Partitions moyen chez Advance Music

Loose Your Life Life (And It Will Surely Find You) features the tenor saxophone in a gospel-flavored 7/4 funk piece which has roots in my youth, growing up in a family in which my father was a penteco...

A dreamy blues theme-reminiscent of Duke Ellington-with variations. The sections between the variations feature each performer in a solo which further develops the thematic material.

Shuffle, Shuffle is a 24-bar blues featuring a slightly extended harmonic structure. It should be played in a ternary feel and very groovy. The virtuous phrases sound best if they are interpreted in a...

This is the statement for the Blues: Slow, laid back and soulful, with all the rich textural colors and interplay found in the writing of Clare Fischer, this little blues is easy to play and a treat t...

Uptempo even eighth piece, arranged for SATB saxophone quartet by the musical director and arranger of the Mingus Big Band. Medium advanced While on a concert tour Joe Lovano visited the ancient city...

Cuel Bloo is a piece that, in the first place, is meant to be a lot of fun. The composition based upon simple motifs should be performed in triplets and sounds best when played in a relaxed yet concen...

Trajectory explores all facets of the saxophone quartet sound in dense, choral-like harmonies as well as alternating voice combinations. Musical dialogues and improvisation open up a field for intense...

Reflects the composers reactions to travelling through the Berlin Wall on his first European tour. Advanced

3-movement through-composed blues suite. Medium advanced

Slow funk.

Medium swing, based on the chord changes of 'Pennies from Heaven'. A refreshing change for players and audience alike. Medium Grade.

Swing-blues feel, includes a written alto solo.

Funk-shuffle, includes a written solo for alto sax.

Funk-groove, includes a written alto solo.

In 2007, the Goethe Institute invited me on a trip to Indonesia where I was supposed to record a CD. I was taking along a whole series of big band arrangements of Indonesian folk songs.'Di Sudut Bibir...

Diese Komposition voller Lebensfreude und Fröhlichkeit hat Heiner Wiberny für seine Frau geschrieben, die eine besondere Affinität zu afrikanischer Musik hat. Deshalb verarbeitet er überwiegend Stilmi...

A Klezmer Wedding is a set of four dances, newly-composed but based on traditional models. The Doina is an expressive chant for three successive soloists; it twists and turns with the wailing lament o...

The arrangement was commissioned and recorded by Prisma (members of the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphonic Orchestras). It can also be heard on That's Brass (Oculus Brass Quintet, FMCD 90101). M...

After initially introducing the theme in a mere 'cloud of sound', the piece, then, starts off in a Cajun/New Orleans groove. All the voices have their solo spots. More and more independent voices join...

Mike Curtis' stay in the city of Guanajuata in Central Mexico inspired this great musical celebration, filled with evocative, ethnic textures and colours.

A Klezmer Wedding is a set of four dances, newly-composed but based on traditional models. The Doina is an expressive chant for three successive soloists; it twists and turns with the wailing lament o...

A Klezmer Wedding is a set of four dances, newly-composed but based on traditional models. The Doina is an expressive chant for three successive soloists; it twists and turns with the wailing lament o...

Wooden Miniatures was commissioned by Washington State University in commemoration of the WSU Library Addition. Most of the compositional work was done in April and May of 1994. The work is dedicated...

Three Short Stories, written for bassist John Goldsby, is an extended, through-composed three-movement piece. It contains improvised sections for both instruments, challenging passages of bass harmoni...