Ensembles

Hier ist ein achttaktiger Blues, der mit Klavier, Tenor und/oder Trompete gespielt wird. Die Lead-Saxophonlinie kann durch Sopran oder eine optionale Flötenstimme abgedeckt werden. Das Ende ist so ges...

Very developed piece, featuring lead alto and bone 1. Alternates between a 12/8 feel and fast samba. Lots of full ensemble writing. Very intense. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky' on Se...

Bb blues shuffle. Lots of full ensemble. Vamp at beginning for guitar or piano solo. Open blues choruses in the middle, followed by a 12-bar canon for the entire ensemble. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big...

Beautiful, contemporary, 8th note feel, featuring solo flugel and trombone. Good changes for soloists. Nice, thick, full ensemble sections. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky' on Sea Bree...

Beautiful, contemporary, 8th note feel. Flugel solo for trumpet 2 and soaring solo for lead trumpet. Opens with a piano or guitar solo. Lots of pretty, full ensemble writing. Recorded by Ryan Haines B...

Up-tempo Db Blues. Open solo choruses. Lots of full ensemble writing. Drum solo trading 4's with entire ensemble.

Fast, phrygian samba feature for 2nd bone, lead alto and trumpet 3. Intro has the brass and saxes acapella. Lots of ensemble playing in this piece. Lines for bass bone, bari sax and bass.

Funk shuffle, based on sharp 9's and diminished harmony. Thick ensemble writing and a challenging bass bone part. Open solo section, with changes for tenor sax, trumpet and bone. Challenging bone soli...

Beautiful jazz waltz feature for lead bone. Lots of blowing time for the soloist, interspersed with both contrapuntal horn writing and full ensemble settings. Solo bone to high C.

Medium shuffle, ensemble piece. Melody in bones 1-2 and tenors 1-2. Figures for bass bone and bari sax. Open choruses for all on 16-bar, easy, blues-styled changes. Lead trumpet to A below high C.

Beautiful ballad feature for either flugel or lead bone. No improv necessary. First section is just the soloist over piano (rubato). The middle of the piece utilizes some acapella moments and very pre...

Wonderfully unique and entertaining piece utilizing a New Orleans street-beat underpinning to feature the entire ensembe. The introduction features the trombone section in an acapella version of the m...

This fresh and exciting setting of the United State National Anthem is currently performed by the U.S. Air Force Falconaires jazz ensemble. Arranged in Bb, an optional vocal solo part is included as w...

A wonderful big band approach to this patriotic song. Begins with a fully voiced chorale with trumpets in flugels. The remainder of the piece uses a 'contemporary' straight 8th note feel, featuring Te...

Very entertaining feature for Bari and Bass Trombone. Bb blues solo for bari and written out stop choruses for bass bone. Performed frequently by the USAF Band of the Rockies Falconairs Jazz Ensemble.

High energy composition written for 2 big bands, minus percussion.(Each big band consists of 4 trumpets, 4 bones and 5 saxes. Piano and bass can be doubled if desired) This unique and exciting piece i...

Unique and creative approach to this classic piece using an up-tempo jazz waltz with solo changes included for trumpet, tenor sax and trombone). Introduction is a brief acapella horn section chorale....

Commissioned by Vince Wedge for the Young Sounds of Arizona Spring 2013 Meet the Composer Concert, this crowd-pleasing piece uses a basic Bb Blues form on the A sections and an I Got Rhythm bridge, wi...