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Watermelon Man for Clarinet Quintet & Opt. Drumset # Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets # INTERMEDIATE # Jazz # Herbie Hancock # Keith Terrett # Watermelon Man for Clarinet Qu # Music for all Occasions # SheetMusicPlus
By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by
Keith Terrett. Score, Set of
Parts. 22 pages. Published by
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By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by
Keith Terrett. Score, Set of
Parts. 22 pages. Published by
Music for all Occasions Arranged for Clarinet Quintet & optional drumset, "Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock, first released on his debut album, Takin' Off (1962), in a grooving hard bop version that featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon.
A single of the tune reached the Top 100 of the pop charts. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a latin pop single the next year on Battle Records, where it became a surprise hit, reaching #10 on the pop charts. Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).
Hancock's first version was released as a grooving hard bop record, and featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon. A single reached the Top 100 of the pop chart. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a Latin pop single and it became a surprise hit, reaching No. 10 on the pop chart.[2] Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).
Hancock wrote the piece to help sell his debut album as a leader, Takin' Off (1962), on Blue Note Records; it was the first piece of music he had ever composed with a commercial goal in mind. The popularity of the piece, due primarily to Mongo Santamaría, paid Hancock's bills for five or six years. Hancock did not feel the composition was a sellout however, describing that structurally, it was one of his strongest pieces due to its almost mathematical balance.
The form is a sixteen bar blues. Recalling the piece, Hancock said, "I remember the cry of the watermelon man making the rounds through the back streets and alleys of Chicago. The wheels of his wagon beat out the rhythm on the cobblestones." The tune, based on a bluesy piano riff, drew on elements of R&B, soul jazz and bebop, all combined into a pop hook. Hancock joined bassist Butch Warren and drummer Billy Higgins in the rhythm section, with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone. Hancock's chordal work draws from the gospel tradition, while he builds his solo on repeated riffs and trilled figures.
Hancock filled in for pianist Chick Corea in Mongo Santamaría's band one weekend at a nightclub in The Bronx when Corea gave notice that he was leaving. Hancock played the tune for Santamaría at friend Donald Byrd's urging. Santamaría started accompanying him on his congas, then his band joined in, and the small audience slowly got up from their tables and started dancing, laughing and having a great time. Santamaría later asked Hancock if he could record the tune. On December 17, 1962, Mongo Santamaría recorded a three-minute version, suitable for radio, where he joined timbalero Francisco "Kako" Baster in a cha-cha beat, while drummer Ray Lucas performed a backbeat. Santamaría included the track on his album Watermelon Man (1962). Santamaría's recording is sometimes considered the beginning of Latin boogaloo, a fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with those of R&B
Hancock re-recorded the tune for Head Hunters (1973), combining synthesizers with a Sly Stone and James Brown funk influence, adding an eight-bar section. Hancock described his composition "Chameleon", also from Head Hunters, to Down Beat magazine in 1979: "In the popular forms of funk, which I've been trying to get into, the attention is on the rhythmic interplay between different instruments. The part the Clavinet plays has to fit with the part the drums play and the line the bass plays and the line that the guitar plays. It's almost like African drummers where seven drummers play different parts"; "Watermelon Man" shares a similar construction. A live version was released on the double LP Flood (1975), recorded in Japan.
On the intro and outro of the tune, percussionist Bill Summers blows into beer bottles imitating hindewhu, a style of singing/whistle-playing found in Pygmy music of Central Africa. Hancock and Summers were struck by the sound, which they heard on the ethnomusicology LP, The Music of the Ba-Benzélé Pygmies (1966), by Simha Arom and Geneviève Taurelle.
This version was often featured on The Weather Channel's Local on the 8s segments.
The tune is a jazz standard and has been recorded over two hundred times. Hancock's recording has been sampled in "1-900-LL-Cool-J" from Walking with a Panther (1989) by LL Cool J, "Open Your Eyes" from Organized Konfusion (1991) by Organized Konfusion, "Smoke Some Kill" from Smoke Some Kill (1988) by Schoolly D, and "Pocket Full of Furl" from Uptown 4 Life (1996) by U.N.L.V. In 2003, pianist David Benoit covered the song from his album Right Here, Right Now.
