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Bananas
A blues composition combining a common scheme and a ‘Parker-blues’.
Big Baby Boom Boogie (alto-feature)
An altered boogie composition.
Busy Lizzy
A medium swing piece, based on the 'Rhythm changes'. Dedicated to my daughter Annelies.
Crazy little thing called love
One of the greatest hits from the rock-band Queen.
Cutty Sark
A playful John Barry-theme in 6/8.
East of the sun (and west of the moon)
(tenor-feature)
Lovely tune in easy swing.
Nostalgia in Times Square
One of the great Charles Mingus' compositions.
Russian Doll
I wrote this piece in 2006 for my youngest daughter Chrisje.
Start the Big Band
An up tempo swinger.
Swanky Swan
Camille Saint-Saëns 'le cygne' in a swinging arrangement.
The Fire Department
A swinging composition with a story.
Well you needn't
The Thelonious Monk composition with the notorious chromatic bridge.
Alligator Bogaloo
Lou Donaldson wrote this blues in 3 minutes.
It turned out to be a hit.
Bristol Boogie
A Morrissay & Muller samba-boogie composition piece featuring tenorsax and guitar.
Caravan
A latin jazz standard featuring the guitar. For all Wes Montgomery's out there.
Chévere
A chirpy latin composition.
Latin Chat
A happy bossa nova composition.
Morning (piano-feature)
Clare Fischer's most successful composition.
Nikki’s Samba
I wrote this samba for my oldest daughter Nikki.
Que Pasa Chica?
A cheerful medium latin piece with a nostalgic edge.
Bond Street
Bacharachs music appears in the early James Bond comedy ‘Casino Royale’.
Burp! (baritone-feature)
A bluesy funky composition.
The Chicken (bass-feature)
This Alfred Ellis composition is made famous by Jaco Pastorius.
Waterproof
(alto & tenor-feature)
A funky duet with alto and tenor.
Marching Cat
A cheerful mix of ska, rock and jazz march.
Ballad/Slow
Also Sprach Zarathustra
(Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
This is a big band version of the famous beginning of Richard Strauss’ symphonic poem.
At the Barbiertje
A ballad for old buddies featuring the fluegelhorn and tenor saxophone.
Blue Cat
A tribute to Jerry van Rooyen. Featuring the fluegelhorn. Ballad.
My one and only love (trombone-feature)
A wonderful ballad.
Pensive Miss (fluegelhorn-feature)
An amazing composition by Neil Hefti, first recorded by the Count Basie big band in 1958.
Prelude Cesar Franck
A classical composition for grand organ scored for big band.
