Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra

Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra

by terje Orchestral Music

Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra is being composed. You can listen to the first two movements below.

Composer: Terje Berg-Hansen
Composed: October 2019 –

Individual Movements

Movement I

Movement II

Nu Skiffle Brigade

by terje Popular Music

Nu Skiffle Brigade (NSB) was a fun project I did entirely on my own and which resulted in a CD – Step Out! – that was released in 2006. Most of the recordings were however done in 2002-2004.

Here are the tunes on the CD:

01 – Stepping out with Dinah

This tune contains samples from the recording of “Dinah” by the Mills Brothers and Bing Crosby in the 1930s as well as a sample of Dizzy Gilespie’s voice from his tune “Jump Dideli-Ba”. The rest is all me.

02 – Happy Days Skiffle

Contains samples from an early recording of “Happy Days are Here Again” as well as a sample of Cab Calloway scatting from a recording of the song “Jumping Jive”

03 – One Little Kiss

Sung by “Ukulele Ike”, who’s real name was Cliff Edwards, and who later shape-shifted into Jiminy Cricket singing “When you wish upon a star” every Christmas.

04 – Mississippi Mud

This must be the least political correct tribute to black American music ever made by white musicians. Still, it is a tribute, and that’s how I interpret it. I added quite a few instruments and percussion, plus a steel drum solo part.

05 – Flat Foot Floogie

“Satchmo” Luis Armstrong with the Mills Brothers from the early 1930s. Satchmo’s trumpet solo was a bit short, so I sacrilegiously added a bit of trumpet myself, in the middle of it …