Spring Waltz [4tet]

“Spring Waltz” is a duet I wrote in the spring of 2014 and forgot about it until today. I kept the melody and wrote 3…

4 Christmas Songs demos

15 Popular Christmas Songs for trio by Erik Veldkamp Martin van den Berg was so kind to record the tuba parts for these 4 songs.…

Con Alma is a great composition written by Dizzy Gillespie and has been on my arranging bucketlist for a long time. So it was a…

The famous jazz standard “Whisper Not” by Benny Golson. This time in an arrangement for 4 trumpets.

“Somewhere Over The Rainbow” is a well known composition by Harold Arlen written for the musical teh Wizard of Oz in 1939. Here my arrangement…

I hope I did justice to the title….Another trumpet 4tet I arranged and recorded today. There are some tricky lower parts in this arrangement! So…

Here an arrangement of Thelonious Monk’s “Blue Monk”, this time for a trumpet 4tet. My goal was this to write it for intermediate level. So…

Choro(or Chorinho) is an instrumental genre of the Brazilian popular music that has its origins in Rio de Janeiro in late 1800s. I started to…

Loet is zolang ik hem van het Hilversum’s Conservatorium ken (begin jaren ’90) altijd druk bezig met van alles in de muziek zoals concerteren, big…

Here a demo of the first etude of a new book I’m working on called “Trumpet Skills”. I compose 20 challenging etudes, some are classical,…

I’ve updated my Chet Baker in Tokyo transcription book with an extra chorus (after the bass solo) in “Portrait in Black and White”. This is…

My new book with 15 Brazilian Tangos & Polkas composed by Ernesto Nazareth is almost finished. Here a short version of one of my favorite…