Bob Curnow: Intermediate Sheet Music

Here is a most unusual chart, set in a celtic style, with shades of bag pipes and Scottish overtones. It is an extremely clever piece that opens and closes with the celtic sounds and has a roaring, sw...

West Chester University, PA ...... (Bob Curnow's alma mater) commissioned this new piece to feature the trombone section (and individual players) of the Criterions, and that is what happens with this...

This piece was never recorded by the Pat Metheny Group. It was 'lost in history' until discovered on a 1985 radio transcription. Pat says this was written for a gig with Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins a...

If you're familiar with the great chart on I Can't Stop Loving You that was created for the Basie Band, then you know what this one is about. This tune is set in a heavy shuffle feel, with lots of Bas...

This piece has been in the catalog for a while, but it has been totally recomposed and notated in Finale. It now comes with a full score (and parts). It was written for Stan Kenton, and it features a...

This is a newly re-arranged version of the magnificent melody recorded on the Adventures In Time CD (available on CD from Sierra). Bob Curnow eliminated the mellophonium parts, used a standard saxopho...

A four movement suite (Anthem, Dance, Lullaby, March) for unaccompanied trombone quartet. An internationally respected trombonist/educator has this to say: Thanks so much for sending me your Trombania...

A re-scoring of a Kenton original (richer harmony, better key). Soft flugel opening building to a tremendous climax. Can be programmed at any community or school event. JUST RECORDED BY THE WONDERFUL...

As commissioned (and recorded) by the SWR Big Band of Stuttgart, Germany, this is a lovely, easy-flowing piece that moves from a ballad (lullaby) to a waltz (featuring trombone and alto saxophone) and...

This book is a collection of rich tunes and ballads specifically characteristic of the cultures of Scotland, Newfoundland and Ireland. Initially associated with everyday rural activities, these memora...

Bob Curnow continues to add to his Pat Metheny Big Band Series with this wonderful light, laid-back, Latin-rock chart. It is very simple to play, with limited ranges in the brass and a level of writin...

Set in an easy-going rock feel, this Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays composition is sure to be a band and audience favorite. Based on the original recording from the Pat Metheny Group album 'We Live Here',...

As recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra, 'Wannsee' is the 2nd movement of the Impressions of Berlin suite. This lovely, beautiful, haunting melody features flute and flugelhorn as they each get the...

Piazzolla wrote many beautiful melodies, and this one is perhaps the most haunting.  This version is a step higher than the "non-Pro" version. It is a flugelhorn solo throughout, with very reasonable...

Bob Curnow took a fresh approach to one of the Yellowjackets' most popular recordings. Russell Ferrante's composition allows for a full-throated arrangement featuring the original feel/style (kind of...

Originally recorded by Cannonball Adderley on his album Domination and inspired by Oliver Nelson, Bob Curnow's adaptation/arrangement of Introduction to a Samba features the alto saxophone and trumpet...

Originally recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on their album Afrique, 'Kilimanjaro' is a mesmerizing, easy-feeling Latin composition which pulses along by the constant tumbao bass groove and infect...

Bob Curnow has taken this great tune of Benny Carter's and scored it very much in the style of the Count Basie Orchestra. The chart is set in a slow swing tempo and is warm and soulful. There is space...

This medium-swing original by Bob Curnow focuses on alto saxophone and trumpet playing the melody. The piece has solos for those instruments and bass (all written out). There is nice use of counterpoi...

Bob has written a fun-filled, high-energy blues chart that swings hard.  Saxes and trumpets play the quirky tune, while the trombone section vamps along. This is one of the most popular tunes in Bob's...

This Oliver Nelson melody was originally recorded with a small group. Bob Curnow took this great tune and arranged it for big band in a very hip way! Set in an easy swing feel, this chart has quite a...

As recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra on their album Berlin Dialogue for Orchestra, 'Checkpoint Charlie' is some of Nelson's most creative writing. Full of uptempo energy, Nelson masterfully inte...

If you're familiar with the great chart on "I Can't Stop Loving You" that was created for the Basie Band, then you know what this one is about. This tune is set in a heavy shuffle feel, with lots of B...

This piece is patterned after Stan Kenton's Dynaflow, but it is written in such a way that it is quite easy to play. There is room for alto sax, piano and bass solos. Big sounds without killing chops!...

This magnificent scoring of Carol of the Bells by Rich DeRosa (professor of composition/arranging at University of North Texas) was part of a long overture originally commissioned by the WDR Big Band,...