music. He was one of the greatest composers of symphonies, piano sonatas, string quartets, mandolin music, composer of the first true song cycle (An die ferne Geliebte), a lover of yellow soap, and notorious thrower of food.

Today is also the 235th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. So, brew yourself a cup of Earl Grey or some Li Shan oolong, listen to Fritz Wunderlich perform “Auf dem Hügel sitz ich spähend” and wish Mr. Beethoven a happy birthday, because without him many of us would not have jobs.