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The Brussels jazz pianist Bob Gay composed several excellent original marches, but left their wind band orchestration to his friend Peter Laine. The combination of Gay's humour and inventiveness on th...

Molenaar Edition has already published the nice pasodoble torero Olé Toronto by this young Spanish pupil of Jef Penders. Here is a splendid concert pasodoble composed by Ferran for the centenary of th...

The slow 'Airs' are a Ted Huggens speciality. LARGO ALLA BAROCCO is written completely in the style of the majestic 'Air from the New Baroque Suite' which was a worldwide success. At the end an ad lib...

The once extremely popular American group 'The Village People' released its first album 'San Francisco' in 1977. The next year two more albums came, 'Macho Man' and 'YMCA', followed in 1979 by 'Go Wes...

This concertmarch was composed in 1994 and it was dedicated to a medieval town. At the beginning you can hear the dissonant blares (trumpets, cornets, horns and trombones) symbolising the rivalry betw...

Giulio Caccini's 'Ave Maria' has been one the most often played tunes at funerals. In 2001 it was used for the soundtrack of the movie picture 'Donnie Darko'. Here is a most pleasant and skilful arran...

Peter Kleine Schaars most skilfully uses the wind band to give a nice demonstration of the wrapped salsa rhythm. The theme is strolling right through the various instrument groups, whereas the woodwin...

Dámaso Pérez Prado defined the mambo as 'merely an Afro-Cuban rhythm with a flavour of American swing'. In the 1950's he became also a star in the USA where he was considered as 'The Mambo King'.

Originally this music was composed as a song on Ukrainian text and dedicated to Kiev - capital of the Ukraine. Kiev is one of the oldest in the former USSR city, it has its own originality and has a l...

The associated artists Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II played a prominent role in the history of the American musical. Their collaboration started in 1943 and resulted immediately in the big...

The infernal and extremely rhythmical 'Samba di Janeiro' was a hit made popular by the group Bellini years ago. A driving and exotic sounding percussion introduction is followed by a most compelling t...

Hans-Joachim Rhinow, born in Berlin on 18 November 1921, studied at the Conservatory of Music (Musikhochschule) of his native town. From 1958 onwards he was active as composer and arranger for radio,...

The Belgian composer Jaak Govaere (1954) is a member of the Royal Belgian Air Force Band and of several famous dance and jazz bands. 'Follow me', arranged by Gh. Slingeneyer, guitarist of the former B...

This is the music of a popular American science fiction television serial dating from the late 70's. The music composed by Glenn A. Larson and Stewart Philips sounds a little bit familiar, as it seems...

Antonio Carlos Jobim (1925-1994), undoubtedly one of the greater Brazilian composers, is especially known as a songwriter. He combined modern classical touches with a suave swing rendering individual...

This is a brand new original arrangement of this famous Gershwin march with optional part for vocal soloist. George Gershwin (Brooklyn, 1898 - Hollywood, 1937) is not only the composer of 'Rhapsody in...