Bob Curnow

Piazzolla wrote many beautiful melodies, and this one is perhaps the most haunting.  This version is a step higher than the "non-Pro" version. It is a flugelhorn solo throughout, with very reasonable...

This is a TERRIFIC tune, full of the happy, spirited, hip melodic and harmonic stuff that we've all come to love about Pat's music. A minor blues solo section is surrounded with a terrific mix of odd-...

Another great chart to add to the ever-growing Pat Metheny Series, Bob Curnow has arranged this down-right funk tune originally recorded on the PMG album We Live Here. Set in the pocket of a medium-sl...

Bob Curnow takes you on a sensational journey through 6/4 and 12/8 time with this new original composition commissioned by Lawrence University for the 2018 Fred Sturm Jazz Celebration Weekend. If you...

Here's another wonderful Pat Metheny composition arranged by Bob Curnow. This is a very playable chart with comfortable brass ranges and offers everything you have come to expect from a Metheny/Curnow...

This piece was originally recorded on the Still Life (Talking) CD and is a lovely bossa nova-ish style of chart. Bob Curnow lends his arranging expertise to this lovely Metheny melody and creates yet...

As commissioned (and recorded) by the SWR Big Band of Stuttgart, Germany, this is an extended arrangement based on a gorgeous melody by Pat Metheny. The saxophone players double on flute (sax 1), clar...

Here is another marvelous collaboration of Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays music as arranged for big band by Bob Curnow. The original recording by the Pat Metheny Group is on the CD Speaking of Now. The piece s...

Originally recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on their album Afrique, 'Kilimanjaro' is a mesmerizing, easy-feeling Latin composition which pulses along by the constant tumbao bass groove and infect...

Bob Curnow is well known for his many arrangements he has done of the music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays. Here is his take on one of the PMG's most popular tunes (finally). First recorded on the 'Off Ra...

A beautiful solo for Flugelhorn. Written for the young player, this lovely bossa nova ballad presents your best young trumpet player in a setting worthy of the most professional musician, but with a c...

The publication of this piece is dedicated to the memory of Manny Albam, the composer. Bob Curnow took the original orchestration (as recorded by Stan Kenton's Innovations Orchestra) and scored it for...

Bob Curnow continues to add the music of Pat Metheny to the Sierra Music catalog with another of Pat's unforgettable melodies, 'Et Si C'Etait La Fin' (originally recorded on the album Secret Story). S...

Bob Curnow has created a marvelous modal piece that opens with a fanfare in 6/8 and then moves into a lilting 3-4 swing tempo. There is solo space for alto sax and trumpet. The meter shifts from 3-4 t...

Every band from Tommy Dorsey to the Tonight Show Band to Ted Heath seemed to have a version of this great Sy Oliver tune. Bob Curnow compiled some of those versions into one great, new arrangement. It...

Arranged by Bob Curnow to be played by a 10-piece small band, this great medium-swing chart has outstanding ensemble writing. It features solo space for Tenor saxophone, Trumpet, Piano, and Drums. A g...

This Curnow original was inspired by the fact that there aren't a lot of bass features available for up-and-coming bassists. The tempo is set at about 100, and the chart opens up with your bass player...

As commissioned (and recorded) by the SWR Big Band of Stuttgart, Germany, this chart was inspired by the birth of the Curnows' newest grandchild. It opens with a shout, and settles into a free-swingin...

As arranged for the WDR Big Band, Rich DeRosa's arrangement of the traditional Christmas carol Hark, the 'Herald Angels Sing' is a light, happy, easy-swinging chart that is playable by almost any band...

This magnificent scoring of Carol of the Bells by Rich DeRosa (professor of composition/arranging at University of North Texas) was part of a long overture originally commissioned by the WDR Big Band,...

A four movement suite (Anthem, Dance, Lullaby, March) for unaccompanied trombone quartet. An internationally respected trombonist/educator has this to say: Thanks so much for sending me your Trombania...

This piece is a feature for solo flugelhorn (written for Fred Berry). It is a slow, pensive, lovely melody, set in an almost polytonal manner. Lots of lush sounds reminescent of Ellington and Kenton,...

A great Trombone Section feature in the mold of the very popular Writer's Cramp. Solo space for any or all trombonists or any of the other performers. (8 brass w/opt. 10) Full Score

Sensational performances from Bobby Shew, Steve Houghton, Bill Cunliffe, Don Rader, Bob Sheppard, Wayne Bergeron, Rob Lockart, Andy Martin and many others. This is a stellar performance of sensational...