Active Measures is a classic straight ahead swing chart with bebop overtones. Cup mutes are featured throughout the brass and instantly place the listener "...
Aria, as the title suggests, is a beautiful melodic feature for alto sax. In addition to the haunting tune, Rick Lawn has fashioned subtle supportive ensemble...
Catalyst is a fun, challenging piece that requires skill and musicality from all players. It is meant to portray the action of a "catalyst," which can be...
A high energy thriller working both sides of the street. Streetwise by day and suave and sophisticated by night. This chart covers all the bases from the...
Four Architectures in Normal, Illinois is a dynamic and colorful exploration of "the elements", four adjacent architectural works of art on the Illinois State...
This steel drum band selection, for four players plus drum set, creates an easy going mood typical of the steel drum idiom. Program notes inform us this piece...
A dramatic and modern Thad Jones style take on an extended blues form makes for a challenging chart for everyone. Beginning with the opening glissando and...
With an incessantly dark, ritualistic quality coupled with a metallic sparkle, Magic takes its title from the concept of magic as a powerful and unknowable...
A Sacred Suite is a three-movement work inspired by traditional American shape-note songs. The first movement is a fanfare, the second is a beautiful slow tune...
Rick Lawn brings us a funky take on a stretched out blues form with a slippery melody and sophisticated harmonies. All goes according to plan through the...
