Here my 6tet/7tet version of Manteca, a great composition of Dizzy Gillespie. I wrote this arrangement many years ago for big band and other line…
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Here a short demo I recorded this morning from a great Horace Silver composition called “The Jody Grind”. It’s also for my 6tet project. I…
qPress released some new books today. “Play The Lead!” 1 & 2 are the play along versions of my Quartet books. So you can play…
Here is an excerpt from one of my favorite etudes in my book “24 Range & Upper Register Etudes”. I’ve transposed it in 4 keys.…
Here is a free exercise from a new serie of books I’m working on. It’s a serie of books with daily exercises. Each book has…
qPress Music Publishing just released my 50 trumpet quartets, so if you like the demos you now can buy the sheet music for yourself and…
My trumpet quartets megaproject is finished, it will be published by qPress Music Publishing in January 2021. I’ve made 7 books in total, 5 volumes…
“Line For Lyons” is a great tune written by Gerry Mulligan and played with Chet Baker. This song is a tribute to Jimmy Lyons, the…
Here an arrangement of Monk’s “”Round Midnight” written for a trumpet quartet. It belongs to my trumpet quartet project. My goal is to write 50…
There a many (good) trumpet routines especially the Bill Adam routines in my opinion. But I decided to write a routine myself for my students…
“Frosty The Snowman” for 2 trumpets is the first title in my Christmas duets book. and published by qPress Music Publishing. This book is also…