SKU: AP.JEM01023C

UPC: 654979994107. English.

Composed by the Grammy¨ award-winning composer/producer Quincy Jones, this is an emotional ballad featuring tenor or soprano saxophone that will touch the hearts of both performers and audience alike. Lush chords and a tender piano introduction set the mood for this superb chart arranged in collaboration by Quincy Jones and Sammy Nestico. This song was originally written as the Gymnastics Theme for the 1984 Olympiad. Playable by an experienced jazz ensemble, this is a sensational ballad. Strongly recommended!

SKU: CL.SCM-1001-01

Thad Jones composition re-scored for high school & Jr. high bands. Technical and range requirements have been reduced without compromising the Thad Jones sound. Easier of the 2 Sassy arrangements. Solos, piano voicings and bass parts written out. 8 brass, 5 saxes 4 rhythm , Opt. Flute (Playable/w 4 Sx., 3 Trp., 2 Trb., 3 Rhy.).

SKU: CL.SCM-1003-01

Jazz Rock style re-scored to be performed by high school and college jazz ensembles. Range demands reduced while maintaining the Thad Jones sound.

SKU: PL.0320

This is an exciting and challenging setting of Psalm 46. It opens with a fanfare-like figure from the organ and a homophonic setting of the text. Be still and know that I am God, acts as a refrain throughtout the work, while Jones explores different vocal textures and rhythmic settings to illuminate the text. After a climatic setting of The Lord of hosts is with us, the organ reduces to a low trill and a final statement of be still. . . brings the work to a peaceful conclusion. This would be an excellent wrok for a large church or university choir.

SKU: PE.0989253017

ISBN 9780989253017. UPC: 038081470153. English.

No Beethoven chronicles the life and times of drummer Peter Erskine, with the legendary band Weather Report being the nexus to this first-hand account. Erskine was in the midst of the modern American jazz music scene as it underwent its most dynamic change. Peter Erskine is a musician of his times with incredibly rich stories to tell in this autobiography. Including never-before published photographs.

No Beethoven includes chapters dedicated to Weather Report and the musicians Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, and Wayne Shorter, plus the bands Steps Ahead, Steely Dan, and artists such as Elvin Jones, Joni Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, Diana Krall, Steve Gadd, producer Manfred Eicher, composers John Williams, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, et al. The book provides a revealing look at the creative process involved in performing music on-stage and in the recording studio, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the musical instrument industry operates.

This is a book for all musicians and fans of music. As famed drummer and Rush founder Neil Peart writes: No Beethoven is among the best musical autobiographies I have read. Peter's story is absorbing and compelling, full of well-drawn characters and incidents both humorous and serious. It flows with the same ease and naturalness as his drumming, and under that good-humored gloss, it conveys the same profundity of experience and ideas. This book should be read not only by every drummer, but by every musician. Even amateurs of music performance will find it entertaining and worthwhile.