Walrus Music Publishing

Up tempo Samba, with tenor sax and flugelhorn solos.

If you have a rhythm section & soloist capable of playing rhythm changes at an up-tempo [300+] you will want to include this in your next concert. The horn parts are very easy, & not too high for bras...

Beautiful ballad setting for an original based upon the chord changes to 'Round Midnight'. This is a feature throughout for the soloist of your choice.

A contemporary blues featuring solo spots for Tenor, Trumpet & Drums. This is a difficult chart because of the dissonance & richly voices layers of sound. It is a driving chart that creates a lot of e...

The chart that won James the prestigious IAJE/Gil Evans Fellowship, 'Darkness' is a straight 8 cut-time funk extravanganza with extended solo space for tenor, drums, guitar/pano, and trumpet. The piec...

Arranged for saxophonist/composer Peter Epstein's appearance at the 2004 Central Coast Jazz Festival, this modal alto feature takes some unexpected turns in the middle and sets up a natural sounding g...

Commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival for the 2007 Next Generation Jazz Festival, this chart falls in that small space between Ornette Coleman and Radiohead, with a bevy of odd-metered phrases, s...

The Dude Abides was commissioned by the California Band Directors Association for the 2007 IAJE/CBDA California All State High School Jazz Band. If you like your jazz with a healthy dose of distorted...

Arranged for the Jonathan Kreisberg Trio's appearance with the Virginia Tech Jazz Ensemble in 2008, this chart is a great feature for your rhythm section, with extended solo space for guitar (or alto/...

Kneebody meets big band. There is simply no adequate way to describe this chart and do it any sort of justice, so you're probably better off just listening to the recording online. If you've ever wond...

Commissioned by Curtis Gaesser and the Folsom High School Jazz Ensemble, this composition is an extended concert piece with several substantial ensemble passages, an abundance of contrapuntal writing...

A lush ballad featuring the trombone section and lead bone solo. Very pretty changes and large ensemble ending. 5 reeds, 4 trpts, 4 tbns, 3-4 rhythm. Trumpets double on flug.

Features trumpet-tenor. Ensemble backgrounds and out chorus compliment soloists. No doubles.

An ethereal sounding composition that employs cluster voicing in the reeds and close voicing in brass. There is a Tenor solo, part written, part improvised, with a building brass background leading to...

David Liebman Series. Composed by David arr by Jim McNeely. Very representative of 20th century contemporary harmony,this arrangement features the soloist weaving in and out of a variety of dissonant...

David Liebman Series. Comp by David arr by Vince Mendoza. A waltz in a 2 over 3 feel with an odd metered contrasting vamp section. This features soprano or tenor saxophone and alto sax soloist trading...

David Liebman Series. Comp by David arr by Ed Sarath. A programmatic piece depicting the use of the atomic bomb ending World War II. It involves a bit of rubato and question and answer episodes betwee...

David Liebman Series. Comp by David arr by Bill Warfield. One of Liebman's most popular pieces, this deceptively simple sixteen bar Latin feeling composition is dedicated to the great artist Pablo Pic...

David Liebman Series. Comp by David arr by Alan Baylock. With a fusion sixteenth note intense rhythmic underpinning and intricate unison lines, this features the soloist playing freely over the rhythm...

David Liebman Series. Comp by David arr by Henrik Frisk. A slow eight note quasi ballad with five sections of four bar polychord harmonies. This arrangement features an array of contemporary colors an...

David Liebman Series. Comp. by David; arr. by Andrew Rathbun. Originally recorded with Elvin Jones and featured on Lieb's Big Band recording As Always, this arrangement features a variety of challengi...

David Liebman Series. Comp. by David, arr by Arnon Palty. A contrafact based on Softly As In A Morning Sunrise features a woodwind super sax rendition of McCoy Tyners solo on Softly from an early Colt...

Third Bass is a medium calypso (think St. Thomas) that features the 'low' instruments on the head (Bari, TB 4 and Bass), a blues tune in thirds. An ensemble unison/octave soli sets up the solos for an...

Blues For... is a medium shuffle blues in G that features an opening bass solo with a subsequent alto sax solo, sax soli and syncopated ensemble shout chorus that solidifies the groove. 5-4-4-4 (Lead...

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...