Blowin' The Blues Away is a departure from my past fifteen simply because this is a jazz album designed as such from its inception back in 1964 when Irv Kratka asked the legendary jazz pianist and com...
Ben Webster always had a split musical personality. On uptempo tunes, the great tenor-saxophonist could sound quiteintense, with growls, honks, roars and screams being a natural part of his vocabulary...
The E-flat Beethoven quintet is a wonderful example of Beethoven at his best. Beautiful sonorities in one of the great classics of chamber music. The Andante is especially beautiful, with an almost pe...
Accompaniment: Zinn's Ragtime String Quartet - The Zinn String Quartet accompany you in this great collection of Joplin Ragtime Quartets. Don't miss it!
Performed by various soloists Accompaniment: Rhythm Section Two: Don Abney, piano: Jimmy Raney, guitar: Oscar Pettiford, bass: Kenny Clarke, drums: Rhythm Section Three: Don Abney, piano: Mundell Lowe...
Studio City evolved as a response to the hundreds of requests over the years for MMO Big Band arrangements to play with. This entry features one of the foremost university bands in the nation, the Cal...
Accompaniment: Hidemitsu Hayashi, piano - Favorites of clarinetists and pinnacles of the repertoire, these two sonatas are always popular on recital programs everywhere. Hear the piece performed by Am...
Accompaniment: Manhattan String Quartet - Dvorak gave the piano a heavy involvement in this beautiful chamber work. The second movement is patterned after the 'Dumka' dance form. Beautiful melodies, w...
Starring Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum, this musical drama film released in December 2017 has been a box office success, and its soundtrack composed by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul is a big part of that....
This collection of classic pieces, scored for solo bassoon with piano accompaniment, covers a huge span of time and musical styles, from Bach (Bourrée I and II) to Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice. Inclu...
I am so proud and honored to present you a great Music Minus One volume released with my name which showcases the beautiful and lush string writing of the legendary composer/arranger Neal Hefti. These...
Jazz Saxophone Etudes Volume 4' features twelve intermediate-advanced jazz etudes. This book and play-along CD set will take you through a variety of tempos that are designed to correspond to the flow...
This etude book was written with the idiomatic tendencies of the saxophone in mind. The etudes cover the full range of both the tenor and the alto. While some technical challenges are present, these e...
Accompaniment: State Wind-Orchestra of the Ukraine - This great 20th-century concerto by Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian has become one of the essential elements of all trumpeters' repertoire....
Boots Randolph is a modern day legend in music. As a tenor saxophonist he appeared with every major Nashville artist of the past 40 years. Artists such as Elvis, Roy Orbison, Chet Atkins, Buddy Holly,...
Designed for newcomers to the banjo, this is the first volume of Dick Weissman and Dan Fox's simple method to mastery of this, the only indigenous American musical instrument. - Includes a fully illus...
Volume Two of Dick Weissman and Dan Fox's acclaimed banjo method, designed for beginning players on the five-string banjo. - Includes a fully illustrated method book and compact disc featuring every e...
Italian Baroque Master Tomaso Albinoni is sometimes overlooked due to his fellow countryman Vivaldi's immense popularity, but this collection demonstrates the immense gifts which Albinoni exhibited as...
Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen, piano - Master oboist Delia Montenegro teams up with MMO veteran Harriet Wingreen to bring you a wide-ranging collection of concert pieces for oboe and piano. These ex...
Accompaniment: Erik Nielsen, piano This wonderful album for the beginning to early intermediate oboe player includes thirteen pieces ranging from Boccherini to Grieg to Richard Strauss to William Walt...
Accompaniment: Erik Nielsen, piano - Virtuoso Douvas of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra continues the Oboe Classics series with these wonderful advanced-level solos on oboe. These cover the range fro...
Eight original blues compositions covering a broad range of styles from boogie-woogie to gospel to modern funk, arranged for piano, bass, drums and sax. Listen, then play along. Includes complete arra...
A method compiled and edited by Erich Katz, Dean of the American Recorder movement and the man responsible for the enormous recorder renaissance in the U. S. A. that started in the late 20th century a...
A complete audio soundbook devoted to the new sounds in drumming. Learn the basic beats accopanied by an all-star rock band. Parts are played and demonstrated by Mike Ricciardella, the phenominal drum...
An extraordinary program of pieces for trumpet, that every trumpeter will come to play in a life-time, at public appearances in stadiums and other large venues. It ends with an extraordinary performan...