Bill Finegan Komponist / Arrangeur

Lonesome Road (jazz ensemble) Finegan; Bill (arranger) / Arr. Bill Finegan

Titel / Title: Lonesome Road Herausgeber / Publisher: Alfred Music Publications Instrumentation: Jazz Ensemble Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen 0000000

Song of the Volga Boatmen Bill Finegan

Written by Bill Finegan for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, this number is a great example of the arranger's art. He took a simplistic tune (Yo Ho Heave Ho) and turned it into a memorable piece, famous for its central passage of unison Trombones followed four bars later by unison Trumpets repeating the same phrase, both getting ever higher in their ranges, and leading to a huge tut ...