ALL THAT JAZZ!!!!

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Has anyone ever played in a jazz group on French horn? I was at the Reno Jazz Festival last year and I saw one group that had a horn soloist. It was pretty cool to listen to.
Or even in a solo piece?
In brass ensemble at my school, we're playing "Basin Street Blues," which has a pretty cool horn part in it.

granny
(85 points)

I regularly attend the Jim Knapp orchestra, a jazz orchestra with a virtuoso horn player, Tom Varner. I enjoy the orchestra and the French horn. But, I have to say that the Horn does more for jazz than jazz does for the horn. In other words: the horn adds a beautiful warm sound to jazz, but the jazz horn solos aren't as enjoyable to me as traditional horn solos. Jazz just doesn't bring out the best in a horn, in my opinion. HOWEVER, there's a CD out called THE LONDON HORN SOUND that has a couple of absolutely beautiful jazz horn choir numbers on it. If you ever get a chance to hear or purchase this CD you'll never regret it. It's about the most amazing horn playing I've ever heard.
Valerie in Tacoma BTW, Mormhorn, I've gotten a couple of notices that you are trying to contact me privately, but for some technical reason, the messages aren't coming through.

FhornSteve
(21 points)

I play in my school's Jazz Combo C and Jazz Ensemble on french horn. :] It's super fun... I've heard a beautiful recording of a jazz brass ensemble's version of "Over The Rainbow"... Look up Dallas Brass on MySpace. Over The Rainbow by them has a BEAUTIFUL french horn solo at the beginning, and an amazing jazz swing solo at the end. Very breath taking.

corofatl
(10 points)

Granny is right about the london sound, awesome disk.

I played with my university's Big Band on a latin tune. It was some of the most intense practicing I ever did. The parts were fast and it took some time to get used to the scales used, but it was a lot of fun. I also rehearsed an arrangement of Star Dust for solo horn with a brass ensemble, but never performed it.

Varner has some CDs, I think. Tom Bacon also has a jazz albumn called 'flipside' pretty good.

There are several Jazz suites/arrangements for brass quintet, some are good, some are cheese.

granny
(85 points)

Well.... old dogs CAN learn new tricks. I loved the American Horn Quartet CD so much I decided to order some of those jazzy pieces from Lowel Shaw, the NYC horn player who has written so many wonderful things for horn ensembles including a lot of the stuff on the American Horn Quartet CD. His duets are called "Bipperies"; his trios are called "Tripperies"; and his quartets are called "Fripperies." [I don't know if he has Quipperies or not.] Anyway, the first time I tried to play them with my more experienced horn playing friends, they just left me sitting in the dust. I couldn't read a note. They were SO hard at first. But, after taking a long time to work on them very slowly with a metronome, I finally started to get the hang of it. Now when I get together with my horn playing friends to play Bipperies & Tripperies, I do pretty well keeping up. They are really fun. If you want to look into some of these, Google "Lowell Shaw." You'll find his website. His books are very reasonably priced & the music is GREAT!
Valerie, come back horn plahing granny

ALL THAT JAZZ!!!!

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