Concert Band with Alto Saxophone Solo

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...

Prestidigitation means sleight of hand or nimble fingers, and describes the alto saxophone soloist in this innovative and compelling work. The triplet rhythms, walking bass line and call-and-response...

Originally recorded by Elvis Presley, this powerful ballad has become an enduring standard recorded by countless artists over the years. James Swearingen brings us a beautifully scored version for ban...

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...

In 2008 Philip Sparke published his book of etudes "Super Solos", the third volume of a series for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone and euphonium. A young German flutist was so...

This work is one of a group of three pieces for solo wind instruments and band commissioned by the G. LeBlanc Corporation as performance vehicles for their artist/clinicians, the other two being 'Ode...

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...