Par HANNICKEL MIKE. Typically bands that play at this level have some Clarinet players who are comfortable above the break and others who are not. By staying below the break throughout, this light and spirited Clarinet section feature let’s you give the entire section a bit of the limelight. This is a perfect vehicle to help your Clarinet section learn to shape a phrase, and the cheerful melody le…

Believe me if all those endearing young charms. Henk Hogestein has created a calm, yet uplifting arrangement of the famous Irish song Believe Me, if all these Endearing Young Charms. The melody displays the very best of Irish tradition with the words coming from a poem by Thomas Moore about love that goes above and beyond physical beauty. Irish Charms will make a wonderful inspirational interlude …

Symphonie der Tausend. Par MAHLER GUSTAV. All my earlier symphonies are mere preludes to this one. In the other works everything is subjective tragedy, - this one is a huge giver of joy.' (Gustav Mahler) Gustav Mahler's 'Symphony No. 8' is a work of exceptions. Seen from the outside, this is true of the forces that are used: with its three choirs, eight soloists and an orchestra of far more than o…

Guitariste de jazz, Misja Fitzgerald Michel est avant tout un musicien en liberté. Sa culture musicale déborde le champ du jazz, elle s'étend aussi bien à Bach et sa chaconne pour violon seul qu'à Jimi Hendrix. Avec Drew Gress (Basse), Jochen Rueckert (Batterie), et en invité sur deux titres, Ravi Coltrane (Saxophone ténor).

As a Jazz guitarist, Misja Fitzgerald Michel is above all a musici…

This book is designed to help saxophonists develop fluency in the jazz language by providing mainstream jazz vocabulary (swing/bop/post-bop) that nails the changes and lays great on the horn. Think of Hip Licks for Saxophone Volume 2 as a musical reference book, like a dictionary of great licks in all twelve keys, available when you need it. You can open the book to any page and just start pla…

The 4 Chord Songbook: Today's Hits allows the beginner guitarist to build a repertoire of acoustic songs using the same four chords. Songs, by artists such as Razorlight, Coldplay and The Kooks, are presented here in special arrangements so that you can play them with only four chords! The four chords - G, C, D and E minor - are shown in standard chord diagrams as a reminder above each song. / Gui…

10 Fugues For String Quartet Vol. 2. Par BACH JOHANN-SEBASTIAN. The idea for these arrangements came to me whilst listening to the Hagen Quartet's beautiful recording of the fugues that form part of Haydn's 'Sun Quartets', Op. 20. The spirit and influence of J.S. Bach, in particular his Well Tempered Clavier, Book II, courses through these three miraculous Haydn fugues. Like the viol consort, the …

Par BACEWICZ GRAZYNA. Grazyna Bacewicz realised at a very early age that her main purpose in life was to compose music. Already during the 1920s, as a student of Lódz Conservatoire, as part of her lessons in harmony and counterpoint, she made attempts at composing, in which she tried to resolve nagging technical problems and impart an artistically satisfying form to them. She grew up in an atmosph…

Warm vocal harmonies shimmer above the lush piano accompaniment of this classic Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer song. An excellent choice for concert and vocal jazz groups! / Voix Mixtes

Par FERTE ARMAND. The scarcity of practice collections devoted to a speciality defined problem of technique has often been deplored by both teachers and pupils. However, Masters of piano playing have written such collections whose number is countless and which deal with difficulties of all kinds. Unfortunately, they are spread over a very large number of music books. The volumes referred to above…