{"id":232,"date":"2010-05-09T02:26:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2023-03-26T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T14:58:57","slug":"armed-forces-medley-for-big-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Armed Forces Medley for Big Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xVRwZ99_x30?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2006 I was commissioned to write an arrangement of all the U.S. armed forces themes into a medley for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slvbigband.com\/\">San Luis Valley Big Band<\/a>.&nbsp; I always enjoy doing things like this, taking non-jazz tunes and putting them into a jazz context.&nbsp; I had also done this with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adams.edu\/\">Adams State College<\/a> alma mater back when I taught music there (2000-2003).&nbsp; ASC is located in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Luis_Valley\">San Luis Valley<\/a>, which is my connection with this group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the above YouTube video to hear the San Luis Valley Big Band play through my arrangement.&nbsp; The SLV Big Band started up after I moved from the area, so I never was personally involved with them.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve never been to this part of southern Colorado, it&#8217;s a beautiful part of the country, but pretty rural and towns are relatively far away from each other.&nbsp; I&#8217;m very impressed that the SLV Big Band has gotten 17 jazz musicians in the area to commit to getting together frequently enough to put together a big band like this.&nbsp; Kudos to the SLV Big Band!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve gotten a couple of inquiries from band leaders looking for an arrangement like this and wondering how they can get it.\u00a0 While I&#8217;m always willing to do business personally, what I need to do is get a high quality recording done of this arrangement so I can get it published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2006 I was commissioned to write an arrangement of all the U.S. armed forces themes into a medley for the San Luis Valley Big Band.&nbsp; I always enjoy doing things like this, taking non-jazz tunes and putting them into a jazz context.&nbsp; I had also done this with the Adams State College alma &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armed Forces Medley for Big Band<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition","category-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}