Bob Curnow

As recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra, 'Berlin Bei Nacht' is the 4th movement of the Impressions of Berlin suite. Set in an up-tempo fashion, this Oliver Nelson's 1971 forward-thinking original s...

Bob Curnow takes you on a sensational journey through 6/4 and 12/8 time with this new original composition commissioned by Lawrence University for the 2018 Fred Sturm Jazz Celebration Weekend. If you...

This version is written for 10 brass. Bob Curnow takes you on a sensational journey through 6/4 and 12/8 time with this new original composition commissioned by Lawrence University for the 2018 Fred S...

Here's another wonderful Pat Metheny composition arranged by Bob Curnow. This is a very playable chart with comfortable brass ranges and offers everything you have come to expect from a Metheny/Curnow...

Bob's fresh rendition of one of the most popular Steely Dan charts ever. "Home At Last," recorded on the album "AJA," has solo space for Tenor and Trumpet. Reasonable brass ranges and an easy shuffle-...

Bob Curnow ha adottato un approccio nuovo a una delle registrazioni più popolari degli Yellowjackets. La composizione di Russell Ferrante permette un arrangiamento pieno di energia, con il feeling/sti...

Bob Curnow has taken this great tune of Benny Carter's and scored it very much in the style of the Count Basie Orchestra. The chart is set in a slow swing tempo and is warm and soulful. There is space...

This is a new edition (Finale computer notation) of this feature for the trombone section. It is available with a full score for the first time. It has also been edited to allow for performance by 8 b...

Bob Curnow has created a marvelous modal piece that opens with a fanfare in 6/8 and then moves into a lilting 3-4 swing tempo. There is solo space for alto sax and trumpet. The meter shifts from 3-4 t...

This medium-swing original by Bob Curnow focuses on alto saxophone and trumpet playing the melody. The piece has solos for those instruments and bass (all written out). There is nice use of counterpoi...

Bob has written a fun-filled, high-energy blues chart that swings hard.  Saxes and trumpets play the quirky tune, while the trombone section vamps along. This is one of the most popular tunes in Bob's...

Bob took the wonderful small group recording of this fun tune (on the CD 'Jazz Giant' - Contemporary) and turned it into a very special big band arrangement. He also took Benny Carter's alto saxophone...

Every band from Tommy Dorsey to the Tonight Show Band to Ted Heath seemed to have a version of this great Sy Oliver tune. Bob Curnow compiled some of those versions into one great, new arrangement. It...

Inspired by a similarly-titled original Bob Curnow composed for the great Doc Severinsen, 'The Doctor Is In' was written for trumpeter extraordinaire Dr. Vern Sielert. Set in a medium-up swing feel, t...

Written for and recorded by the Maynard Ferguson Birdland Dream Band, this chart by Willie Maiden is uncharacteristically easy to play for the band due to very reasonable brass ranges. However, this i...

This edited version of Where's Teddy (as played and recorded by Maynard Ferguson's Birdland Dream Band) is much more playable for the trumpet section as a whole than the original pro version (which is...

This is a great chart to feature your drummer and the entire ensemble! Starting out with a bombastic Eastern-sounding introduction (ala Genghis Khan), it then launches into a hard-driving minor blues...

This is another great Oliver Nelson chart (it swings like crazy!). It starts in 3/4 and then goes to 4/4 and has a wonderful feel and flow as it moves through the different sections. The piece has ver...

Arranged by Bob Curnow to be played by a 10-piece small band, this great medium-swing chart has outstanding ensemble writing. It features solo space for Tenor saxophone, Trumpet, Piano, and Drums. A g...

This Oliver Nelson melody was originally recorded with a small group. Bob Curnow took this great tune and arranged it for big band in a very hip way! Set in an easy swing feel, this chart has quite a...

This Oliver Nelson melody was originally recorded with a small group. Bob Curnow took this great tune and arranged it for big band in a very hip way! Set in an easy swing feel, this chart has quite a...

As recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra, 'Ku-Damm' is the 1st movement of the Impressions of Berlin suite. Based on the blues, as so much of Oliver's music was, this bright swing (waltz feel) start...

Originally composed by Bill Holman for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Bob Curnow's arrangement of 'Solos' scores the melody in the unison saxophone section and is written for 8-brass. A straight-ahead, sw...

As recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra on their album Berlin Dialogue for Orchestra, 'Checkpoint Charlie' is some of Nelson's most creative writing. Full of uptempo energy, Nelson masterfully inte...

This arrangement by Bob Curnow is a fresh, swingin' take on a classic jazz standard. Written with plenty of solo space for alto saxophone and trumpet, and wonderful weaving harmonic and unison lines t...