The first CD by this amazing, creative Bay Area-based Big Band (formerly the Bay Area Jazz Composer's Orchestra). This CD contains all the music you've come to love.

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For 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 saxes, full rhythm section; featuring trumpets 3 and 4 and drums. This is a New Orleans- style chart inspired by the great drummer Shannon Powell.
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Featuring tenor saxophone, this piece also features a section where horn players improvise together and create an accordion-like effect under the tenor sax soloist. Check out the score

Trumpet and Piano feature, straight 8th modern big band chart.

Funky New Orleans Type tune featuring trumpet, alto, trombone and drums.

This is the first cut of our first album. It's an exciting and challenging arrangement of ESP, a great tune from the mid-60's Miles era. It starts with solo trumpet and drums and builds to a dramatic tenor solo in the middle, rushing to a wild ending.
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A tribute to the great Clark Terry, this is a showpiece for four trumpets.
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New-age "fusion" locally-sourced bossa. Features alto and trumpet.
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A quirky bebop tune inspired by Monk and other bebop greats. Ryhthym changes and lots of solos. The name is the reverse of the legal term "Non Compus Mentis" meaning - not in your right mind.
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A rip-roaring barn burner. Includes a free section in the middle for the rhythm section. Fun to play and hear.
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Cheap Rent is a fun, groove-based piece. It features a 12/8 clave that can be found in many traditional forms of music with roots in Western Africa. It also makes use of a "call and response" melodic technique, unison bass/electric guitar lines, a single chord improvisation for one soloist, and the use of both non-diatonic root movements and augmented chords for another. This piece, in a predetermined and rhythmic way, also makes use of some extended techniques, exploring the sounds that can be made by the sax, trombone, and trumpet sections.
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