Boogie Beast by Rich Willey arranged by Gordon Goodwin

Description

This chart will have your audiences tapping their feet and nodding their heads from start to finish. Gordon Goodwin has taken this crowd-pleasing tune by Rich and made it into a truly enjoyable musical journey.

Written for five saxophones, five trumpets (solo 5th trumpet part can be played on trumpet or bass trumpet or both, as Rich did in the recording below), four trombones, piano, guitar, bass, drums and added percussionist. There are no doubles for any of the wind instruments in this chart.

The lead trumpet part goes up to a four leger-line G. This tune lies somewhere between Grade 5 and Grade 6, but audiences think it is Grade A. Chart length is 224 written bars, tempo is ♩ = 150 and the score is 26 pages.

Our big band charts are now available only as PDF files for you to print out yourself (at half the price that we used to charge for printed parts).

Upon completion of your order you will receive a download link via an email receipt for your purchase.

Here is how this chart sounds as played by Rich Willey’s Boptism Big Band:

Personnel:

Dan Higgins — 1st Alto Saxophone
Brian Scanlon — 2nd Alto Saxophone
Bob Sheppard — 1st Tenor Saxophone
Jeff Driskill — 2nd Tenor Saxophone
Jay Mason — Baritone Saxophone

Wayne Bergeron — Lead Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Dan Fornero — 2nd Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Rob Schaer — 3rd Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Tony Bonsera — 4th Trumpet & Flugelhorn

Alex Iles — Lead Trombone
Andy Martin — 2nd Trombone
Steve Holtman — 3rd Trombone
Bill Reichenbach — Bass Trombone

Wally Minko — Keyboards
Andrew Synowiec — Guitar
Edwin Livingston — Bass
Peter Erskine — Drums
Joey DeLeon — Percussion

Recorded January 3rd, 2019, Conway Studios, Los Angeles, CA, engineered by Tommy Vicari

Gordon Goodwin & Rich Willey

Photo by Angela Fornero