A new edition of this popular trumpet tutor, ideal for home practice. It has a bright new cover giving it a fresh and contemporary new look, and is the perfect book for pupil and teacher. This tutor book is carefully graded to take the student from the earliest stages to competence, and includes includes duets, trios and teacher's parts for tunes that children will know and want to play. Abracadab…

A great take on a wonderful tune. Beginning at 130 BPM, Deutch's arrangement of 'Pure Imagination' moves to double-time swing and then into a samba groove with solo space for piano and trumpet 4. The lead trumpet range is to written high E. Check this one out! (6:47) / Ensemble De Jazz

A classic from the golden age of the show tune, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is a soulful and sophisticated number originally written by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach for the musical Roberta. Over the years the song has been covered by Bryan Ferry, Jerry Garcia, and was a 1958 chart topping hit on both sides of the Atlantic for doo wop group, The Platters . With a deep dynamic range and rich, floating h…

24 Pieces from 5 Centuries. The Easy Concert Pieces series has the right pieces ready for the first concerts. Easy to intermediate original compositions and arrangements for descant recorder and piano provide a cross section of the different epochs, from the Renaissance to the modern era. The enclosed CDs contain all pieces as full versions and as piano accompaniment for playing along. In Vol. 2, …

Watkins' String Quartet, set in three movements, showcases the range of emotions the composer is able to conjure through music. The piece works from gently ebbing lyrical episodes into virtuosic, impassioned frenzies and back, ending serenely. / Quatuor A Cordes

Par MAW NICHOLAS. Written for Melinda Maxwell and the Orchestra of St. John's Smith Square to commemorate the orchestra's twenty first anniversary. the happy surprise, of his Little Concert. . . beneath the graceful long lines and jig-like spurts of a solo part expressly written for Melinda Maxwell, Maw finds time and space enough to draw quite long-range implications from his basic motif of a sem…

Par HAHN / LARRIEU. Having been considered as a 'fashionable' and 'cliche' composer of his day, Hahn was best known for his contributions to the French Melodie. Nocturne for Flute and Piano, however, represents the engaging diversity of the composer's music. Venezuelan born Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) entered the Paris Conservatoire at 10 years old. He received a high standard of musical education f…

Par CARDENAS CARLOS. Orígenes (Origins) was commissioned by the European Brass Band Association as a test piece for the challenge section of the 38th European Brass Band Championship in Freiburg, Germany 2015. It is a spectacular piece from the pen of CarlosCárdenas, who belongs to a new generation of composing talent. The clave, a rhythmic pattern, which originally comes from African music, was t…

Par CAFOLLA ROMA. A collection of graded pieces that have interesting titles. Designed to offer accessible works for performance and enjoyment. The inspiration for the title comes from the reality that when you stand in front of an audience or present for an examination you are giving a unique part of yourself. You can honestly say that it is ?Just Me!? The pieces range in difficulty and encompass…

Introducing the Positions, a series widely used in classroom and private studio, represents a critical â''next stepâ'� for string students. Position playing allows players to extend range beyond the basics and move into the ranks of intermediate and advanced ensemble groups. The most important positions vary for each instrument, and Whistler wisely introduces the most-used positions first in Volum…