Advance Music

'Confidence', a composition in ABAC form, uses different stylistic elements taken from jazz, rock and classical music. Starting from the intro, with its bluesy character, the melody of the first secti...

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...

A tone series, heard at the beginning in unison, is the basic material to be formed in the first movement. The intervals of a minor third and a fourth or fifth play a special role, whether in the melo...

The three-movement suite starts with an easy swing; the more quiet second part is a relaxed blues, whereas the final part is a lively Latin movement.

Inspired by John Williams' film score for Catch Me if You Can, this creative original features three contrasting movements that can be performed as a complete work or programmed separately. Each movem...

Saxophone Quartet (SATB) + opt. piano, bass, drums (compatible w/woodwind edition) 4-movement work, composed for the New York Saxophone Quartet. Three movements are through-composed and very playable...

Composer-revised and newly typeset 2001 edition, originally published by Kendor Music. Phil Woods: Born in Springfield, Massachusetts - November 2, 1931. Phil began saxophone lessons at age 12 with Ha...

Like the 1939 Paul Klee painting which inspired it, Blue-Bird Pumpkin is a quirky, non-too-serious piece. The solos are 'open' (no pre-determined number of bars) but should be short. It is not necessa...

Inspired by a 1938 Paul Klee painting this is a very fast piece with a great deal of precision and internal swing feel.

Dedicated to Jim and Nancy Schoepflin on the occasion of their retirement from Washington State University, this expressive original begins and ends in quiet simplicity, with increasingly complex and...

Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Jazz Conception is the new exciting series of play-along books by award-winning Brazilian flutist and composer Fernando Brandão and features fifteen original tunes in various...

This arrangement is a more contemporary version of the original version while at the same time maintaining its perfection. A set of performance notes which offer conceptual and technical insights is i...

New 'cross over' arrangement, as recorded on 'Cafe Paradiso'. Transposed to A minor, a more 'guitar friendly' key. Aside from the introduction, the coda, and some slight rhythmic and phrasing variatio...

The main body of the piece stays true to the original composition, as true as possible that is, considering that is has been adapted for the guitar. With this arrangement comes a set of performance no...

While in college, Ludmila Ulehla, already an accomplished pianist, chose to learn to play the flute as her minor subject. She composed Capriccio shortly after graduation. It is a happy, brilliant piec...

This well-crafted adaptation features four of the most acclaimed movements of the Peer Gynt Suite. It is truly great literature for woodwind quintets and celebrates a wide range of moods and styles, f...

Dream Trio was actually inspired by the concept of unique thoughts developing during sleep. The trio's two movements portray these changing fantasies to the delight of both performers and listeners.

Each sonata is written in a three movement form (fast-slow-fast), and are equally successful and satisfying when played by any two instruments of matching pitch.Editorial metronome markings, articulat...

Each sonata is written in a three movement form (fast-slow-fast), and are equally successful and satisfying when played by any two instruments of matching pitch.Editorial metronome markings, articulat...

One of the most beautiful pieces from French Impressionist Claude Debussy. The title translates to 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair.'

A slow introduction, a fast part featuring two contrasting themes, a key change, once again an increase in tempo leading up to an effective close - that's the pattern the composition of many overtures...

There will hardly be any other piece that might fit the term 'air' (song, melody) - derived from the French language - better than the composition on hand. To facilitate its performance in various ins...

Everyone knows it: the initial part of the 'Toccata' of Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Giant Fugue' in D minor. That is the reason why I have decided to attend to the complete work.Furthermore, it proves to...

An arrangement of the Adagio from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto by klezmer clarinetist Helmut Eisel. By adding a section in a blues style, he exposes the solemn character of this popular piece to its bes...

In Alexis Cieslas musikalischem 'Bestiarium' tummeln sich wilde Tiere: Klapperschlange, Koi und Fuchs stehen für drei klangvolle Sätze Pate. Ideal für Klarinettenschüler mit 3-4 Jahren Unterricht. Die...