Earl MacDonald’s music is available for purchase through eJazz Lines: http://www.ejazzlines.com/c932/c259/MacDonald-Earl-c3267.html
The following charts from the re:Visions CD are currently available:
Title: BAD DREAM
Catalog Number: WMP 51028
Category: Medium / Difficult Big Band
Level: Medium
Price: $50.00
Description: This humorous piece, based loosely on the harmony of “You Stepped Out Of A Dream”, was written for use with the many high school honor bands and all-state jazz groups MacDonald conducts. Medium-up tempo. Swing. No doubles (5,4,4,4). Features alto sax, piano, drums. Some conducting required.
Title: BU WHO?
Catalog Number: WMP 51025
Category: Medium / Difficult Big Band
Level: Difficult
Price: $55.00
Description: A tribute to Art Blakey (Buhainna). A hard-boppin’ chart which alternates between swing and Afro-Cuban feels. Medium up tempo. Reminiscent of the Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Features drums, trumpet, trombone, and piano. Alto 1 dbls flute, tenor 1 dbls soprano.
Title: CHARACTER DEFECT
Catalog Number: WMP 51030
Category: Medium / Difficult Big Band
Level: Medium – Difficult
Price: $55.00
Description: Hints of Romanticism are evoked by this contemplative, stirring piano feature. Vetted within the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop, this piece calls for woodwind doublings (3 flutes & 2 clarinets), fluegel horns, and a hefty bag of brass mutes. Medium difficulty.
Title: FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE CADILLAC CLUB
By: Bob Berg, arranged by Earl MacDonald
Catalog Number: WMP 51026
Category: Medium / Difficult Big Band
Level: Difficult
Price: $55.00
Description: As performed by the USAF Airmen of Note and Maynard Ferguson & Big Bop Nouveau. Winner of the Sammy Nestico Award High-energy shuffle composed by Bob Berg and arr by Ferguson’s former musical director, Earl MacDonald. Features guitar, B-3 organ (or keyboard) and drums. Optional parts for guest soloist included.
Title: JANA’S SONG
Catalog Number: WMP 51029
Category: Medium / Difficult Big Band
Level: Medium – Difficult
Price: $65.00
Description: Selected as a finalist for the 2007 BMI/Charlie Parker Jazz Competition Award, this gorgeous jazz waltz was originally written as a surprise for his wife on their wedding day. Lush sonorities are achieved with woodwind doubles and muted brass. Alto sax, trombone, flugelhorn and drum set are featured. The original sextet version was recorded by the Earl MacDonald 6 and features saxophonist Dick Oatts. (Sea Breeze Records SB 3072). See Otter cd category at www. otterdist.com. Medium difficulty.
Title: MEASURING UP
Catalog Number: WMP 51031
Category: Medium / Difficult Big Band
Level: Difficult
Price: $55.00
Description: Written just prior to the birth of his first child, MacDonald captures the anxiety and trepidation associated with “the pre-fatherhood jitters”. His creepy melodic material and pensive harmonic settings are underpinned by the drum style of contemporary, underground, electronic dance music. Woodwinds required. Solos for guitar, soprano sax, tenor sax and drum set. Selected as a finalist for the ArtEZ International Composition Contest in the Netherlands and premiered by the Millenium Jazz Orchestra. 5 saxes,Sop/Flute,Alto/Flute,Ten/Clar,Ten/Clar, 4 Trpts, 4 Bones, G,P,B,D. Difficult.
Title: MR. SUNSHINE
Catalog Number: WMP 51027
Category: Medium / Difficult Big Band
Level: Medium – Difficult
Price: $55.00
Description: Commissioned and programmed by USAF Airmen Of Note. Features flugelhorn and tenor sax. Woodwinds: flute, clarinet, soprano sax, tenor sax, bari sax. Contemporary, straight eighths groove.