A live and funky performance at the 1999 Montreux Jazz Festival Casino Lights '99 featured Fourplay, George Duke, Boney James and Kirk Whalum trading choruses, and Rick Braun. Louisiana Fairy Tale
Louisiana Fairy Tale # Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets # INTERMEDIATE # Fred Coots J, Haven Gillespie, # Dennis Ruello # (or " # Louisiana Fairy Tale # Chicory Music # SheetMusicPlus
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1268326 Composed by Fred Coots J, Haven Gillespie, and Mitchell Parish. Arranged ...(+)
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1268326 Composed by Fred Coots J, Haven Gillespie, and Mitchell Parish. Arranged by Dennis Ruello. 20th Century,Historic,Jazz,Pop,Standards. 12 pages. Chicory Music #860722. Published by Chicory Music (A0.1268326). Louisiana Fairy Tale (or Louisiana Fairytale) is a song written in 1935 by Haven Gillespie, with lyrics by Mitchell Parish and J. Fred Coots, and was originally popularized by Fats Waller. Waller's version opens with him playing a four-bar solo piano lead-in to a clarinet melody backed by drums, guitar, clarinet, trumpet and piano. A muted trumpet bridge precedes Waller's vocal verses, and a Dixieland-style improvisational instrumental jam closes the recording. This arrangement for Clarinet Quintet (SSSSB) plus optional Acoustic Bass and Drum Set, at the Intermediate Level, is written at a slow swing tempo featuring 1st Clarinet. Jazz Hero: 1st B-flat Clarinet
Jazz Hero: 1st B-flat Clarinet # Clarinet (band part) # BEGINNER # Instructional # George Vincent # Jazz Hero: 1st B-flat Clarinet # Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music # SheetMusicPlus
Jazz Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016201_C1 1st B-flat Clarinet. Composed by George Vincent. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Mu...(+)
Jazz Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016201_C1 1st B-flat Clarinet. Composed by George Vincent. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0016201_C1. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0016201_C1). UPC: 038081380551.Jazz Hero is a level 1 Jazz Beginnings series piece designed for very beginning jazz ensembles using limited ranges and rhythms. Instrumentation includes 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, bass, and drumset. This is playable by a reduced instrumentation which include 2 saxophones, 1 trumpet,1 trombone, piano, bass, and drumset. Optional parts call for 2 flutes, 2 B-flat clarinets, a baritone saxophone, a tuba, a horn in F, baritone T.C./ tenor sax, and guitar. Solos are written out with chord changes and the rhythm section parts are fully notated with guitar chord frames. A Horse with No Name: 1st B-flat Clarinet
A Horse with No Name: 1st B-flat Clarinet # Clarinet (band part) # America # Victor Lopez # A Horse with No Name: 1st B-fl # Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music # SheetMusicPlus
Jazz Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0017163_C1 1st B-flat Clarinet. By America. By Dewey Bunnell. Arranged by Victor Lopez. Jazz; Pop/R...(+)
Jazz Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0017163_C1 1st B-flat Clarinet. By America. By Dewey Bunnell. Arranged by Victor Lopez. Jazz; Pop/Rock. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0017163_C1. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0017163_C1). UPC: 038081379760.A Horse With No Name is part of the Jazz Beginning Series designed for very beginning jazz ensembles using limited ranges and rhythms. Instrumentation includes 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, bass, and drumset. Reduced instrumentation is playable by 2 saxophones, 1 trumpet, 1 trombone, piano, bass and drumset. Optional parts include 2 flutes, 2 B-flat clarinets, baritone saxophone, tuba, horn in F, baritone T.C./tenor sax, and guitar. Solos are written out with chord changes and rhythm section parts are fully notated with guitar chord frames. A Horse with No Name: 2nd B-flat Clarinet
A Horse with No Name: 2nd B-flat Clarinet # Clarinet (band part) # America # Victor Lopez # A Horse with No Name: 2nd B-fl # Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music # SheetMusicPlus
Jazz Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0017163_C2 2nd B-flat Clarinet. By America. By Dewey Bunnell. Arranged by Victor Lopez. Jazz; Pop/R...(+)
Jazz Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0017163_C2 2nd B-flat Clarinet. By America. By Dewey Bunnell. Arranged by Victor Lopez. Jazz; Pop/Rock. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0017163_C2. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0017163_C2). UPC: 038081379760.A Horse With No Name is part of the Jazz Beginning Series designed for very beginning jazz ensembles using limited ranges and rhythms. Instrumentation includes 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, bass, and drumset. Reduced instrumentation is playable by 2 saxophones, 1 trumpet, 1 trombone, piano, bass and drumset. Optional parts include 2 flutes, 2 B-flat clarinets, baritone saxophone, tuba, horn in F, baritone T.C./tenor sax, and guitar. Solos are written out with chord changes and rhythm section parts are fully notated with guitar chord frames. Jazz Hero: 2nd B-flat Clarinet
Jazz Hero: 2nd B-flat Clarinet # Clarinet (band part) # BEGINNER # Instructional # George Vincent # Jazz Hero: 2nd B-flat Clarinet # Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music # SheetMusicPlus
Jazz Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016201_C2 2nd B-flat Clarinet. Composed by George Vincent. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Mu...(+)
Jazz Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016201_C2 2nd B-flat Clarinet. Composed by George Vincent. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0016201_C2. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0016201_C2). UPC: 038081380551.Jazz Hero is a level 1 Jazz Beginnings series piece designed for very beginning jazz ensembles using limited ranges and rhythms. Instrumentation includes 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, bass, and drumset. This is playable by a reduced instrumentation which include 2 saxophones, 1 trumpet,1 trombone, piano, bass, and drumset. Optional parts call for 2 flutes, 2 B-flat clarinets, a baritone saxophone, a tuba, a horn in F, baritone T.C./ tenor sax, and guitar. Solos are written out with chord changes and the rhythm section parts are fully notated with guitar chord frames.