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This is an arrangement for saxophone sextet of the 1929 recording by the Duke Ellington Orchestra as performed, with a few tweaks here and there, by The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra on their album Thar They Blow. The instrumentation is Sno/S, S/A, ATBBs and is a real barn burner, challenging, but fun to play, and a tried and true crowd pleaser.

Tiger Rag

Saxophone Sextet

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Jazz up your holiday concert with this classic Christmas song, offering a twist that makes it a sure bet to be a crowd pleaser. After an opening struggle between the higher and lower voices, the lower voices win out and the song proceeds to hop around to various housetops via variations of the song represented by blues, latin, salsa, and swing styles. Your band and audience will definitely have a lot of fun this one!

Up On Whose Housetop?

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Saxophone sextet (SAATBBs) written for and recorded by The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra on their CD, Isoptopia.

Song for Our Children

Saxophone Ensemble

Zeus, the god of weather, has had enough of the way we humans have brought about climate change. This composition is a musical hurricane complete with rain, thunder, wind and even a calm eye of the storm before the storm returns even more powerfully. Oboe, clarinet, and trumpet solos are featured along with a powerful percussion section and booming lower voices leading to an intense finale that will keep one on the edge of his/her seat.

Zeus Awakened

A glorious and innovative medley comprised of Hark the Herald Angels Sing, We Three Kings, I Wonder As I Wander, O Come O Come Emmanuel, and Go Tell It On the Mountain that truly represent the spirit of Christmas. Energetic and contemplative. A must have for any band's library to celebrate the holiday.

The Joy of Christmas

This saxophone sextet, SSAATB, is a must have in any saxophone ensembles repertory. A challenging piece suitable for a concert setting.

Crossroads

<p>This is a five movement suite that pays homage to five Japanese icons, Cherry Blossom, Geisha, Haiku, Samurai, and Mt. Fuji. Each movement has it own character drawing on traditional Japanese music, scales, and theory, blended into Western style music. Each movement serves to create imagery of its subject. The final movement recalls the preceding ones with motifs, which is fitting because Mt. Fuji is the most famous cultural and spiritual icon of Japan.</p>

Land of the Rising Sun Suite

Hoist those beer mugs high and enjoy them while you can! This is a staple for Oktoberfest or any time of year that will delight your audiences. Totally fun to hear or play!

In Heaven There Is No Beer

This is a delightful, mid-nineteenth century polka originally written for orchestra, rearranged for concert band. Not one of the speedy polkas we are accustomed to hearing, this one has a more relaxed, light pace. It is a piece that can be enjoyed year round, but has a special place when Oktoberfest rolls around. The anvil is novel, but the optional glockenspiel fills in nicely and is easier to move around.

The Anvil Polka

A late Renaissance/Early Baroque ensemble transcribed and arranged for saxophone septet: SSAATBBs. Saxophones lend themselves well to this genre of music making this a pleasing rendition, suitable for concert programs.

Sonata

This arrangement is from Robert Schumann's Three Fantasies op. 111, published in 1851 during the Early Romantic Period, and is the third in that collection. The instrumentation here for saxophone ensemble is SAAATTBBs.

Fantasy Piece op. 111 No. 3

Saxophone Octet

A modern saxophone composition opening with a slow tempo before moving on to a faster tempo and a tenor sax cadenza. Works well in a serious concert setting.

Flashback

Saxophone Quartet-SATB

A totally fun piece for the saxophone family. Take a ride on a lame camel and be ready for lots of surprises. Try to keep a straight face while taking a musical journey stumbling through the desert because it will be impossible for your audience to keep itself together.

Lame Camel

This is a piece originally written for and recorded by The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra, a six piece saxophone ensemble (also available on JW Pepper) on their CD, Isotopia. It is a melodic piece based on an African rhythm in 6/4 time from the country of Niger. A memorable, expressive bass trombone solo is featured in the middle of the piece. This is a piece that is not common concert band repertory that will leave your listeners pleased and humming the melody to themselves.

N'ghirren

This is a solo piano piece with harmonies reminiscent of jazz and guaranteed to please your listeners.

A New Day

Piano Solo

A South African sangoma is a traditional healer and spiritual practitioner, often described as an African shaman, who plays a vital role in the community. They are believed to be called by ancestral spirits to serve as intermediaries between the living and the spirit world, , using divination, herbal medicine, and ritual to address physical, emotional, spiritual, and social ailments.This arrangement for concert band is adapted from the The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra's recording on its CD, Isotopia. It is a lively rendition of a traditional South African folk song, celebrating the highly revered sangoma. The arrangement is characterized by a lovely melody, driving percussion, and syncopated 3/4 rhythms with a 3 against 2 feel. A certainty to enhance a concert band's program.

Sangoma

This is an expanded version for concert band taken from the original arrangement recorded by The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra on its album, "Isotopia". The harmonic structure is based on "white key" music. Imagine hearing an organ in a huge cathedral and how it fills the space around it. A pensive, thought provoking piece of music that will surely delight the listener.

Sunday in Berlin

Depicting the course of life as a musical kaleidoscope, this piece evokes the emotions we experience throughout our lives utilizing carefully crafted changes in tonality. Moving forward from beginning to end, the tempo is unchanging, reflecting the unstoppable pace of the lives we live. Instrumentation: Flutes, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinets, Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Alto Saxophones, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Trumpets, French Horns (F), Trombones, Baritone BC, Tuba, Timpani, Chimes, and Percussion (Snare Drum and Suspended Cymbal).

Kaleidoscope of Life

Esel Lied (Donkey Song) is a fun piece for Oktoberfest events, or any time of the year, that is a true crowd pleaser. The song is a call and response arrangement that keeps your audience engaged and it features melodic, energetic solos for clarinet and trumpet.

Esel Lied

This is the arrangement recorded by The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra on its CD, Isotopia, for saxophone ensemble (SnoSATBCbs) with optional percussion. This is an opportunity to showcase the little used sopranino and contrabass saxophones in saxophone ensemble music.

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