Norsk Concert Band Entertainment

Funky Kidz is a cool tune that fits perfectly to showcase the beginners as soloists with the band. The solo part is easy to learn 'by ear', while a stylish bass ostinato makes it fun for the band to a...

A good friend of mine, trombonist and professor Jesper Juul Windahl commissioned me a trombone quartet. I then wrote Four Nordic Folk Pops. The last of the four is a Norwegian tune called Havard Hedde...

This funky rock-chart is composed by Larry Barton, a US composer living in Kentucky. This arrangement is made to feature two soloists, the Tenor Saxophone and the Tuba. The tuba-player can choose to...

Letter from home is the title track from the album recorded by Pat Metheny Group in 1989. The tune is quite simple, yet strikingly beautiful in its simplicity. The mood of the music is sometimes melan...

Me and Mrs. Jones a été écrite par Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff et Cary Gilbert en 1972, et a été enregistrée pour la première fois par Billy Paul sur l'album 360 Degrees of Billy Paul. La chanson parle d'...

This brilliant scored entertainment piece is Sammy Nestico's tribute to the T-Ford. Out of print for many years but now available once again for new conductors, musicians and listeners as well.

50 melodies on 7 minutes - This brilliant arrangement is both fun and challenging to play! The Norwegian Jazz Group Farmers Market has made a crazy but brilliant song out of 50 melodies on only seven...

Black Bottom Stomp is a composition by Jelly Roll Morton (his real name was Ferdinand Joseph Lemott), born in New Orleans in 1885. He claimed, perhaps not too modestly, to have invented jazz i 1902. N...

Row row to Siraland is a folk tune from the Norwegian county of Sogndal. A catchy version which a great concert opener with opportunity for the band to enter on to the stage one by one. This arrangeme...

This hymn tune from the 11th century is the oldest known polyphonic arrangement of Norwegian Music. The text is in Latin and dedicated to St. Magnus. Magnus Orknoeyjarl (Magnus Erlendsson) (1076-1115)...

A very entertaining concert opener in Las vegas-style. An enjoyable piece of music for the band and the audience. The piece was written for Norwegian Brass Band Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag for their p...

''Brittern' was written for my good friend, Brit Johnsrud to her Solo-CD recording 'Light Blue Outfit'. Brit is a former hornist with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and works today with the profess...

This beautiful song contains a huge contrast between the hopeful and the disappointing. A mother has her birthday and is waiting her children to celebrate it. Each verse starts optimistically, but the...

Haven't Met You Yet' is the first single from Canadian singer Michael Bublé's sixth album, Crazy Love, released on August 31, 2009.[1] According to Bublé, the single and its official music video are '...

Stilig' ('Take It Easy') is one of the most popular songs by the Norwegian artist and songwriter Trond-Viggo Torgersen. It was released for the first time in 1981 as a part of the LP-release 'Det by'n...

Jan Eggum released 'Myrsnipa' on the album 'Hjerteknuser', which was released in 2007. The text is a variant of the folk tale with the moral 'everyone likes their own children best' and has for many y...

The Title 'Go Far' is a word play referring to what the players are going to (GO FAR!) and the musical inspiration from the TV-series 'Fargo' (Mr. Wrench/Mr. Numbers). The piece is very groovy and esp...

'My Fantastic Gramps' is a bubbly piece about an old man. The style of playing must be fresh and youthful throughout the piece. Watch the balance in bar 12. 1st flute (piccolo) and 1st alto sax should...

This is the finale from the original soundtrack of the opening ceremony of the XVII Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, 1994. The piece was composed by Knut Reiersrud, Iver Kleive and Marilyn...

Norge i rødt, hvitt og blått ('Norway in Red, White and Blue') was commissioned by the Oslo Fagott Choir (yes, that is indeed a gay men's choir) for a concert with The Staff Band of the Armed Forces i...

When Jerker Johansson in the 80's started to compose he was for a while obsessed with writing music in odd time signatures, more specifically 7/8. He was asked during the fall of 2020 by Leif Karlsson...

Erik Bye (1926-2004) was a major Norwegian TV-personality in his time, a colourful man with a varied background. He was a great lyricist, and many of his poems and songs have become modern Norwegian c...

Rendezvous was commissioned by Krohnengen Brass Band for their 50th Anniversary in 2019. This version for Concert Band was scored autumn 2020. "Rendezvous" is devided into three sections. Each section...