Advance Music

Swing-blues feel, includes a written alto solo.

Funk-shuffle, includes a written solo for alto sax.

Funk-groove, includes a written alto solo.

Medium groove. Medium

Hardly any other musical style is that much associated with special attributes as funk is: a fancy outfit, a hot hairdo and an out-of-the-way mode of behaviour. I Gotta Funk, Buddy also features an op...

Marked 'Andante Commodo,' this faithful adaptation of the Domenico Scarlatti theme features the harmonic clarity, melodic ornamentation, and straightforward rhythms of music written in the Baroque era...

The Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz' (y Pascual) fascinating and eventful biography is informatively described in the relevant specialist literature; with a few clicks, tho...

Jump for Joy is a cheerful tune featuring an amusing dialogue between the two alto saxophones, which is then followed by a groovy walking bass solo performed by the baritone sax. This is the perfect p...

Uptempo minor blues which draws its inspiration from Moon Germs by Joe Farrell. After the solo section (any instrument can be featured) a challenging, virtuosic, contrapuntal sax solo follows. Advance...

A burning, uptempo blues, patterned after Oliver Nelson's own version, which can be heard on More Blues and the Abstract Truth. Medium advanced

I was inspired to arrange this old gospel song by an elderly fisherman from Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It's his favorite song. It's a simple 16 measure pentatonic tune. PBS did an entire spe...

In 2007, the Goethe Institute invited me on a trip to Indonesia where I was supposed to record a CD. I was taking along a whole series of big band arrangements of Indonesian folk songs.'Di Sudut Bibir...

Arranged by Albert Loritz, 'Turkish Dance Melodies' features five saxophones having a festive Oriental party. Playing interwoven melodies and sounds while imitating Turkish tunes, they take both perfo...

A swinging saxophone quintet by Rupert Hechensteiner. Set like a rondo with an arpeggio motif in minor mode, the main theme in the tenor saxophone is followed by an alto saxophone solo (ad lib.). The...

The rhythmically pushing bass line forms the basis of this Latin inspired piece. The written or ad lib solo choruses are played by alto and tenor saxophones before the theme returns and is completed w...

I originally started writing these duets with the saxophone in mind. After having played the first drafts with my saxophone students, I found myself wishing I could play them with my clarinet and flut...

An amazing 4-movement composition for solo flute (piccolo, C flute, alto flute) and flute sounds. The performance CD contains manipulated flute sounds and a complete listening version. Winner of the n...

These dances can be likened to diarist entries written during an extended stay in Mexico's west coast state of Nayarit. Following each sultry day of exploring the beaches, I would come back to the bun...

The huapango is a popular dance originating on the east coast of Mexico. Its subtle alternation of 2 & 3 can be demonstrated in this recitation: MEX-ico, EC-uador, CHI-le, COS-ta, RI-ca.These dances c...

I originally started writing these duets with the saxophone in mind. After having played the first drafts with my saxophone students, I found myself wishing I could play them with my clarinet and flut...

Barbarito's Dance is dedicated to one of the most important Cuban flute players, Barbarito Torres. The contradanza, a Cuban music style typical of the early 19th century, was influenced by French salo...

Mike Curtis' stay in the city of Guanajuata in Central Mexico inspired this great musical celebration, filled with evocative, ethnic textures and colours.

My arrangement of I Saw 3 Ships ... is written in a quasi-baroque style in a quasi-rondo form. For years these 2 English carols have felt to me like 2 parts of the same song and I have arranged them l...

The composition 'Pequeño Divertimento para Tres Clarinetistas' (A Little Divertimento for Three Clarinets) originated from an encounter of our group of three friends and fellow musicians during a visi...

Bulgarian Bat Bite was written in 2003 as a commission by the Quartetto Italiano di Clarinetti. It is an adaption and expansion of the composer's 1992 duet, Khyberian Catfit, which is included in his...