Alto Sax Sheet Music for Uptown Funk
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Uptown Funk
Uptown Funk is a song by English record producer Mark Ronson featuring American singer Bruno Mars. The track was released on 10 November 2014 as the lead single from Ronson’s fourth studio album, Uptown Special.
Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson is an English musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has won six Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year in 2015 and Song of the Year in 2018 for “Uptown Funk”. He is best known for his collaborations with artists such as Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Adele, Lily Allen, Robbie Williams, Queens of the Stone Age, and Bruno Mars. Ronson’s analog-based soul and funk revivals have led him to be referred to as a “retro futurist”.
Bruno Mars
Alto Sax Sheet Music for Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars
“Uptown Funk” is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars for his fourth studio album, Uptown Special (2015). The song was released as the album’s lead single on November 10, 2014. Jeff Bhasker and Mark Ronson produced “Uptown Funk”. Ronson wrote the song with its performers: Mars, Bhasker and Philip Lawrence. Bruno Mars, Ronson, Bhasker and Nicholas Williams are also credited as the song’s songwriters. “Uptown Funk” is grossly influenced by James Brown and George Clinton’s music from the 1970s. The song pay tribute to several past funk acts such as Zapp, Morris Day and the Time and Cameo.
The success of “Uptown Funk” has been attributed to its composition and catchy hook. Rolling Stone ranked it first on their year-end list of the 100 best songs of 2014. Time included it as one of their top ten songs of the year; Pitchfork Media also ranked it number one on their annual Top 100 list in 2015. In June 2015, Billboard proclaimed it “the longest-running No. 1 hit in the history of the Hot 100”. It became only the second single ever to top both Billboard’s Hot 100 Airplay chart for 12 weeks and their Hot 100 Recurrents chart for 18 weeks; Matchbox Twenty’s “Push” was first in 1996–1997.
Saxophone
Alto Sax Sheet Music for Uptown Funk – (Alto Sax Sheet Music for Uptown Funk). Arranged by Michael Sweeney. For Concert Band Folio. Instrumental Books. Jazz, funk, pop. Grade 2. Score and parts. 36 pages. Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.8725191).
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Sheet Music
Alto Sax Sheet Music for Uptown Funk – This is the sheet music for the alto saxophone part of Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars.
Uptown Funk Alto Sax Sheet Music
“Uptown Funk” is a song by British record producer Mark Ronson featuring American singer and rapper Bruno Mars, released as the lead single on 4 January 2015 from Ronson’s fourth studio album, Uptown Special (2015). The song was written by Ronson, Mars, Jeff Bhasker, and Philip Lawrence. The track was produced by Ronson and Bhasker. It is heavily influenced by funk music of the 1970s and 1980s, referred to as “boogie-funk”, and contains a prominent sample of “More Bounce to the Ounce” (1980) by Zapp. Due to the use of the sample, Bridgeport Music were credited as co-writers for the song.
The song peaked at number one in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States; it became Mars’ second US number-one single after “Just the Way You Are” in 2010. Globally, it was 2013’s seventh best-selling single with sales of 8.3 million copies. In October 2014,”Uptown Funk” enteredBillboard’s Hot 100 at number 37 and has since peaked at number one; it became Mars’ fourth US number one single as a solo artist on 19 January 2015 (he previously topped Billboard’s Hot 100 Songs chart with “Locked Out of Heaven”, “Just the Way You Are”,and “When I Was Your Man”). As of April 2015,”Uptown Funk” has sold 6.2 million copies in the United States. The song won two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
The song has been parodied or featured in television shows such as Saturday Night Live (SNL),South Park and Awkward.; The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Lip Sync Battle; films such as Spy (); animated series such as Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness(); commercials such as for Beats by Dr. Dre headphones ()and Honda Odyssey Minivan ().
