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24 capriccio's voor viool solo

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

Ticking Time : for tenor saxophone, soundtrack and video / Jacob ter Veldhuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring: sax-t soundtrack (concert video ad lib)

Billie : for alto saxophone with multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring: sax-a pf (ad lib) soundtrack (concert video ad lib.)

Salomon's sound-houses : 2006 / Roderik de Man

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone; Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring: sax-4 electronics

composition

Buku : for alto saxophone with multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Author(s):
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
Most of my works with soundtracks are based on speech grooves. But Buku is mainly based on short musical sound bytes: a hit, a roll or a lick, taken from original jazz recordings: inspiring moments of great intensity, energy and beauty. Buku is about the soul of the alto sax and at the same time it is a tribute to three alto giants: Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley and Art Pepper. Meet them in Buku!
The title ‘Buku’ refers to a remark by Charlie Parker about Dizzy Gillespie in an interview with Paul Desmond. Nobody seemed to know what Parker is referring to. Probably Parker said ‘beaucoup’, the French word meaning ‘a lot’, so Dizzy was playing a lot…