Peter Kleine Schaars

The sisters Ruth, Anita and June Pointer from West Oakland in California learned how to sing in the sixties in church where their father was a minister. At the beginning of the 1970s they entered the...

The Pointer Sisters entered the music business at the beginning of the 1970s, where they proved to have a mastery of many styles - including rhythm & blues, jazz, and country. However, they acquired i...

Encourage by his role model, David Bowie, British singersongwriter George Alan O'Dowd reinvented himself as a dazzling and stylishly unique artist known as Boy George. Boy George founded the group Cul...

Encourage by his role model, David Bowie, British singersongwriter George Alan O'Dowd reinvented himself as a dazzling and stylishly unique artist known as Boy George. Boy George founded the group Cul...

Queen Greatest Hits is a veritable feast of fantastic melodies from one of the worlds largest supergroups. Includes: Bohemain Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We W...

In the sixties Frank and Nancy Sinatra had a huge hit with this delightfully titled song. More recently it has been in the charts again with a version by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman. This arrang...

This jazz ballad from 1930 is probably one of the most covered standards of all times. The most famous interpretation dates back from 1960, covered by the one and only Ray Charles. Since then, in 1979...

Peter Kleine Schaars (Deventer, 1962) is a trombone player and staff arranger with the Marine Band of the Royal Dutch Navy . His five part suite 'Nomenclatura' was commissioned by the Band of the Dutc...

From the beginning of the Middle Ages, we have known performance practices in which the duration of the notes can differ from the actual notation. In some cases, binary written melodies were performed...

Here is a blues theme that is being played by all instruments at least one time throughout the composition. Fine accompaniments and a thrilling drum solo complete this composition which is a most valu...

Ray Charles (1930-2004) was a multitalented and pioneering American pianist and soul singer who became very popular in the late fifties, and remained respected for his music in the decades that follow...

Richard Charles Rodgers was one of Americas best-known musicaltheatre composers. In his lifetime Rodgers wrote hundreds of songsand no less than forty Broadway musicals including The Sound of Music, O...

The immortal French song 'Les Feuilles Mortes' (Autumn Leaves) was composed by Joseph Kosma on a text by Jacques Prévert. Kosma worked with Berthold Brecht, Kurt Weil and Hans Eisler in Berlin before...

Here is another fine arrangement by Peter Kleine Schaars (Deventer, 1962) in true big band style of the famous tune composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim. A dialogue between the expressive, classical flute...

For the project 'The Music of Kurt Weill', Peter Kleine Schaars rewrote a number of works by the German composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) for the 'Dreigroschen-Orchester' (an occasional ensemble with th...

In the 1980s and 1990s there was a new surge of interest in the old swing of the 30s and 40s. The epicentre of this swing revival lay in the American state of California, Los Angeles and San Francisco...

In the 1980s and 1990s there was a new surge of interest in the old swing of the 30s and 40s. The epicentre of this swing revival lay in the American state of California, Los Angeles and San Francisco...

Spanish Flea was written by Julius Wechter in 1967 for the famous trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert, who made the number world-famous. Even those who don't know the title by name will be familiar w...

Using themes based on semi-quavers Peter Kleine Schaars has carefully crafted these four contrasting dances for the De Haske Flexible 4 Series. Each of the parts take a turn to play the melody so no p...

Latin ABC is a suite in three movements inspired by the music of the Caribbean. The first movement is a joyful Curaçaon waltz, the second movement a sensual, slow salsa: a style that is popular on the...

In this three-part piece, Peter Kleine Schaars uses the initials of the German concert band association otherwise known as the Bund Deutscher Blasmusikverbände (BDB). With 'B' equating to a B flat, va...

Trio Flex is a clever concept that offers you a range of possible options. As well as a demo version played by live instruments, the online audio contains two play-along tracks for each piece. One tra...

The English female pop/rock singer Joss Stone, who was born in 1987, grew up with American soul and R&B music. Stone's impressive style of singing has depth and conveys emotion. Her unique phrasing an...