The master of jazz arranging Sammy Nestico pays tribute to America's most notable art form with this montage for concert band. Four distinct styles in the history of American jazz are represented with Dizzy Gillespie's Nightin Tunisia W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues Duke Ellington's It Don't Mean a Thing and Weather Report's Birdland. Treat your players to some of the greatest music of the jazz era.

Le célèbre musicien de jazz américain Benny Golson (1929) s?est produit avec de grands noms de Benny Goodman à Lionel Hampton en passant par Dizzy Gillespie. Benny Golson est également l?auteur de plusieurs standards du jazz dont I Remember Clifford. Le compositeurarrangeur japonais Toshio Mashima en a réalisé un arrangement pour Trompette solo et Orchestre d?Harmonie.

Saxophone Section Feature-Helping to pioneer the Afro-Cuban style of the '40s Dizzy Gillepsie's signature composition has been recorded by countless jazz artists over the years and has become a true jazz standard. Skillfully arranged here as a Saxophone section feature with concert band this sizzling arrangement alternates between Latin and swing styles like the original. A wonderful change of pace.