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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Icology
- £20.00 – £25.00
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Solo Trombone
- Ironing
- £12.00 – £17.00
- Six exercises to help 'iron out' air flow, quality of sound and stamina. They've been extremely valuable to me for about fifteen years. See below.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone Quartet
- Kaleidoscope
- £40.00 – £45.00
- The world's first visual trombone quartet! See below for too many details.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trumpet & Trombone Duet
- Little Suite for Trumpet and Trombone
- £20.00 – £25.00
- The first movement of this piece can be found bigged-up as the first movement of Factions. Mike Allen (Co-Principal trumpet in the RPO) and I spent a month in 1988 touring round Germany with an American Company doing West Side Story. It was brilliant fun at that age, and we couldn’t care less that some of the venues were pretty…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trumpet & Trombone Duet, Trumpet and French Horn.
- Little Suite for Trumpet and Trombone
- £20.00 – £25.00
- Three very short movements, stately, dreamy then jolly, the whole thing is under 4 minutes. Grade V and above.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone Quartet
- Loopy Louise
- £15.00 – £20.00
- Loopy Louise is my wife Helen. On a train journey to Manchester, she suggested I write something for just mouthpieces, so that’s what this is. Or intended to be, anyway. It works much better on the whole instrument, and is an encore piece, containing 10 ways to say Goodbye, in about 90 seconds.
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- Big Band Ensemble, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Low Down and Dirty
- £15.00 – £20.00
- Quite the opposite of Speedbird, this is sleazy stuff. It sets off at a hell of a lick but soon collapses into a dark, smoky riff. The tenor sax takes a solo before being undertaken by the sultry baritone in its sultriest register. The piece builds with a huge crescendo, and ends as low and dirty as possible, on the…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Piano Pieces
- Minor Prelude
- £10.00 – £15.00
- This is my version of the famous Bach First Prelude, the Ave Maria one, but in C minor not major.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone Quartet
- National Anthems in the style of Lutoslawski
- £20.00 – £25.00
- Here are the Polish and British national anthems, closely entwined and used in some of Lutoslawski’s favourite techniques. This sounds intense, but is actually an attractive piece on the ear, and I enjoyed exploring it.
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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Navarra
- £25.00 – £30.00
- This was written for the Cory Composition Competition in 2019, and though it didn’t get anywhere, it has had its followers, and performances. Obviously a Spanish piece, there’s a section that evokes a Spanish guitar, with 6 instruments representing one open string each. It starts as a fiesta, with some flamenco clapping, then the guitar introduces the beautiful middle section,…
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- Guitar Duet, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- One and Two are Three
- £10.00 – £15.00
- A short, simple piece for student and teacher (see also Pete's Tune). Definitely has the feel of the song 'Inchworm', hence the title.
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- Brass Quintet, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- One and Two are Three
- £20.00 – £25.00
- The brass quintet version of a simple guitar piece.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone & Piano
- Pamięci Kaz
- £20.00 – £25.00
- Pam-e-ent-see Kaz. I wanted to call this piece ‘A tribute to Serocki’, but it translates better into Polish to say Pamieci, which is closer to ‘in memory of’. Kaz is a flippant shortening of Serocki’s first name, Kazimierz. And the piece is less in memory of the composer himself than a tribute to his Sonatina for Trombone, written in 1954…
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- Guitar Ensemble, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Pete’s Tune
- £15.00 – £20.00
- Pete Radcliffe was a history teacher at our school. He lived at the end of our road and was a keen guitarist. I’d started playing, and he introduced me to some of his favourites, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola. Pete didn’t take a guitar group at school but this piece was written very much with that in mind. …
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone & Piano
- Reaching For The Clouds – A Complete Trombone Recital
- £50.00 – £60.00
- The Recital. Eight brand new pieces for trombone and piano. If I’ve had a Big Idea in the last few years, this is it. I noticed, when at student recitals, that too much of the repertoire was the same stuff I’d been playing at college 30 years ago. To gain the contrast they needed for their performance, students are still…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone Trio
- Red Blue Yellow
- £20.00 – £25.00
- RBY is a piece of many colours, not just the three primary ones. I have tried to portray some facet of the tones you get when you mix two of the three colours on a palette, i.e. orange, green and purple/violet, and of course black, the dark heart of the piece when you mix all three colours together. Thus black…
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Trombone Sextet
- Romeo and Juliet in Space
- £20.00 – £25.00
- Another piece that’s more rock than classical really. In fact there is a version with drum kit, which is the version I always listen to. And another of my weird titles. It’s just because it’s lovey-dovey at the beginning and end, with what I then considered rather astral, floaty chords. The middle is all driving rock for trombones.
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- Brass Band, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Sea, Storm and Sunset
- £20.00 – £25.00
- After the intensity of 6845, a gentler piece, possibly for a youth band at 4 minutes. A relaxing sailing trip hits a storm thrown at it by Steve Reich, before the boat sails off into the sunset with a sultry flugel solo.
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- Brass Quintet, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
- Short and Suite for Brass. OR Wild West Suite.
- £20.00 – £25.00
- Here's a little brass quintet I did in 1998. This is easy listening, and not too hard to play either. I couldn't settle on a title, both seemed to suit the music well, see below. Grade VI upwards.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Solo Trombone
- Sight-Reading Studies, Book 1.
- £15.00 – £20.00
- 24 studies, to be sight-read then enjoyed! One in every key, graded between 1 and 10 for difficulty, and available in tenor, bass and brass band treble clefs.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Solo Trombone
- Sight-Reading Studies, Book 2.
- £15.00 – £20.00
- 24 studies, to be sight-read then enjoyed! One in every key, graded between 1 and 10 for difficulty, and available in tenor, bass and brass band treble clefs.
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- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, Solo Trombone
- Sight-Reading Studies, Book 3.
- £15.00 – £20.00
- 24 studies, to be sight-read then enjoyed! One in every key, graded between 1 and 10 for difficulty, and available in tenor, bass and brass band treble clefs.
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