Thrive 'n' Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet
Electrify your trumpet duet library with Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet.
Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet
Thrive ‘n’ Jive Jazz Trumpet Duet is an intermediate composition for two trumpets in the swing style. It was originally composed as a birthday gift to one of our students.
The trumpet duet has two main themes and then goes to a call and response section based on the first theme. If you are familiar with my other duets, then you may have seen these call and response sections in other duets. Both trumpet players take turns playing “calls” between each of the “responses”.
Thrive ‘n’ Jive is probably one of my grooviest trumpet duets and we hope you enjoy working on it and playing it with your trumpet friends.
The key signature for Thrive ‘n’ Jive is two flats, but the key is a C blues. I guess you can say that it’s a dorian blues, even though there aren’t any standard 12 bar blues progressions in the piece.
I don’t often use a blues scale in my writing (or in my improve for that matter). I use what I would call “blues language” instead. When I’m choosing a key signature for a piece, I look at the language and decide from that. If I wrote from the blues scale, then it would be essentially writing from the key. The musical thought comes first, and then the music theory follows.
