This chart is a creative musical voyage! With a Metheny-flavor, the work begins with bari sax and band vocals trading back and forth. Then the swing groove begins at 184 BPM with a soaring ensemble featuring a trombone solo and plenty of energy. An upbeat and exciting chart. (5:42) / Ensemble De Jazz

Par SMITH ZACHARY. Curacao Blue by Zachary Smith has a Latin groove with an easy bossa rhythmic pattern. Features a tempo around 134 BPM, trumpet 1 range to written E top space, a written tenor solo, clear articulation with complete rhythm section notation, and optional instrument parts with vibes. This accessible chart will transport everyone to the islands! (3:10) This title is available in SmartMusic. / Date parution : 2022-07-28/ Répertoire / Jazz Ensemble

Journey of the Lone Wolf tells the story of the hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was commissioned by Dr. Nicholas Childs for Black Dyke Band who gave the first performance on Sunday 26 January 2014 at the Bridgewater Hall Manchester as part of the Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Brass. The composer's programme notes for each movement:1. Capturing the Peasants SongAfter the upheaval of moving to Budapest the young Béla Bartók meets Zoltán Kodály and the pair embark on summertime adventures throughout the Hungarian countryside to collect and catalogue the astonishingvariety (both harmonically and rhythmically) of gypsy and folk music heard in the Balkans. The arrival of WW1 plunges Bartók's beloved Hungary into chaos.2. Night MusicBartók was at times a cold man aloof and lonely. The odd moments of tenderness he showed are portrayed here in a series of evocative solos. His brief but intense affairs speak of a love he could only long for. Jazz is my night music and here there are hints of what Bartók may have heard in the USA later in his life.3. Flight and FightHaving been forced by the world's evils to leave his homeland of Hungary for America Bartók the anti-fascist felt isolated and angry. In this movement we hear his longing for a simpler time of gypsy folk dances as well as his maturity and depth as a composer finally exploring deeper colours and darker themes.

Guitar Concerto Opus 67 was commissioned by Julian Bream who gave the first performance in Aldeburgh with the Melos Ensemble. It is an overt tribute to Jazz and especially to Django Reinhardt. This is particularly evident in the long slow movement which someone once described as a script for a Hitchcock thriller.The most remarkable feature of Arnold?s Guitar Concerto is that the composer cleverly eschewed all clichés in his guitar writing be they Spanish or Jazz and that he approached his task in his own inimitable way. The scoring for small forces is a miracle of economy clarity and efficiency. Malcolm Arnold at his best and at his most inventive thiswonderfully crafted piece has become a favourite.

An important and significant work written in London in 1942 and now published for the first time: 60 years later! The first movement is tuneful and full of those surprises Malcolm loves to introduce in his music. There are no shortage of jazz inspired ideas coloured always by that Arnold 'edge'. The second movement is a fiendish scherzo - full of amazing cross rhythms and of immense energy. The final movement is a March and the most emotionally charged. Clearly very strongly anti-war - severe and angry dissonances mocking fanfares angular and brutal melodic and rhythmic shapes. 'A very playable work...with plenty of interest for all the players. A greataddition to the repertoire!' AWTGrade: 8

As implied by the title the meter of 5/4 is an important structural component of this creative and energetic work for band. After the intense opening statement a brief lyric and calm middle section builds to a full ensembleclimax before returningto the fast main theme. Blending extended jazz-like harmonies with an exciting rhythmic drive this piece is sure to stir the interest of players and listeners alike. Dur: 4:25

Mvt 1. Par ARCENS GILLES. Diplômé du conservatoire de Toulouse de 1982 à 1985 (1er prix de saxophone, 1er prix de musique de chambre, prix de perfectionnement de saxophone, 1er prix d'harmonie, 1er prix de contrepoint, 2ème prix de solfège), il poursuit des études de composition de musique de films à l'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, avec Antoine Duhamel et Laurent Petitgirard, entre 1987 et 1988. De 1986 à 1992, il exerce en temps que professeur de saxophone, de musique de chambre, d'harmonie et de contrepoint au conservatoire d'Andorre la Vieille (Principauté d'Andorre). Il joue en parallèle dans le quatuor de saxophones Tetrasax de 1981 à 1990, puis de 1989 à 1993, avec le Jazz Time Big-Band, dirigé par Richard Calléja. Il rejoint le grand orchestre de René Coll en 1992, en temps que saxophoniste arrangeur, et compositeur. Il réalise des orchestrations pour de nombreuses émissions de télévision (Sacrée Soirée, les Années Tubes, FaSiLa Chanter, Vivement Dimanche, les 25 ans du Loto, Prima Dona, Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde, Music-hall et Compagnie, les émissions pour l'élection de Miss-France de 1996 à 2003), sur des compositions originales de Vladimir Cosma, Gérard Presgurvic, Richard Sanderson, Gilles Arcens, etc. Il travaille en étroite collaboration avec Patrick Sébastien depuis 1998 : co-compositions et arrangements de ses chansons, réalisation de tous ses albums, composition de ses génériques de ses émissions télévisées, mise en forme et orchestration de ses spectacles et tours de chants, accompagnement sur scène en tournée dans toute la France et dans les grandes salles parisiennes (Olympia, Palais des Congrès, etc.). Durant sa carrière, il a accompagné de nombreux artistes dont J. Hallyday, F. Pagny, Barry White, N. Croisille, S. Distel, H. Salvador, Maurane, V. Samson, S. Lama, C. Aznavour, G. Lenorman, D. Briand, Adamo, Dave, H. Léonard, L. Fabian, E. Macias, M. Delpech, J. Montagné, Garou, Nadya. Ses compositions regroupent de nombreuses musiques pour big-band, ballet, film, ensemble de clarinettes, orchestre d'harmonie, piano, clarinette et cordes, clarinette et orchestre d'harmonie, contes musicaux pour enfants, choeur mixte et orchestre d'harmonie, et pour ensemble de cuivres. / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Trompette Solo et Orchestre d'Harmonie