Edition: Jazz Big Band Arrangement with Vocal

Description: Swing - Difficult

Publisher: Jazz at Lincoln Center

Jazz for Kids is a perfect representation of another timeless adage: "jazz is life." There is seriousness in the fun, and there is joy in the seriousness. Music is at its most powerful when it makes one feel connected with the past, and Jazz for Kids breathes new life into songs we think we’ve known forever. It shows how jazz can elevate even the most minuscule events in life. Jazz for Kids takes simple folk songs and nursery rhymes and turns them into something that you never saw coming.

The Wheels on the Bus becomes much more than a simple children's singalong for bus rides, as its composer, Verna Hills, intended. Both sophisticated and fun, The Wheels on the Bus becomes both an epic reflection of and metaphor for the unlimited possibilities within reach—in music and in life—if we keep an open mind. And practice.

from the liner notes by Joe Alterman

Full Score
Vocal
2 Alto Saxophones
2 Tenor Saxophones (Tenor Sax 1 Doubles Clarinet)
Baritone Saxophone
4 Trumpets
3 Trombones
Piano
Bass
Drums

Vocal keys: C, Db, Bb
Trumpet 1: D6
Trombone 1: Bb4