Air Moving. This is simply one of the most beautiful tunes I’ve ever heard, by Kathryn Tickell, the brilliant Northumbrian pipes player. She gave me permission to arrange it for trombone quartet so here it is. The original tune is published by Not Them Again/Purple Patch publications.
Here is the trombone and piano version of Air Moving, also arranged for trombone quartet elsewhere on this site. To do both versions I acquired the kind permission of the composer, Kathryn Tickell, who wrote it for her renowned band of Northumbrian pipes, violin, accordian and guitar.
Encores are too long. This one is a minute and a half but there are a lot of notes. Mostly in 5, it’s a bombastic zoom up and down various arpeggios, always tongue-in-cheek (which makes it a lot harder to play). For use as the encore to the recital for which it was written (as is the case here), before…
So Bombasticity it is. It is a feeble, trombone-like made up word, it doesn’t say Love and Peace, and it doesn’t mean what I thought it might have done even if it was a word! But it has the hook, and if I made it up, it means what I want it to: just a bit of a swashbuckle.
Four old favourites: Tiptoe thru the Tulips; Yes Sir, That's my Baby; My Mammy, and Me and My Shadow, that sit perfectly for trombone quartet. In fact the trombone is in this context more variable than the voice. Can you sing a pedal F?
The hook here, and hence the title, is two repeated notes, with which the whole band joins in several times, and maybe the audience/street-liners after the end as well.
This is very much another walk, like my ‘Winter Walk’ piece. And it is similar to that piece in some ways, though when writing this I was thinking of a day my wife and I spent walking between Craster and Dunstanburgh Castle, on the Northumbrian coast. It was sunny and lightly breezy, lovely conditions, and the North Sea was very…
This was originally a ‘chops break’ piece for Bones Apart, a simple tune that would be sparing on the embouchure and would therefore be a valuable asset in a concert programme. But though it’s short (3 minutes) and has only simple slow notes in it, I discovered having finished it that the ideal chops break is in fact called a…
