Kurt Sturzenegger

Bingo is wonderfully fun and quirky tune by New York based Matt Wilson. Based on the traditional children's song B-I-N-G-O. Matt commissioned this arrangement for a performance at the Univ. of Norther...

Tired of the same old big band charts?? Do you love minimalist music? Looking for something different?? If so, then this is the chart for you! Written ina quasi-John Adams/Steve Reich-esque style, thi...

This medium-up straight eighths chart is scored for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, 4 tpt, 3 tbn and rhythm. It features solo flugelhorn on melody and improvisation, and there is also a trombone solo. So...

Straight eighth notes in the ECM style. This multi-section piece in 6/4 time features tenor saxophone over modal changes and electric guitar (solid body) or soprano saxophone over pedal point and slas...

A lyrical jazz waltz in the ECM style, featuring fluegelhorn soloist. The harmony is influenced by Wayne Shorter. Running time is approximately 6 minutes. Medium difficult. No doubles.

This uplifting piece was written to honor one of the greatest jazz drummers of South Africa, Lulu Gontsana. Even eighths. The introduction is built on major seventh chords over a driving beat, which o...

Not quite a ballad, not really a jazz waltz, this haunting piece features soprano saxophone throughout. The modal harmonies are of long duration, challenging the melodic invention of your soloist as w...

A moderately slow, straight 8ths that alternates 6/5 and 5/4 bars. Beginning with a guitar solo, it features a gentle melody played by the soprano and tenor saxes. The featured soloist is the tenor sa...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Malinke's Dance is a funky boogaloo originally recorded live on a CD of the same name by the Marty Ehrlich quartet Traveler's Tales. This arrangement develops material from the live performance into a...

Funhouse was written by Bob Brookmeyer for an extended quartet engagement in 2004 at The Jazz Standard in New York City with Brad Shepik, Drew Gress, and John Hollenbeck. The piece has not been record...

Petite Bete Noir was commissioned by Gene Aitken for the Greeley Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band. Written in a somewahat minimalist style, the piece is based on a four-note cell in the bass voices who...

A boogaloo in the Sidewinder tradition. Solo for 1st alto. Trombone section featured throughout starting with an unaccompanied intro and then a voiced soli after the theme is stated. Sure to have ever...

This piece asks the following question: 'Can the blues be played without actually playing the blues progression?' There is an emotional progression that lies beneath the chord progression. The theoret...

An up tempo rhythm changes chart written for and recorded by John Von Ohlen and the Blue Wisp Big Band. Features a wild sax soli with soprano lead (alternate alto included.) Solos for trombone, piano,...

Inspired by the emotions of hearing jazz for the first time, this piece describes the evergrowing intensity of those emotions after many years of a life in jazz. Wild alto and trumpet solos are called...

The up tempo opening statement, featuring 6-part counterpoint, tests the listener's limits of comprehension. After examination of the individual melodies, thematic expansion and development, not to me...

Penned and punned by Peter Erskine, based on the standard Just In Time. Worth The Wait reflects arranger Tim Hagans affection and reverence for the composing and trumpet playing of Thad Jones. Humor,...

Groove.Alto Sax/Flute 1, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax 1, Tenor Sax 2, Flute 2/Baritone Sax, 4 Trumpets and a Solo Trumpet 4 Trombones Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums.A boogaloo written for two scary trumpet so...

Up Tempo .2 Alto Saxes, 2 Tenor Saxes, 1 Baritone Sax 4 Trumpets and a Solo Trumpet 4 Trombones, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums An altered and twisted version of rhythm changes inspired by Hagans?ò improv...

Slow Ballad 2 Alto Saxes, 2 Tenor Saxes, 1 Baritone Sax 4 Trumpets and a Solo Trumpet 4 Trombones Piano, Bass, Drums. A lush and haunting ballad written for Dave Liebman's beautiful soprano sax sound....

Slow, long intro without rhythm, movie-score like, flghn solo. Recorded by the Chris Walden Big Band on 'Home Of My Heart'.