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RED JACKET MAKES IT TEN!
The latest album developed by Red Jacket, HIT MEN on EMI CLASSICS, spent two weeks in the TOP 15 on the recent classical midline charts (peaking at #13). This makes it ten different music labels that Red Jacket has gotten on the printed Billboard charts. Congratulations EMI and the Red Jacket team!
Stars & Stripes roars up to NUMBER 2!
After debuting at a solid #10, the album continued its trajectory by zooming up the charts to grab the NUMBER 2 position on Billboard's Classical Traditional chart. The popular album also enjoyed the #4 and #5 positions in over a month of sales excitement and chart activity. The album has been in the TOP 10 for 5 WEEKS!
Perfectly timed around FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS - making it the perfect summer-time listening album.
This is the highest chart position ever attained by Canadian Brass in thier forty year history making recording career.
Congratulations Canadian Brass (& Red Jacket) - well done!
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Cool video of the Canadian Brass in action
Just in time for the summer season when we celebrate and honor America – Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Fathers Day, Independence Day - the Canadian Brass, our friendly neighbors to the north honor America with their new CD, Stars & Stripes - Canadian Brass Salute America. Available now!
The album is pure Americana and features the Brass playing classic patriotic tunes that will impress and enthrall. For the first time ever, Canadian Brass is joined by a battery of percussion, featuring members of Nexus, the world renowned percussion ensemble from Toronto. Highlights include the title track by Sousa and the famous march National Emblem by E.E. Bagley as well as the five military anthems, two versions of the Star Spangled Banner (an early version from 1814 and todays "classic" version) and a bevy of famous tunes that everyone knows from the American Songbook - from Shenandoah, George M. Cohan favorites, The Batle Hymn of the Republic and America The Beautiful. The arrangements are all new to the Canadian Brass catalog and will be part of their concerts for years to come. As a special bonus track, the percussionists perform The Drums of Liberty which drumming enthusiasts will love and put a spring in everyones step. Who could resist!
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Terrence London is our local cultural historian and beat writer.
Summer time means a different brand of music 
For me ‘tis the season of marches, patriotic fare and good old Americana and of course the town band is the best example of the summer musical ensemble – lots of brass, woodwinds and plenty of percussion. So break out the iced tea and lemonade, get lost in your spider web of cotton candy and enjoy a few hot dogs – it’s summer time.
A short list of summer time favorites:
John Philip Sousa – Stars & Stripes Forever, Sempre Fidelis, Washington Post, Manhattan Beach, King Cotton, El Capitan, The Liberty Bell - need I go further?
Concerts in the Park – In the summer I’m a band guy, though I appreciate orchestras and even a Broadway musical under the stars - it’s band music that fits perfectly with summer nights complete with a band box stuffed with an assorted array of wind instruments and a crowd, with folding chair or blanket in hand and perhaps a small bottle of vintage in tow, there to enjoy a night of music as twilight brings down the curtain on another glorioius day.
Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posey, Molly on the Shore, Irish Tune from County Derry and Country Gardens to start – dished up in concert band versions all, of course.
Minor League Baseball – there something still rather innocent and simply nice about going to your local minor league park and cheering on the boys of summer. Sure, the major leagues have the big stars (and that may be the problem!) – but with the minor leagues, the games the thing. Beside, for just a few bucks you can get a great seat, grab a beer and have fun at the game. Plus you’ll be supporting your local team and what’s so bad about that! Go Team Go!
Karl King – if only for Barnum & Bailey’s Favorites. If Sousa is the March King, then Karl King, the inspiration for The Music Man, is the Circus March King.
Reading on the Beach – 1. get a book, the more the “guilty pleasure” the better. 2. grab a chair, the lower to the ground the better. 3. Find a beach and as they say on Coney Island - plotz. Yes that's right - in three easy steps you can enjoy one of the great pleasures of all-time. Lazing the day away near Mother ocean, tootsies in the sand and of course, diving head first into a favorite book. Oooh-Aahhh. (oh yes, don’t forget the sunblock!)
EE Bagley's National Emblem. A march with one of the best low brass parts ever written.
Shostakovich's Festive Overture which was originally written for the Bolshoi Theatre on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution. The opening brass fanfare is memorable as is the rapid "up and down the staircase” clarinet part!
July 2010
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