All The Things You Are: Three Jazz Classics by Gwyn Arch

All The Things You Are: Three Jazz Classics by Gwyn Arch

A collection of three jazz standards - "All The Things You Are", "Moonglow" and "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" - all arranged in a vocal cabaret style for accompanied SATB choir.

These sorts of arrangements are all the rage now, particularly with choirs looking for showstoppers for their own Last Choir Standing sort of programmes, and Faber jumps aboard the bandwagon here with its beautifully produced Choral Programme Series, edited by Simon HalseyGwyn Arch has produced some excellent arrangements in the past and these three - All The Things You Are, Moonglow and You are the Sunshine of my Life - are no exception. The first page offers some brief but welcome notes on each piece and an introduction to the 'vocal jazz' style in which these pieces are written. It's a style that has to be very tight to work well, and these pieces will require medium-standard choirs to be at the top of their game to pull them off. The notes, by and large, are pretty straightforward; it is the rhythms that will catch singers out and will need careful work, particularly the offbeat lines in You are the Sunshine. Having said that, it's worth it. The piano parts are a pleasure to play, if not the easiest on the music shelf, and these are slick, entertaining arrangements. I particularly liked the quotation from Au clair de la lune that frames Moonglow. Good fun for all here.

Music Teacher, September 2008

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780571529766
ISBN 10	0571529763
Title	All The Things You Are: Three Jazz Classics
Author	Gwyn Arch
Series	Choral Programme Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber Music Ltd
Year published	2007-08-23
Number of pages	32
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.