Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty) (Concert Band)

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"Baker Street" is a single by the Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released in February 1978. It won the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically and reached the top three in the UK, US and elsewhere. The song is known for its famous saxophone riff, written by Rafferty and performed by Raphael Ravenscroft, often performed by buskers worldwide, due to its attention-grabbing octave leaps. Rafferty wrote "Baker Street" while trying to extricate himself from his previous band, Stealers Wheel; he was regularly travelling between his family home in Paisley, Scotland, and London, where he often stayed at a friend's flat on Baker Street in Marylebone. Billboard magazine described the famous 8-bar saxophone solo as "the most recognizable sax riff in pop music history"; it is said to have been responsible for a resurgence in the sales of saxophones and their use in mainstream pop music and television advertising. This fresh arrangement for concert band, inspired by a jazz ensemble chart by Dave Wolpe, gives the sax the starring role, with an ad lib section later on; your band and audience are certain to enjoy this fabulous slice of Seventies rock. THIS SCORE VIDEO IS PRESENTED IN SOUNDING PITCH.

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