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Here's a catchy original tune on lyrics by Garth Bardsley that more advanced vocal jazz groups will appreciate. Swing rhythms and groove are vital to the big band style, with the playful lyrics expounding

This superb volume contains twelve transcriptions of orchestral, piano, and vocal originals, including works by Delibes, Gounod, Grieg, Eric Coates, and Madeleine Dring, arranged with a finely honed sense

This dynamic collection presents four jazzy settings of favorite madrigals by Thomas Morley, John Bennet, and Orlando Gibbons. The first, Sing We and Chant It, is a relaxed jazz waltz with a

A highly original and effective concert setting of the Latin Missa brevis in which the various movements embrace a variety of jazz styles. The characterful piano accompaniment can be played as written or

In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form,

This piece sets the text of a well-known 16th-century madrigal of the same name by Thomas Morley in a jazz waltz style. This is a selection from the four-movement work Little Jazz Madrigals

The shades of Finzi and Vaughan Williams are strongly present in these three delightful unaccompanied choral settings, and yet the style and execution are wholly Rutter's own. O Mistress Mine is a

Christina Rossetti's poem is blended with a relaxed contemporary a cappella jazzy musical style in this unique concert work. Growing from three- to six-part harmony, the swing rhythms and style made famous