Ryan Haines

Beautiful, contemporary 12/8 feel, featuring solo bone and tenor sax. 4 flugels with saxes on unison flutes at beginning. Solos begin with a semi-free feel that can be opened up. Unison trumpet soli o...

Thoroughly developed original work for 5 trombones and thythm. Divided into three large sections, the first two are solo features for lead trombone. Section 1 is in a Latin feel; section 2 is a ballad...

Beautiful ballad feature for either solo trombone (bone 5) or in place of bone 1. Optional solo tenor sax part included (can be used in place of tenor 1). Solo bone has opt lower division to avoid pla...

Very entertaining medium-tempo jazz waltz setting which features tenor sax or trombone (as either a guest soloist with the band or as Tenor 1 or Trombone 1). Soloist alternates with full ensemble writ...

Trombone section feature in a Caribbean feel. Solos for all 3 tenor bones. Opt'l steel drum patch for piano. Great, rhythmic unison soli for whole band. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky...

Fast swing, sax section feature. Begins with an open drum solo, in tempo. Lots of fast unison and soli lines for the sax section. Solo changes in both the tenor 1 and bari. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big...

Composed by Stephen C. Foster, arranged by Ryan Haines. This is a fresh and exciting setting of the Stephen Foster classic set as a medium-up-tempo jazz waltz and featuring either a separate solo Teno...

An exciting version of this traditional hymn, orchestrated for 4 euphoniums and 4 tubas. This piece begins with a fast minor setting of the melody in 4/4. then pairs up the instrumentalists for a cano...

Bb blues shuffle. Lots of full ensemble. Vamp at beginning for guitar or piano solo. Open blues choruses in the middle, followed by a 12-bar canon for the entire ensemble. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big...

Beautiful, contemporary, 8th note feel, featuring solo flugel and trombone. Good changes for soloists. Nice, thick, full ensemble sections. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky' on Sea Bree...

Beautiful, contemporary, 8th note feel. Flugel solo for trumpet 2 and soaring solo for lead trumpet. Opens with a piano or guitar solo. Lots of pretty, full ensemble writing. Recorded by Ryan Haines B...

Up-tempo Db Blues. Open solo choruses. Lots of full ensemble writing. Drum solo trading 4's with entire ensemble.

Very pretty, and unique piece for big band. Brass and saxes acapella throughout, with drums on sus cymbal. A 4-minute jazz chorale, conductor not a necessity. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To T...

Fast, phrygian samba feature for 2nd bone, lead alto and trumpet 3. Intro has the brass and saxes acapella. Lots of ensemble playing in this piece. Lines for bass bone, bari sax and bass.

Funk shuffle, based on sharp 9's and diminished harmony. Thick ensemble writing and a challenging bass bone part. Open solo section, with changes for tenor sax, trumpet and bone. Challenging bone soli...

Beautiful jazz waltz feature for lead bone. Lots of blowing time for the soloist, interspersed with both contrapuntal horn writing and full ensemble settings. Solo bone to high C.

Medium shuffle, ensemble piece. Melody in bones 1-2 and tenors 1-2. Figures for bass bone and bari sax. Open choruses for all on 16-bar, easy, blues-styled changes. Lead trumpet to A below high C.

Beautiful ballad feature for either flugel or lead bone. No improv necessary. First section is just the soloist over piano (rubato). The middle of the piece utilizes some acapella moments and very pre...

Wonderfully unique and entertaining piece utilizing a New Orleans street-beat underpinning to feature the entire ensembe. The introduction features the trombone section in an acapella version of the m...

This fresh and exciting setting of the United State National Anthem is currently performed by the U.S. Air Force Falconaires jazz ensemble. Arranged in Bb, an optional vocal solo part is included as w...

A wonderful big band approach to this patriotic song. Begins with a fully voiced chorale with trumpets in flugels. The remainder of the piece uses a 'contemporary' straight 8th note feel, featuring Te...

Very entertaining feature for Bari and Bass Trombone. Bb blues solo for bari and written out stop choruses for bass bone. Performed frequently by the USAF Band of the Rockies Falconairs Jazz Ensemble.

High energy composition written for 2 big bands, minus percussion.(Each big band consists of 4 trumpets, 4 bones and 5 saxes. Piano and bass can be doubled if desired) This unique and exciting piece i...

Unique and creative approach to this classic piece using an up-tempo jazz waltz with solo changes included for trumpet, tenor sax and trombone). Introduction is a brief acapella horn section chorale....