A ballad featuring lead alto sax, this lovely tune is based on the form and changes of the well known standard 'The Midnight Sun Will Never Set.' Written in 2016 for the Salt Lake City Phoenix Jazz Ba...
Trombone ensemble piece written for 10 trombones. Two groups of 5 = l alto trombone, 3 tenor bones and 1 bass bone. No rhythm. The piece is approx. 10 to 12 minutes.
Though written in 1917 by Art Hickman in the ragtime era, it became immensely popular as a swing standard after the 1939 recording by Benny Goodman and his sextet which also featured (for the first ti...
Wake Up To A Melody is a gorgeous gospel styled ballad featuring tenor sax. The lyrical and gentle melody is supported with lush warm harmonies simply scored in moderate ranges for all instruments; th...
This trumpet feature ballad is a jazz tone poem written in memory of Ashley Alexander and inspired by the last movement of Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss. An expressive meditation, the s...
Style: Fusion. Instrumentation: 5 Saxes: 1 Soprano sax and Flute, 2 Alto Sax and Flute, 3 Tenor and Soprano sax, 4 Tenor and Flute, 5 Bari (no doubles). 5 trumpets (5th on Flugelhorn). 5 Trombones,Gui...
One of Debussy's impressionist masterworks for solo piano, this arrangement/transcription remains faithful to the form and harmonic structure of the lofty dance in ¾ (Debussy notated it in 9/8). The c...
This Samba is the second chart I wrote for Ashley Alexander following Super Frank. Like Super Frank, it has a well-defined 32 bar head and inventive ensemble interactions with the trombone soloist. Iv...