Bill Dobbins

Includes CD, featuring play-along and complete versions: Ramon Ricker, alto saxophone; Bill Dobbins, piano. A moody impressionistic piece set in a rhythmic 9/8 Latin groove with a good balance of comp...

The chorales and solo suites of Johann Sebastian Bach inspired Remembering the Master. In general, the dynamics and phrasing are left to the performers, as was the case in Bach's manuscripts. Performe...

Mbira Magic was inspired by a beautiful and powerful song for voice and mbira by the Rhodesian musician Simon Mashoka.

The notated transcriptions must be a landmark of sorts. These solos give a real sense of how David Liebman and Richie Beirach approach music individually, and as a duet.

These piano preludes have developed from my longtime love of the music from both the classical and jazz traditions. I have intentionally adopted a format which may or may not include improvisation. Th...

Six preludes for solo piano using vocabulary from both the classical and jazz traditions.

Six preludes for solo piano using vocabulary from both the classical and the jazz traditions. Prelude XIII (G flat) focuses on a lovely right hand melody that sits on top a constantly shifting set of...

Song for Jaco is a warm and lyrical ballad of Peter's, which is dedicated to the legendary electric bassist, Jaco Pastorius. Solo contributions are heard from the lead trumpet, the baritone saxophone...

Prism is a modal composition which is based largely on several reharmonizatios of a simple 8-bar melody. It is a jazz waltz and features the lead alto sax. Correlated with Vol. 1 of the Jazz Workshop...

This arrangement of a great Peter Erskine tune is a real tour de force for the entire ensemble, and always brings the audience to its feet. It features solo space for trombone, soprano sax, piano (or...

Clare Fischer originally recorded Strayhorn in 1962 with his trio on Surging Ahead. We have asked Bill Dobbins to arrange it as a piano feature. He completely wrote out the solo piano part so that it...

A medley of What Child Is This? (Greensleeves), The First Noel, and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is developed through fresh and colorful harmonic variations. The chromatic harmonies and changes in temp...

Legendary jazz composer, arranger and saxophonist Bill Holman discusses his life, career and views on music with Bill Dobbins, professor at the Eastman School of Music. Holman speaks about his persona...

Band 4 mit Variationen zu Stücken von James P.Johnson, Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Th. Monk, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, mit Erläuterungen A Comprehensive Approach to Keyb...

A beautiful series of harmonic variations on this well-known Christmas favorite is developed with modulations through several different keys, featuring the individual instruments in both solo and ense...

A beautiful series of harmonic variations on this well-known Christmas favorite is developed with modulations through several different keys, featuring the individual instruments in both solo and ense...

Elegy is dedicated to the memory of Bill Evans, certainly one of the most important pianists in the history of jazz, and a personal favorite of mine. It features the piano, both in written statements...

Storico trattato di Bill Dobbins, tradotto in italiano da Roberto Spadoni. Si tratta di un ottimo strumento per l'approfondimento dell'arrangiamento per combo jazz (da 2 a 5 fiati e sezione ritmica),...

Song for Jaco is a warm and lyrical ballad of Peter's, which is dedicated to the legendary electric bassist, Jaco Pastorius. Solo contributions are heard from the lead trumpet, the baritone saxophone...

This arrangement of a great Peter Erskine tune is a real tour de force for the entire ensemble, and always brings the audience to its feet. It features solo space for trombone, soprano sax, piano (or...

Burungkaka is an Indonesian folk song which is known throughout Malaysia. It is about an old parrot which sits near the window, singing. The children make fun of it in a good-natured manner. Originall...

This CD is the result of Bill Dobbins' lifelong love of music from both the classical and jazz traditions. Hear him perform his six original compositions as well as four jazz standards by Duke Ellingt...

Die ersten vier Stücke stammen aus Studioproduktionen mit Peter Erskine und die letzten vier aus einem Live-Konzert im Stadtgarten, einem lokalen Club in Köln und einer von mehreren Veranstaltungsorte...

This is definitely not a harmonic system for those who are looking for rules by which to write music. Rather this is an approach to unlocking the limitless harmonic possibilities which are unique to t...

Bye-Ya (Thelonious Monk): A bebop classic, performed in the true spirit of Monk's unique stylistic approach. Arranged for trombone and tenor sax. Con Alma (Dizzy Gillespie): Harmonically and rhythmica...