I need some easy jazz songs that still sound good. The whole reason I got a trumpet was to participate in my schools jazz band and that I always wanted to play a brass instrument. I tried the entertainer and maple leaf rag but they have to many low-to-high-note-instantly transitions and I can't do that yet. (I can do that on my clairenet.) I would prefer something by Scott Joplin. Thanks!

Keep working on The Entertainer and Maple Leaf Rag. Remember that anytime a note is too high for you, you can always play it down an octave. The book/CD combo Jazz Bossa Novas (Jamey Aebersold Volume 31) has 11 songs, only one of which goes above staff. It would give you some good material to work on. If your local music store doesn't have it in stock, it's available from:
Jamey Aebersold Jazz, Inc.
P.O. Box 1244
New Albany, IN 47151-1244
Phone: 1-800-456-1388
Website: www.jazzbooks.com

The price printed on my copy (which I've had for a couple of years) is $14.90. For what it includes, $1.35 per song isn't bad at all.





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The titles included are: The Girl From Ipanema, Meditation, Wave, Quiet Night of Quiet Stars, Desafinado, Once I Loved, How Insensitive, Little Boat, Summer Samba, and One Note Samba.

BTW. There are ten songs instead of eleven. The 11th track on the CD is tuning notes.

the one song that a seventh grade band played is bluesville by Eric Osterling the lowest note is a c below the staff and has one note that is an high e flat in the staff if you want the first trumpet part e mail me at bandchick201013@aol.com

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also there is rockin roben (sp), in a mellow tone by duke ellington , bad attitude by michael sweeney, route 66 by billy troup i have some of the songs but not all of the parts but we played them in middle school jazz band

I played lead trumpet in my High School Jazz Band and most songs ranged up to high E or high F above the staff, but there was one song that had a good solo trumpet part called "All Blues" by Miles Davis, the written part I had didnt go above a D or E in the staff if i remember correctly. We also played "The Girl From Imponema" and I dont think the melody of it goes above the staff if I remember right.