Advance Music

Arranged in the tradition of the great saxophone sections of the Swing era.

Medium 2-beat Dixieland, includes an optional snare drum (or wash-board) part. Medium

Gospel-swing. Compatible with the editions for clarinet and brass.

'Caleb and Kate' is a lighthearted Bebop piece. It should be played in a relaxed playful manner.

A slow moving piece, inspired by a 1931 Paul Klee painting.

Inspired by Paul Klee's 1918 painting Submerged Landscape and Blue Gouache the composition is very slow moving throughout and should have a hushed, veiled atmosphere.

Despite its song-like, almost sung melody, this is most decidedly no piece of music of the quiet and peaceful tones: It is its element of contrast and suspense that brings it to life.Easily to be perf...

The Boogie Woogie Bari Boy is a groovy little sax quartet that features, you guessed it, the baritone sax. It has a medium difficulty but the baritone part requires a lot of air! It is swinging and un...

Slow funk.

This is a perfect vehicle to showcase the saxes without rhythm section. After an opening statement of the melody in a close voiced Ellington style, the piece transforms into a blues march where the ba...

Medium swing, based on the chord changes of 'Pennies from Heaven'. A refreshing change for players and audience alike. Medium Grade.

Präludium und Fuge in G-Dur BWV 541 ist eines der bekanntesten und meistgespielten Bachschen Orgelwerke überhaupt. Olaf Mühlenhardt hat die musikalisch vielschichtige Fuge für Saxophonquintett arrangi...

Swing-blues feel, includes a written alto solo.

Funk-shuffle, includes a written solo for alto sax.

Funk-groove, includes a written alto solo.

Medium groove. Medium

Hardly any other musical style is that much associated with special attributes as funk is: a fancy outfit, a hot hairdo and an out-of-the-way mode of behaviour. I Gotta Funk, Buddy also features an op...

Marked 'Andante Commodo,' this faithful adaptation of the Domenico Scarlatti theme features the harmonic clarity, melodic ornamentation, and straightforward rhythms of music written in the Baroque era...

The Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz' (y Pascual) fascinating and eventful biography is informatively described in the relevant specialist literature; with a few clicks, tho...

Jump for Joy is a cheerful tune featuring an amusing dialogue between the two alto saxophones, which is then followed by a groovy walking bass solo performed by the baritone sax. This is the perfect p...

Uptempo minor blues which draws its inspiration from Moon Germs by Joe Farrell. After the solo section (any instrument can be featured) a challenging, virtuosic, contrapuntal sax solo follows. Advance...

A burning, uptempo blues, patterned after Oliver Nelson's own version, which can be heard on More Blues and the Abstract Truth. Medium advanced

I was inspired to arrange this old gospel song by an elderly fisherman from Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It's his favorite song. It's a simple 16 measure pentatonic tune. PBS did an entire spe...

In 2007, the Goethe Institute invited me on a trip to Indonesia where I was supposed to record a CD. I was taking along a whole series of big band arrangements of Indonesian folk songs.'Di Sudut Bibir...

Arranged by Albert Loritz, 'Turkish Dance Melodies' features five saxophones having a festive Oriental party. Playing interwoven melodies and sounds while imitating Turkish tunes, they take both perfo...