Giannini Brass

recordings

Giannini Brass CDs are available from CD Baby and i-Tunes.

Swingle Bells

Swingle Bells features swinging jazz settings of Holiday and Christmas classics. This is a live recording made at concerts Dec 2010 and 2011 at the James A. Gray., Jr. Auditorium at Old Salem Museum and Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC.
Arrangements of Swingle Bells charts, except the Vince Guaraldi selections, are by Roger Pemberton. A well-known arranger and saxophonist, Roger Pemberton was the Jazz Artist in Residence at the University of South Carolina for several years. Roger has recorded with many artists, including Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, and Les Hooper. For many years, he was the arranger and a studio musician for the Merv Griffin television show in New York.

Release Date: 2012

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Summertime
A collection of favorites from summer pops concerts, this recording captures the essnce of the old-fashioned Main street band. A sampler of Patriotic, Broadway, jazz and Dixieland.

Release Date: 2008

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Big Shot Brass
The debut CD of the critically acclaimed brass group contains something for everyone. A little bit of Broadway, Dixieland, Light Classical, and Patriotic.

Release Date: 1996

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Mit Freuden Zart (With Tender Joy)
The Giannini Brass releases the premiere recording of Vol. 1 of the historic Moravian Chorales which have been performed for over 150 years at special events and services for the Moravian Church.

Genre: Classical: Traditional
Release Date: 2003

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Christmas With the Giannini Brass
Holiday favorites performed in a flashy, brassy style. The CD includes traditional favorites performed like a Christmas sing-along, as well as Contemporary Christian, pop, and jazz arrangements. Some of our fans listen to this CD year-round.

Genre: Classical: Traditional
Release Date: 1997

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Baroque Banquet
Greatest hits of the Baroque, with dazzling brass. All-time favorites, such as Handel's Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music. Popular wedding favorites such as Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary.

Genre: Classical: Traditional
Release Date: 2004

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When Bill Vernon was playing in Giannini Brass, we set up a session in Asheville to make a recording with his brother Charlie, the legendary bass trombonist of the Chicago Symphony. When we got to the church, we had to call a piano tuner and it took so long waiting for a tuning, that we did not have time to fix some rough spots (and, the piano never quite got totally tuned). Charlie bought everyone veggie Not Dogs at the YMCA and we had a good time hanging out.

Unreleased Recording - "Three Jazz Ballads"
I'm Getting Sentimental - Round Midnight - Blue Skies
Recorded: 1992, First Baptist Church, Asheville, NC
Charles Vernon: tenor and bass trombone solo

Charles Vernon, tenor and bass trombone
Mark Clodfelter, trumpet
Ken Wilmot, trumpet
Joe Mount, horn
Bill Vernon, trombone
David Nicholson, tuba
Steve Kirkman, drums
Ken Rhodes, piano
Eliot Wadopian, bass

Original arrangement for trombone and orchestra by Thomas Matta
Reduction for quintet and rhythm section by Roger Pemberton
NC Engineer: Steve Blake