'Round Midnight

Description

• Composer: Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk
• Arranger: Mike Lewis
• Publisher: Belwin

'Round Midnight is a jazz classic now available in an arrangement correlated to the Jazz Expressions™ curriculum. The focus of this chart is teaching the traditional ballad style to the young player with legato melodic phrases, smooth phrasing articulations, a lyrical solo for 1st alto saxophone (written or ad-lib), and accessible ranges set in a slow swing feel. Optional parts for flute, clarinet, horn, baritone horn, tuba, AND violin, viola and cello. (3:46)