Molenaar Edition

La Mer' (Beyond the sea) is a song written by French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet (1913 - 2001). Trenet wrote the lyrics of 'La Mer' on the train in 1943 while travelling alon...

'Mr. Bojangles' is a popular song written and initially recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker in 1968 and covered since by many other artists. The song was inspired by an encounter with a street performer in...

This arrangement of the bigband classic is based on the song as it was originally used in the film 'Swing Time' (1936) starring Fred Astaire. 'The Way You Look Tonight' won the Academy Award that year...

Fly Me to the Moon' was originally titled 'In Other Words', and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as 'Fly Me to the Moon'.

Children of Sanchez is the sixteenth overall album by jazz artist Chuck Mangione. It is also the soundtrack to the 1978 film Children of Sanchez, directd by Hall Bartlett starring Anthony Quinn. Chuck...

Groovy Tune is as the title suggests a tune with a heavy groove. An uptempo song for band who want to play funky music! It`s a short song based on a riff in the blues scale. The tempo is just a sugges...

Mezzoforte is an instrumental jazz-funk fusion band from Iceland, formed in 1977. Their biggest hit single was Garden Party (1983), taken from their fourth album (second international release) Surpris...

Henri Gerrits, respetado compositor y arreglista holandés, escribió "El alcalde tiene bigote" para un alcalde que se jubilaba. Gerrits es conocido por su versatilidad a la hora de componer y arreglar...

Henri Gerrits, respetado compositor y arreglista holandés, escribió "El alcalde tiene bigote" para un alcalde que se jubilaba. Gerrits es conocido por su versatilidad a la hora de componer y arreglar...

Who does not know this immortal classic of trad jazz? Why not throw an inflatable tiger in your concert hall?

Back to the thirties! Mr. Faust wrote an original light composition in the Ragtime idiom.

Back to the thirties... Since the Scott Joplin revival ragtime music has always been in. Revival Rag brings back to memory the music that was played during the Roaring Twenties in the U.S.A. That's wh...

The composer enjoys travelling around Europe by train. Trains have been his hobby since boyhood days - the days of steam engines. He saw a little train climbing the Col de la Croix Haute between Greno...

This optimistic message is the title of a popular song from the famous Monty Python film Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). Monty Python's Flying Circus was the name of a very popular British televi...

'1492 Conquest of Paradise' is a historical movie picture made by Ridley Scott in 1992, exactly 500 years after the discovery of the American continent. This film music composed by Vangelis became wor...

Ton van Grevenbroek wrote several arrangements of the very popular hits by the Alan Parsons Project, for wind band combined with a pop group (2 guitars and bass guitar) and piano. Just like 'Old and W...

'Music' by John Miles is one of the most popular pop songs of all times. Here is a magnificent arrangement for symphonic and fanfare band, with many shades and a sound quite near to the original. A ch...

The Lion Sleeps Tonight is based on the African melody 'Mbube', written in 1939. This melody can be heard in many various different forms all over Europe, for example in the popular musical 'The Lion...

In the late nineties Phil Collins led his own 'Phil Collins Big Band' for which he arranged his own compositions and this resulted in the famous compact disc 'A Hot Night in Paris'. 'Against all odds'...