Composition List

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Large Jazz Ensemble

Crown and Cradle* (Listen to the premiere)

Jazz Orchestra

2008

Untitled Vocal Ballad

Jazz Orchestra

2008

Gypsy Children

Jazz Orchestra

2007

Mad Hatter's Looking Glass

Jazz Orchestra

2007

Spirit Processional*

Jazz Orchestra

2006

Untitled

Jazz Orchestra

2006

Devil's Postpile

Jazz Orchestra

2005

Natural Selection

Jazz Orchestra

Chrysalis

1999

Anthem

Jazz Orchestra

1999

Natural Selectiondb

12-piece Jazz Orchestra

1999

Abessa

Jazz Orchestra

1997

Garden Of Silk

Jazz Orchestra

1997

Southlanddb

Jazz Orchestra

1996

Grilling with Uncle Bill

Jazz Orchestra

1995

arr., Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk)o

2001

arr., Killer Joe (Benny Golson)

Jazz Orchestra

2000

arr., Tin Tin Deo (Walter "Gil" Fuller)

Jazz Orchestra/singers

1998

arr., India (John Coltrane)

Sitar/Jazz Orchestra

1997

Small Jazz Ensemble

Paper Train

Jazz Quartet

2004

Chant

Jazz Quartet

2002

Missouri Blues

Jazz Quartet

2002

Riverwalk

Jazz Septet

1998

Zoraya

Jazz Quintet

1998

Imitate, Primate, Imitate!

Jazz Quintet

1997

Sketch on a Theme by Alban Berg

Jazz Quintet

1996

Blues in Jackson Square

Jazz Quartet

1996

Market Equilibrium

Jazz Sextet

1995

Passage

Jazz Quintet

1995

Looking Up

Jazz Quintet

1995

Untitled

Jazz Quartet

1995

Metropolis

Jazz Quartet

1995

Night Falls

Jazz Quintet

1995

Please Pick Up the White Courtesy Telephone

Jazz Quintet

1995

Good Morning, Mrs. Crabtree

Jazz Quintet

1994

Kick a Few Leaves

Jazz Quartet

1994

Home Cooking

Jazz Quintet

1993

Gypsy Children

Jazz Quintet

1992

What Gives

Jazz Quartet

1992

arr., Giant Steps (John Coltrane)

Jazz Quartet

2005

arr., A Beautiful Friendship (Styne/Kahn)

Jazz Quartet

2004

arr., Killer Joe (Benny Golson)db

Jazz Septet

1999

arr., Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk)

Jazz Quintet

1997

arr., Love for Sale (Jerome Kern)o

Jazz Voice/Sax Quartet

1997

Chamber Music

Crab Canon for Infinite Saxophoneso

Saxophone Ensemble

2007

arr., Nine Songs By Charles Ives

  • I. The Children's Hour
  • II. from The Swimmers
  • III. Spring Song
  • IV. Elegie
  • V. At The River
  • VI. Vita
  • VII. Walking
  • VIII. Remembrance
  • IX. Charlie Rutlage

Saxophone Quartet

2007

We Fall...We Riseo

Saxophone Ensemble

2006

Montoya's Time in Orissao

Flute, Guitar, Cello

2005

arr., Pno. Concerto #5, mvt. II (Beethoven)

Woodwind Sextet

2001

arr., Adios Nonino (Piazolla)

Woodwind Sextet

2001

Vertical Circleso

Alto Saxophone and Piano

2000

68th & Columbus

Saxophone & Found Sound

2000

Industrial Strength Accelerator

Percussion Duo

1997

Variations on a Cantiga

Solo Piano

1997

Trio for Strings*

  • I.
  • II.
  • III.
  • IV.

Violin/Viola/Cello

1996

Oliander

Percussion Ensemble

1996

Sketch

Tenor Sax/Marimba

1995

Threw the Door

Soprano/Violin/Piano

1994

Carpenter

Bassoon/Horn in F

1993

Imagine Your World*

Alto Sax/String Quartet

1993

Vocal

Wildflower

Pop Voice, Rhythm

2001

A Hero's Light (In Memory 9-11)

Voice, Piano, Sax

2001

Inside In, Inside Out (ASCAP Winner)o*

Vocal Quartet + Rhythm

1999

Twilighto*

Concert Choir

1996

arr., Tin Tin Deo (Walter "Gil" Fuller)o

Jazz Orchestra/singers

1998

arr., Love for Sale (Jerome Kern)o

Jazz Voice/Sax Quartet

1997

Orchestral

Andalucian Legendo

Concert Band

2004

Untitled

Contemporary Ensemble

1999

Three Picture Postcardso

Concert Band

1998

Fantasy Episodes*

Full Orchestra

1998

Return to Atlantis*

Concert Band

1991

Second Wind*

Concert Band

1990

Film/Commercial Music

Hip Hop Instrumental Demo 1

MIDI/sax loops

2005

Hip Hop Instrumental Demo 2

MIDI

2005

from The 3 F's: "Bedtime"

Guitar/Violin

2004

Slow Organ Groove

Guitar/Organ

2004

Hip Hop Ensemble (Mojahva)

Live band/DJ

2003

Easy Listening: The Movie

Live Symphony Orchestra

2003

Both Ends of The World

Violin/Electronic Orch.

2002

Electronics Demo

Electronics/Mixed Ensemble

1999

Children's

Compound Words

Voice, Clarinet, Rhythm

2003

The Rainbow Orchestra

Narrator, Orchestra

2003

My Favorite Instrument

Voice, Orchestra, Piano/Bass

2003

The Nonsense Song

Voice, Guitar

2003

The Backwards Alphabet

Voice, Rhythm Section

2002

Jellyfish Jazz Band

Voices, Tenor Sax, Rhythm

2002

The Monkey Family

Voice, Perc., Bass, Kalimba

2002

The Note Zoo

Voice, Rhythm

2002

The Onomatopoeia Song

Voice, Perc., Bass, Kalimba

2002

The Snack Song

Voices, Percussion

2002

Musical Theater

Selections from THE GOLD WUTAHKEE: The Musical (Lyrics by Jefferson Arca, Helena Webb, and Chris Gilbert; Music by Javier Arau)

Someone Went Back

Latin

2004

I'm On My Way

Disney Lite

2004

Try Me

Lounge/Duet

2004

The Gold Wutahkee

Opening Number

2004

Someone Went Back

Latin

2004

I'm On My Way

Disney Lite

2004

Try Me

Lounge/Duet

2004

Bollywoggahooganagganook

Vaudeville

2004

My Pain

Slow Blues

2004

There's Something in This Girl

Polka

2004

Old One Eye

Rock/Acid

2004

New Love

Ballad Duet

2004

Too Too Much

Ensemble Piece

2004

Not My God

Rock Ballad

2004

 
 indicates a commissioned work db Down Beat Magazine Award Winner
* Award Winner (various)  links to an audio sample