After forty years directing jazz, marching, and concert bands at New Trier High School (Illinois) and Lakewood High School (Ohio) with its 75-minute commutes in Illinois (while raising a family)... I've had no time to pursue two projects that I've envisioned for years.              WAIT FOR IT




Project 1: Concert/Field-Tested Arrangements, Compositions and Commissions

I'm finally able to offer thirty of the many charts I've arranged for jazz ensemble, marching band, and concert band since high school — written for junior high through college bands and performed by concert bands and the All-District/All-State groups I've directed.  My marching band charts have been performed by the marching bands at Ohio University, University of Oklahama, University of Minnessota, Ohio State University and others.  All charts are $40 each (PDF scores and parts), and can be rescored to fit your instrumentation upon request.
 

I now also have time to do commissioned charts for jazz or marching bands written to showcase your band's strengths, and the opposite. (Director's understand that comment.) If you decide not to use the music then the cost will be refunded.

Project 2:  "A Jazz Chart Searcher"

 

When I started teaching, it was impossible to know about all the available jazz ensemble music — until now. This AI-assisted, free-to-access, copyrighted database solves that. It has a 9,740 monthly-updated, interactive database of currently published charts from 30 global publishers, with eleven sortable and searchable fields (title, arranger, composer, publisher, year, difficulty, style, duration, tempo, price, and Buy/Hear/See links to each publisher's page). Just push a button to highlight the charts published since October 1, 2026. There's a smartphone app for your 2 a.m. search when you just have to know NOW what's available.
Hint: There's great jazz band music being published outside the USA!
 

This Searcher will be available through Sept. 1, 2027. After that its future depends on traffic and user feedback.
 

Are you a jazz arranger or composer of big band music? Contact me about being listed in this SEARCHER alongside the legacy music publishers — at no cost. Also use the SEARCHER to find an origional title for your new composition, or locate music for a tribute concert to an arranger or composer, etc.
 

Jazz Teaching Resources
 

There is a link to searchable by genre of eighty videos by legendary jazz performers for your students to study; a handout for beginning soloists; Finale score playthroughs; sample parts  and play-along MP3s of solo sections for students to practice at-home.​