Triple Grammy nominee Frank Mantooth has given this old standard a fresh but straight ahead swing treatment. Highlights include a sax section soli (with opt. trumpet 4) that is really hot and well worth a little wood-shedding time. Super for festival or contest.

Composed and published 2014.Commissioned by Festival Internacional Cervantino 2014.First performance: Randall Scarlata (baritone) and Ensemble Redes Festival Internacional Cervantino 2014 13th October 2014.Duration: 12 minutes.Instrumentation: Flute(=Bass Flute) Bass Clarinet Percussion Guitar Violin Viola.[Percussion: Triangle Cymbal Large Tam-Tam Wood Block Tambourine Wooden Chimes Sleigh Bells Güiro Maracas Bongos 3 Tom-toms Felxatone Waterphone Vibraphone Marimba 29-inch Timpani].

Hot-hot-hot may be the best way to describe Ken's new arrangement of this old jazz classic. Written in a driving three the piece starts off with bass alone and gradually adds the rest of the band. A great groove with a wonderful opportunity for your tenor to shine.

Here's an F minor blues that bounces back and forth between a two-beat and four-beat feel. Featuring a quartet of muted trumpets and saxes with optional flute this minor blues really cooks in the middle. There's an extended sax soli before the final shout chorus. You'll want to put this one on your festival list.

Frank T. Williams has had a great jazz program in Florida for years and FJH is proud to put one of his hot up-tempo originals in print for every band to enjoy. This cooking samba chart features lots of solid ensemble writing from the first downbeat. The one tenor solo is written out if you need it. This one smokes all the way!

Une autre collection dans la série des arrangements de lieder de la Romantik allemand pour voix et quatuor à cordes par Reimann (6 chansons opus 107 par Robert Schumann, ED 8329 et Franz Schubert Mignon, ED 8466, ont déjà été publiés). Le donjon d'Ophélie-chansons presque aphorismes étroitement à l'original de Brahms - une approche de composition différente à celui de l'adaptation de Mendelssohn ci-dessous, où chansons et les fragments sont entrecoupées d'intermezzi plus longtemps, délibérément contemporaine et l'ensemble forme un cycle prolongé. / Voix Et Quatuor A Cordes

For two Alto Flutes Bass Flute Violin Viola Cello. Composed and published 2015. Walled Garden for String and Flute trios is a set of three pieces designed to be interleaved with Mala punica a sequence of canons for eight-voiced vocal ensemble written in 2008-9. Commissioned by Spitalfields Music and first performed with Mala punica at Spitalfields Music Summer Festival on 3rd June 2015 by Daniel Pioro (Violin) Robert Ames (Viola) Oliver Coates (Cello) Jane Mitchell and Rebecca Larsen (Alto Flutes) and Helen Keen (Bass Flute). Duration: c. 24 minutes.

Wald for Ensemble was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2008-09. Co-commission by the Schönberg Ensemble and BBC for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.Programme NoteWald is in a way a series of variations from the beginning of my woodwind quintet Walden (1978). This thematical idea is very simple - a rising call of a fourth and the response in other voices. This idea is repeated several times but because the call has a slower pulse than the responses the process leads to them changing order.In Walden I borrowed the title from the Americanphilosopher Henry David Thoreau who in the middle of the eighteenth century in a little wooden hermit house at the bank of the lake Walden pond wrote the book Walden of his life and time in the forests. Here he experimented living for two years in order to come closer to nature and to see if it was possible to live simply without all the unnecessary needs created by society. The book is filled with poetry but is also cutting and critical of society. In my piece Walden I tried to search for the same simplicity handling the most simple material but at the same time trying not to lose the poetry.Wald is a twin piece to Walden but also to my former piece Schnee.Robert Schumann wrote in 1848-49 a wonderful piano piece Waldszenen. He wrote this collection of short pieces with beautiful titles like Einsame Blumen Vogel als Prophet and also Jäger auf der Lauer just a few years before Thoreau wrote his book Walden. For them the forest is the magical romantic place that gives a spiritual insight to man but also from where we get our food through hunting. For me the forest still has this magical quality and Wald has scenes with a hunting horn that calls (I many years ago played the magical 'Waldhorn' and remember playing in the forest near my home) flocks of birds that when agitated take

The well-known English melody gets new life in this arrangement that alternates between bossa nova and swing. It can be used any time of year and also works well on your holiday concert as What Child is This? which uses the same melody. A recurring Birdland-style groove keeps the energy moving forward. No solos in this one — just straight-ahead ensemble writing!

Celebrate the holidays with this classic carol scored with an uptempo latin beat and flavor. This chart features the brass in unison on the head before moving to a transition section and a tenor solo.

Here is a riff-based selection in the classic big band tradition. Reminiscent of the popular hot dance music of the ‘40s this chart is guaranteed to please (and maybe even crowd the dance floor!). There is plenty of room here for your best soloists to stretch out (and optional solos are provided). A series of ever intensifying riffs keep building to the end making this one cook all the way. Outstanding!