SKU: CL.011-3933-01

Truckin'! lets students bring the noisy highway to life in this jazzy and attitude-filled new piece. Features especially rich teaching material here- including polyphonic and homophonic textures, syncopated rhythms and edgy harmonic language. Students will want to play it again and again, reveling in their fun and flattering individual parts. Audiences will come away tapping their feet and humming the melodies after the rousing and striking climax.

About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series

The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.

SKU: BT.DHP-0991728-020

De Amerikaanse pianist, orkestleider en componist Duke Ellington (1899-1974) had een geweldig gevoel voor instrumentale combinaties en ontwikkelde een eigen jazzy sound waarmee hij wereldfaam verwierf. Hij was een van de belangrijkstejazzcomponisten van de twintigste eeuw en hij liet dan ook een indrukwekkend oeuvre na. Sophisticated Lady, Mood Indigo maar ook Caravan behoren tot de echte Ellington-standards. Naohiro Iwai bewerkte hetlaatstgenoemde nummer tot een standard voor blaasorkest.

SKU: CL.028-5040-01

Looking for a piece to feature an advanced soloist with your young band? Look no further, because Dormez Vous? Not You! Is the perfect choice! The solo part can be performed by any instrument, and could be used to feature an advanced student, a former student, a fellow music teacher, or a local professional musician. It uses melodic material from Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) along with original jazzy melodies and harmonies. The title very loosely translates to, Are you sleeping? Well, you won't be after you hear this amazing solo! First rate!

SKU: IS.WE6180EM

ISBN 9790365061808.

English composer Malcolm Arnold wrote this compact sonatina in 1951 and it has since become one of his most popular instrumental works. As always with Arnold, it is impeccably crafted: the first movement, with it's wide leaps, the occasional incursion of a six-eight bar into the prevailing four-four, and the lightest of jazzy touches, lives up to its marking of Allegro con brio; while the second demonstates Arnold's love at this period of a gentle cantabile style where no shadows yet lurk. The finale is a wild dance in three-four time marked Furioso, and it is a distant cousin of the Czech Furiant. With its vigorous rhythms and cascading semiquavers, it has something of the open-air quality of Dvorak at his most buccolic - not a frequent influence on Malcolm Arnold, but a highly appropriate one in this charming (and challenging) little work. This version for clarinet solo with wind band has been arranged by saxophone player Alex Steurs.

SKU: HL.4003080

UPC: 884088577742. 9.0x12.0x0.064 inches.

You can sense right from the start that someone is sneaking around to give that unexpected surprise to a friend or foe! The percussion provide a simple but effective groove, and a jazzy middle section helps to mix things up and offers nice variety. Written in a single tempo throughout, here is an entertaining piece that will be a blast to perform, and yet musically rewarding to teach. Dur: 2:45.

SKU: RM.BRIV02246-BA

ISBN 9790231022469.

SKU: RM.CHAP02789-CO

SKU: CL.CTS-8057-00

Jazzy fun for first year players! Easy swing style and attention to articulation makes this piece fun for kids and a delight for your audience!