Maria Schneider's music has been hailed by critics as evocative, majestic, magical, heart-stoppingly gorgeous, and beyond categorization. She and her orchestra became widely known starting in 1994 whe...
'Bodysnatchers' was released in 2007 on Radiohead's In Rainbows album. Fred Sturm's powerful arrangement captures the raw passion of Radiohead's version with unique harmonic variations, textural manip...
Composer Fred Sturm has written a wonderful and exciting shuffle tune which features tenor saxophone, trumpet and drums. The heavy shuffle feel moves to a half-time feel, then into a stop-time section...
Inspired by the 1948 Coleman Hawkins' unaccompanied solo improvisation 'Picasso'. In his 1912 publication The Beginnings of Cubism, avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire defined cubism as the art of...
Quick 2-Beat. Ferdinand LaMenthe Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers recorded Black Bottom Stomp in 1926 with an instrumentation of trumpet, clarinet, trombone, piano, banjo, bass, and drums. Re...
Based on a traditional Native American song, Fred Sturm has created a truly amazing masterpiece capturing the beauty of the melody with the intricacies and creativity of a big band. Set in 15/8, this...
As recorded on Libertango ! Hommage to Astor Piazzolla by the HR Big Band (Germany), this arrangement will surely lift your audiences out of their seats. It features a main soloist of your choice (ori...
'Cliffe Hangin' was scored so that it can be performed by three experienced trombonists (parts 1-3) and four beginning-level trombonists (parts 4-7). Conductors are welcome to assign multiple performe...
From the musical Wonderful Town.
