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The music to this musical is perhaps more known from the hits New York, New York and Some Other Time, It was based on a ballet 'Fancy Free' by Jerome Robbins to which Leonard Bernstein wrote the music...

CHESS, the musical, composed by B. Ulvaeus and B. Andersson with lyrics by T. Rice opened in London's West End in 1986. The story involves a romantic triangle between two men, an American and a Russia...

'Black Orpheus' appeared as principal theme in the Portuguese-language movie 'Orfeu Negro' in 1959. The song appears in various versions throughout the movie. It was the first bossa nova composition t...

Solo for Cornet/Trumpet Herbert Lincoln Clarke (1867 - 1945) is maybe the most famous American cornet players of all time. He was member of 'The John Philip Sousa Band' , and was their cornet soloist...

Tore Tang is a big hit song by Norwegian rock-band MODS. The song was released in 1981 on their record album 'Revansj' in 1981. The composer is vocalist Morten Abel, today a respected solo artist in N...

Evert Taube (1890-1976) was an author, artist, composer and singer and is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the ballad tradition in the 20th ce...

Odd Nordstoga is an award winning Norwegian artist who has been active since the 1990's, working in the popular-/folk music genre. I have listened to a lot of Odd Nordstogas music, in particular the...

'Winter and Snow' was written by Sigurd Jansen and Alfred Naess and were recorded and released on single by Norwegian singer Wenche Myhre in 1966. The single was released in connection with the Nordi...

Randy Crawford led R&B veterans the Crusaders on the transatlantic hit 'Street Life' (1979). A specially re-recorded version was featured in the soundtrack for the films Sharky's Machine and Jackie Br...

An old weather forecast on the Norwegian radio inspired Tone Hulbaekmo to write this song. Folk musician and composer Tone Hulbaekmo comes from Tolga, a small place in Norway. She have toured worldwid...

Most Scandinavian people know Benny Borg. As a guitarist, composer, lyric writer and a show actor, he has been producing great music for many decades. His most famous songs are probably 'Balladen om M...

Harry Connick Jr. is an American pianist, singer, composer and actor from New Orleans. He has released many albums and perform frequently with his own big band. 'Do Dat Thing' is a real 'feel-good' so...

'Väsen' ('commotion', 'fuss', 'ado') is a Swedish acoustic band consisting of three outstanding instrumentalists playing viola, 12-string guitar and nyckelharpa ('key-harp'). They have been touring to...

'Ein farfar i livet' (Grandpa) is taken from the 2011 record album release 'Bestevenn' (My best friend) by Odd Nordstoga. This is music for a Norwegian TV-series called 'Vaffelhjarte'. In this arrange...

'My first love' is one of Jahn Teigen's big hits, and definitely among Norwegian pop-history's biggest classics. The song was featured on the 1979 album 'En dags pause'. Jahn Teigen (1949-2020) was o...

I don't know why I get ideas on my way home. Maybe it depends on who is waiting... This is my third pop song for Concert Band inspired by going home. Keep the tempo up throughout the song, you are Hea...

This song performed by Jahn Teigen represented Norway at the Eurovision final in 1978. The result was zero points, but after that, the song soon became very popular in Norway and is one of the biggest...

'Stealing Apples' is an old swing-tune written by Fats Waller. Performances by Benny Goodman and his big band made the song very popular. In this arrangement for concert band, the mallet percussion an...

Sverre Bergh was a musical Joy spreader - both as a performer and as a composer. He was involved in radio, movie and theatre music of the highest quality, as a composer of two operettas and a televisi...

Mitt hjerte er ditt ("Mein Herz gehört dir") ist vor allem mit diesem norwegischen Text und dieser Melodie aus Maj Britt Andersens Aufnahme des Liedes bekannt, die 1992 erstmals veröffentlicht wurde....