Solo feature for Alto Saxophone, hip hop style with a Basie swing ending

Heavy funk tune based on a repeating interval row.

Classic Charles Mingus minor blues with a great riff and a tough post-bop head.

Afro-Cuban arrangement of the Ellington standard.

Original tune heavily influenced by the writing of Bob Brookmeyer.

Original latin tune loosely inspired by Cuban folk music. Score features optional notated rhythm section parts.

Classic Charles Mingus blues ballad, features tenor sax.

Standard Charles Mingus blues.

Very fun ballad by Kevin Kozol as performed by his band "Spare Parts".

Original modern style ballad featuring tenor sax and guitar.

Arrangement of the Monk standard using rhythmic variation and polytonality.

Arrangement of Tito Puente's theme song when he led the house band at Machito's. Fun and flashy salsa tune that goes through all 12 keys and features everyone in the band.

One of Charles Mingus's best known compositions, features bari sax.

Original composition taking themes and ideas from Chick Corea, Roy Hargrove and others.

Deconstruction of the original standard, presented as a theme and variations representing a commentary on romance. I promise I wasn't upset when I wrote this, and it's worth noting that I am happily married.

Original composition using a modern take on traditional New Orleans jazz ideas.

Original composition highly influenced by John Hollenbeck and David Morgan.

Charles Mingus composition poking fun at the "primitive" nature of his music.

Arrangement of a salsa standard with reharmonization to create changes that utilize the diminished cycle. Score features optional notated rhythm section parts.

Original composition mixing traditional cha cha and hip hop grooves. Small group version was winner of 2015 Jazz Palettes Composition Contest sponsored by the American Jazz Museum.

Rhythmic contrafact based on Louis Armstrong's iconic introduction to "West End Blues".