Proverbs 4

Bass trombone feature.  Dedicated to bass trombonist Jay Roberts and Brigham Young University Synthesis Jazz Band, Ray Smith, director.

Garapan is a Javanese word meaning "the working out of the music."  In the Javanese gamelan tradition, musical compositions are mere skeletons of ideas that have a flexible structure.  This allows

Commissioned by Brigham Young University Synthesis and Ray Smith and winner of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award.  A clever nod to the tune "Loch Lomond"set with a 7/8 shuffle funk second-line new

Inspired by an ancient tradition of Chinese landscape painting where artists intentionally left blank spaces on the canvas with the idea that viewers would imagine something to fill in the space and thereby

Dedicated to Brent Wallarab and the Indiana University Jazz Ensemble.

This work was commissioned by the Indiana Bandmasters Association for the 2020 Indiana All-State Honor Band. The request was for a "muscle" piece, a significant work that would challenge and push the