James Rae

Bring groove and authentic jazz flair to your lessons! With "Jazzy Saxophone 1 (for Young Players)", published by the renowned Universal Edition, young saxophonists can explore the captivating world o...

Add a fresh, swinging touch to the festive season! With the sheet music edition "Christmas Jazz" published by the renowned Universal Edition, you can discover eight popular English Christmas carols re...

These contrasting pieces in the jazz/swing idiom specially written by James Rae for saxophone players of modest ability provide interesting material for both practice and performance. The technical de...

This album of Easy Studies for Saxophone is a 'user friendly' introduction to Jazz and Rock phrasing at an elementary level. The book is divided into two sections, Jazz and Rock. In the Jazz pieces, a...

This book of eight contrasting original compositions will introduce beginners to playing in the Blues styles. Right from the start even and swing tempo pieces are part of the programme amongst other J...

Blue Baroque Saxophone is a collection of modern re-workings of eight pieces taken from the Baroque period and set in various blues styles. For many years it has been appreciated that direct transcrip...

The ability to sight-read well is a valuable asset to any musician, yet sight-reading is often ignored. The Eyes and Ears series contains carefully graded sight-reading specimens with a duet part for...

Ces morceaux peuvent être interprétés aussi bien en solo qu'avec une deuxième voix d'accompagnement. À la fois exigeants et accessibles, ils développent de manière ciblée la musicalité, l'expressivité...

Pour bien commencer à s'amuser en solo, avec accompagnement et dans un ensemble Dès la première note, les jeunes clarinettistes ont ici toutes les possibilités musicales. En effet, ces compositions or...

Ideal for the concert programmer, these arrangements are of two much-loved classics and yet offer flexibility of instrumental line-up. This third volume of the series Centre Stage featuring Mozart, Th...

Four-part flexible chamber music arrangements featuring a soloist Ideal for the concert programmer, these arrangements are of two much-loved classics and yet offer flexibility of instrumental line-up....

Gabriel Fauré is arguably one of the world's most lyrical and expressive composers. He had not only the gift of being able to write beautiful melodies, he also had the ability to surround them in an e...

The range of tonal colour that can be produced by the clarinet made it eminently suitable for Debussy's impressionistic compositions and it featured greatly in his orchestral works. Only a few works h...

Schubert for clarinet Together with Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert is considered to be the founder of romantic music in German-speaking countries. He mainly owes this reputation to the compositi...

James Rae has selected a variety of pieces from Brahms's orchestral and song repertoire and transcribed them for clarinettists in their earlier years of tuition through to more advanced levels. From C...

This work was written for and dedicated to the clarinettist Mark Walton OAM by way of a thank you for all his fine recordings and performances of my music. It was premiered in London by Mark and his a...

James Rae follows the success of his best-selling 'Debussy Clarinet Album' (UE 21?264) with this selection of arrangements of piano music by Erik Satie. It draws from the well-known 'Gymnopédies' and...

Without a doubt, the 21 Hungarian Dances for piano four hands are among Johannes Brahms' most popular works. They were written between 1858 and 1869. Brahms wanted to create concertante works with ele...

Les trois mouvements de cette sonatine — vif, lent, vif — < ... présentent des ambiances contrastées et sont conçus pour mettre en valeur le saxophone à travers des styles variés, allant du classique...

Immerse yourself in the expressive world of the saxophone with the exquisite "Saxophone Album" from the renowned publisher Universal Edition. This carefully curated sheet music edition for alto saxoph...

Ausgabe für Saxophon in Es und Klavier

James Rae is the man who put fun into woodwind and brass teaching. His many compositions, especially in the jazz and blues idioms, have often featured on examination syllabuses. Recent years have seen...