One For Grady – For Jazz Combo

I composed "One For Grady" for one of my dearest friends, inspirations and confidants - my German Sheppard, Grady. The musical style and feel was inspired by compositions of Benny Golson and the 1950's era of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. The ideal instrumentation for this chart is trumpet, tenor sax, trombone, piano, bass, drums. The instrumentation for this arrangement is: Part 1 - in…

Henderson Variations 5th mvt. FREE DOWNLOAD

This is a FREE download. Please CLICK HERE to download. Title Variation Movements for Trumpet (1967) by Robert Henderson Biographical Info Robert Henderson’s remarkably productive career began before he reached college age and has expanded without pause since then.

Geet’s Beats – For Jazz Combo

I wrote "Geet's Beats" while working at a jazz camp with the legendary big band drummer, Ed Shaughnessy. Our faculty combo needed something swinging and hard-driving that featured our drummer so I came up with this "Art Blakey-like" tune. After we auditioned the tune and Ed approved, he asked what the name was and I didn't have one. I asked him if he ever had a nick-name and he said that in his…

Chorale – For Jazz Combo

"Chorale" is a chamber-jazz work based on a section of music from Bela Bartok's "Concerto For Orchestra". (Mvt. 2 - Giuoco Delle Coppie) The piece will require the ensemble to play together as a cohesive unit to create subtleties of phrasing and nuance. Hopefully, creating a performance where the sum is greater than the individual parts. I believe it is quite a departure from the bebop…

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