Advance Music

The opening section is played by trumpets in harmon mutes and optional flutes over a Metheny-like Latin groove. Solos are provided for tenor saxophone and trumpet. A contrapuntal section builds all th...

This chart is great for young bands but also perfect for professional dance bands. The optional instruments are skillfully used to add color and interest. Solos for trumpet and alto. Advance Music is...

This bossa-like Latin features an alto saxophone solo and a middle contrapuntal section that answers back and forth between the trumpet and the saxes. Whether it's for a Saturday night gig or a school...

This fresh and energized composition will challenge your band and dazzle your audience.

Cuban Latin Guitar' is a practical teaching guide for guitarists who want to get familiar with Cuban Latin music. This book focusses on four styles in detail: Son, Cha-Cha-Cha, Bolero and Danzón. The...

This piece follows the standard AABA form and should be played half-note equals 104-116. Be careful not to play it too fast as the horns will have difficulty with the melody and interlude.The melody i...

The composition 'Antes de ilegar a Jagüey' (Before we came to Jagüey) was based on the travelling impressions my wife and I collected on our way to central Cuba. By the time we stopped in Jagüey, whic...

Written in 1999 at the invitation of Eugene Symphony Orchestra conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya for his innovative program Tango Lesson, which also featured tangos by Piazzolla, Gardel and Stravinsky, th...

Tango. Cool and passionate. Filled with sorrow, yet also inspired with glee. Calm and impulsive. Apparent extremes meet to form a whole. 'Dark Ice and Flames of Tango' endeavours to comprise as many o...

Mambo Maderas combines the chachacha and the classical mambo with a touch of jazz. It should be played slightly faster than a chachacha and somewhat slower than a mambo. Maderas means wooden, since th...

Canción para un clarinetista' - this 'song for a clarinetist' is dedicated to one of the most outstanding clarinetists and pedagogues in Cuba, a graduate of the National School of Art in Havana / Cuba...

The title of the piece speaks for itself. The composition 'Tango' lends itself to being performed within the framework of young soloists' competitions and can, in general, also be used in exams. For p...

Dancing tango. A stage, a black curtain, a nothing, a something. More?Music.The couple dancing tango finds its analogy in the two clarinets. The dancers are moving on a fictitious stage - different co...

Each of the four movements has its own profile and poses different challenges to the musicians: The first movement: rubato; the second one: bound to a fixed meter and set up as a multi-faceted tale. T...

A tango bar, some tables, chairs on the fringe of the dance floor. Each table has its own story, each chair harbors its own intentions.Another night.Listening to intentions, observing gestures, interp...

A snappy composition featuring melodies typical of the popular Latin style. The bass line surfs along in the foreground performing a number of solos.

Tango. Cool and passionate. Filled with sorrow, yet also inspired with glee. Calm and impulsive. Apparent extremes meet to form a whole. 'Dark Ice and Flames of Tango' endeavours to comprise as many o...

True to its title, Funky Tango is a groovin' journey in the style of Argentina's most famous dance music. Solos (written or improvised) for all four saxes make this a great piece to highlight all quar...

Tango. Cool and passionate. Filled with sorrow, yet also inspired with glee. Calm and impulsive. Apparent extremes meet to form a whole. 'Dark Ice and Flames of Tango' endeavours to comprise as many o...

Flor Mixteca' is a lively latin piece with a catchy groove and a fresh melody, with a touch of melancholy in the bridge. It combines elements from chacha, tango, bossa and salsa. Less experienced play...

This mambo-inspired piece of music is dedicated with great affection to Juan Carlos Ledón aka 'El Bororo', an outstanding Cuban saxophonist, who presently works as a teacher at 'Belén Jesuit Preparato...

Written in 1999 at the invitation of Eugene Symphony Orchestra conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya for his innovative program Tango Lesson, which also featured tangos by Piazzolla, Gardel and Stravinsky, th...

Fire! Fever! Flame! Temperament! - these are the terms most often used to describe Latin American music. Each of us has at least once been electrified by these unmistakable rhythms, this joy of life a...

Samba feeling for saxophone quartet! Valentin Hude's new arrangement with basic rhythms and a beautiful melody brings a summer atmosphere to the rehearsal room. Playable with variable instrumentations...

A snappy composition featuring melodies typical of the popular Latin style. The bass line surfs along in the foreground performing a number of solos.