Jazz Big Band Charts

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A Night Like This (2002) A slow ballad with trumpet and sax solos.  Live recording by the WSU Big Band.

Sunrise at the Speakeasy Café (2002) A fast chart with room for solos.  Studio recording by the WSU Big Band.

Indiana (2003) An arrangement of the old standard Indiana and Charlie Parker's Donna Lee  Includes original lyrics and Big Band accompaniment.  Live recording by the WSU Big Band and WSU Vocal Jazz Choir.

Chromatizactly (2004) A fast chart that challenges every instrument in the band.  Solis and solos build up to an exciting shout chorus and screaming lead trumpet.  Winner of the 2004 Lional Hampton Jazz Festival Big Band Composition Competition.  Studio recording by the WSU Big Band.

Waltz for a Beautiful Woman (2004) A Guaraldian waltz that gives the trumpets a breather.  Live recording by the Hartt Big Band.

Kahlil the Prophet (2005) An arrangement of the Jackie McLean tune for Big Band and strings.  Lots of room for solos, and a sax soli that sounds like something off of one of Jackie's records.  Live recording by the Hartt Big Band.

Fall, 2012: Joseph Abad will premiere a new Saxophone Sonata.

Fall, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories in CT.

Spring-Summer, 2012: Jeux pour Jumeaux will be performed in San Francisco, CA.

Spring, 2012: Bobby Watson and the UMKC Big Band will premiere Rhapsody for Dean Moriarty in Kansas City, MO.

Spring, 2012: Ashly Evans will premiere Birdsongs in Houston, TX.

Spring, 2012: BA(da)SS will be performed by Ryan Ford in West Hartford, CT.

Spring, 2012: Jordan Jacobson will perform fragments and memories in CT.

Spring, 2012: Not Death, but Love will be premiered by Ineo Saxophone Quartet.

Spring, 2012: David Tayloe will perform A Page Out of Zen in CT.

May, 2012: The Invisible, Magic, Soccer Phone will be premiered in Middlefield, CT.

April, 2012: The UMKC Opera Dept. will perform portions of Songs from Behind the Curtain.

April, 2012: David Tayloe will premiere A Page Out of Zen in NY.

Feb. 17th, 2012: The 016 Ensemble will be perform Romanza for Alto Saxophone and Violin in Manchester, CT.

Dec. 3rd, 2011: Ryan defends his dessertation, Songs from Behind the Curtain at UMKC.

July 17th, 21st, 24th, 2011: Music Faculty from the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival will perform ...and those seven dwarfs in a series of concerts in Western Maine.

June 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, 2011:Orphée Redux will be performed by Rhymes With Opera on their East Coast Tour (NYC, Baltimore, Hartford, Boston).

June 12th, 2011:Selection from Songs from Behind the Curtain will be performed at the John Duffy Composers Institute in Norfolk, VA.

May 13th, 2011: The Ineo Quartet will perform the 1st movement of Not Death, but Love on their Fischoff Competition program in South Bend, Indiana.

March 19th, 2011: The Ineo Saxophone Quartet will perform ...and love is fire... from Not Death, but Love at the NASA conference in West Point, NY.

Feb. 25th, 2011: I. Jest will be premiered by Robert Olson and the UMKC Orchestra in Kansas City, MO.

Feb. 14th, 2011: Hebdomas Squatinae will be performed at the Nebraska at Kearney New Music Festival.

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