Concert Band with Alto Saxophone Solo

What better vehicle than the sultry jazz standard 'Harlem Nocturne' to showcase the talents of your alto sax soloist? Arranged with a richly scored accompaniment, this will bring back memories of the...

What better vehicle than the sultry jazz standard 'Harlem Nocturne' to showcase the talents of your alto sax soloist? Arranged with a richly scored accompaniment, this will bring back memories of the...

I've been arguably credited with having written some 300 songs, 299 of which enjoyed a rather bumpy ride from relative obscurity to total oblivion. Heres the other one. ' These are the words of the gr...

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Solo-Jazzballade für Altsaxophon

Here is a terrific way to feature your alto sax soloist with band on a non-pop piece of music that is not too difficult. Jay Bocook's original features band parts that are easy to learn and a soloist...

Nikolai Andreevič Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan in 1899-1900. Ironically, although he composed another 14 operas and countless orchestral works, an extremely b...

The Spanish composer Pedro Iturralde (*1929) has to be considered both as pioneer and nestor of Spanish jazz music. Pequena Czarda (little dance) is a virtuoso little solo piece for saxophone and pian...

El Cid was the name of the legendary knight and folk hero Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar Cameador, the man who never lost a duel. After a typically Spanish opening, a slower section follows in which the compos...

Ragtime (ragged time), or rag for short, developed during the Dixieland jazz era of the late 19th century in the Midwest of the United States. One of the most important ragtime pianists was Scott Jopl...

Steven Spielberg's 2002 film Catch Me If You Can was set in the 1960s, and John Williams created a marvelous film score evoking the style of the progressive jazz movement popular during that time. Sol...