Richardson Community Band

MP3s

Pops Concert, May 2, 2010

Here are recordings of some of the pieces we will play at the Pops Concert. Listen while you read your part or play along. This will help you to be familiar with the piece in general and where your entrances are in particular.

The Nutmeggers March, Eric Osterling
Flags of Freedom, John Philip Sousa
Ben Hur, Miklos Rozsa
Old Macdonald, Leroy Anderson
Deep in the Heart of Texas, June Hershey & Don Swander
God of our Fathers, Thomas Knox
Atlantic City Pageant, John Philip Sousa

Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and rock elements (in varying proportions throughout their career). Their music is demonstrative of high levels of compositional and improvisational skill.

They recorded 15 studio albums from 1971 through 1986. Their biggest seller was the song Birdland from the 1977 album, Heavy Weather. Written by the groups' leader and keyboard player, Joseph Zawinul, Birdland even made the pop charts.

Being one of the groups most frequently associated with both fusion and jazz-rock may be seen as ironic, as Joe Zawinul once said in a Down Beat interview he "did not understand what fusion meant" and Pat Metheny once revealed he and Jaco Pastorius sometimes used to talk about how much they disliked that musical style called "jazz-rock".

Birdland

Joseph Zawinul: Composer, Oberheim Polyphonic, Arp 2600, Acoustic piano, vocal, Melodica

Wayne Shorter: Soprano and tenor saxophone

Jaco Pastorius: Fretless bass, Mandocello, vocals

Alex Acuna: Drums

Manolo Badrena: Tambourine

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