Active Measures is a classic straight ahead swing chart with bebop overtones. Cup mutes are featured throughout the brass and instantly place the listener "back in the day". Solo space is provided for piano, trumpet, and tenor sax, and a surprise coda appears…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Rick Lawn
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Aria, as the title suggests, is a beautiful melodic feature for alto sax. In addition to the haunting tune, Rick Lawn has fashioned subtle supportive ensemble figures that weave a rich fabric of accompaniment and include flugelhorns and cup mutes in the…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Rick Lawn
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
A high energy thriller working both sides of the street. Streetwise by day and suave and sophisticated by night. This chart covers all the bases from the opening rock guitar riff to the sax soli quote of Miles Davis” solo on So What and back again. A great…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Rick Lawn
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Piano Feature
A challenging work for piano and percussion ensemble. This work features an advanced piano part that has many vertical characteristics. The percussion parts color and shape the musical concepts of the piano solo.Program NotesA challenging work…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Jonathan Green
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
A dramatic and modern Thad Jones style take on an extended blues form makes for a challenging chart for everyone. Beginning with the opening glissando and punch, this chart announces itself in style. Muted trumpets take the melody and then hand it off to the…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Rick Lawn
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Spirited and light-hearted, Jonathan Green uses vocalizations of the title Machaca to enhance this brief piece.
Grade Level: 2 Copyright: 2002 Number of Players: Standard Duration: 2:05 Publisher: C. Alan Publications Category: Concert Band
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Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Jonathan Green
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
A beautiful arrangement of one of Dvorak's most popular orchestral works. Originally for strings, Mikkelson has adapted Serenade, Op. 22 for woodwinds with cello and bass.Program NotesThe Serenade in E, Opus 22, for String Orchestra was written at a pivotal…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Russell Mikkelson, Dvorak
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Rick Lawn brings us a funky take on a stretched out blues form with a slippery melody and sophisticated harmonies. All goes according to plan through the melody and alto sax solo. A challenging unison brass soli follows and leads us into a unique musical…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Rick Lawn
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Percussion Trio Feature
Do you have an orchestra director brave enough to program this one? This tour-de-force shows off every aspect of being a percussionist, from the gentle and expressive sounds of the melodic percussion to the savage and barbaric sounds…
Style:
Full Orchestra
Composer:
Jonathan Green
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Tears of Apollo is a musical portrayal of three stages of man’s relationship to God: I. Age of Fire, II. Age of Reason, and III. Age of Heaven. Four challenging mallet parts make this a must for your college ensemble.Program NotesTears of Apollo is a musical…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Jonathan Green
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications