Alexander's Ragtime Band is classic Dave Wolpe---swinging and clever. Dave has taken this traditional Irving Berlin tune and twisted the chord changes and the rhythms just a little to earn it a top place in your library. No individual solos just swinging ensemble top to bottom with modest ranges (Trumpet to A Trombone to G) and the Wolpe touch make this ideal for any high school jazz ensemble. First class writing!

from the ALL FOR ONE Sextet Combo Series-Here is a beautiful bossa which has the melody in the second part. An additional trombone part has been added so the second part can be played by tenor sax alto sax or trombone. This arrangement was originally written to feature Eric Alexander.

Available again here is Frank Mantooth's classic chart from 1987 as performed by the Ashley Alexander Big Band on Seems Like Old Times. Let your piano player show off with this stunning ballad arrangement by the recognizedmaster of keyboard voicings and harmonic substitutions. The woodwind doubles on flute and clarinet are optional and the piano part is completed voiced out.

Blues for All Eric Alexander £ I Found You Steve Davis £ Visionary Steve Davis £ Captain's Song David Hazeltine £ Stranger Than Fiction Jim Rotondi £ Too Soon to Tell Jim Rotondi.

A note from the composer: This one kind of like my Blues for All from the too soon to tell set is a disguised minor blues. In addition it has a vamp at the end of each a section and an 8 bar bridge to take it out of the C minor tonality for a minute.

Note from the composer: Little Lucas is dedicated to my 2 year-old son. It is a happy medium swinger that captures his mischievous nature with the deceptively difficult movement of major 7th chords in the A sections. The melodynotes are for the most part the 7th of each chord and these notes follow a diminished scale sequence--going up a half-step and then down a major third repetitively. The B section features a 2 five sequence that moves in majorthirds. Originally I wrote this tune for a quartet date. For this arrangement I added a line played by the bass and piano at the end of each A section and voiced out the horns in open drop 2 voicings for a clear and cheerysound.