Quartets
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A Capella Saxophone Arrangements
All Blues
Chim Chim Cheree
The Christmas Song
Donna Lee/Back Home Again in Indiana
Go Daddy-O
Hot House/What Is This Thing Called Love?
Linus and Lucy
My Favorite Things
My Funny Valentine
Ornithology
Snakes
Some Skunk Funk, with optional drumset
Tenor Madness
There Will Never Be Another You
Tuesday Wonderland
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A Capella Saxophone Originals
Come What May
Cops and Robbers
Cuidado
Doctor Brother’s Music Box
Felices para siempre, with optional Latin percussion
FOURway Stop
Freer ör Edgier
The Gospel According to Mark
Got Somethin’ to Say
The House my Father Built
I Don’t Know What You Mean
I Got Nothin’ but Nothin’
It Might as Well
Jack the Giant Killer
Kayamjen
Lucy the Dog
Lullaby for Amy
Of Things Hoped For
Requiem
The Revival
Summer’s Evenin’
Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Forever
Trane of Thought
Vanilla Cream Soda
With Friends Like These
The Wrong Tree
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Double Saxophone Quartets
Ballad
Cuidado
Kilter
Lucy the Dog
There You Go Thinking Again (Jon Gudmundson, arranged by Watkins), with optional drumset
The Wrong Tree
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Saxophone Quartet with Rhythm Section
Chim Chim Cheree
Felices para siempre
FOURway Stop
I Got Nothin’ but Nothin’
Moment’s Notice
My Funny Valentine
On the Other Hand
Peas in a Pod
The Revival
Sunset in Sperlonga
There Will Never be Another You
The Wrong Tree
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Saxophone Quartet with Big Band
Chim Chim Cheree
Felices para siempre
Freer ör Edgier (8 brass)
Freer ör Edgier (10 brass)
The Getaway
Jack the Giant Killer
On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’ (8 brass)
On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’ (10 brass)
The Revival (8 brass)
The Revival (10 brass)
There Will Never Be Another You
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Saxophone Quartet with Big Band
With Concert Band
Chim Chim Cheree
Felices para siempre
Of Things Hoped For
With Friends Like These
On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’
With Orchestra
Chim Chim Cheree
On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’
Skylark (for tenor saxophone and strings)
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FOUR + Six
These compositions are for Saxophone Quartet plus trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, guitar, and drums.
Against My Desire to Imagine
Don’t Care Who Knows It
On Any Given Day in Summer
Shouldn’a Did That
Combos
Most combo compositions and arrangements are for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trombone, piano, bass, drums, and many add voice. They were written for the Rick’s College/BYU-Idaho Faculty Jazz Ensemble, Swingset. Other pieces are for saxophone, trumpet, and rhythm section written for the later BYU-Idaho Faculty group, Out of NoWhere, or for FOUR + Six.
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Combo Arrangements
Ain’t No Sunshine
Airegin
All Blues
Blocks
Caravan
Cheek to Cheek
Chim Chim Cheree
Dindi
Freddie the Freeloader
Hot House
I Mean You
It Don’t Mean a Thing
It Might as Well Be Spring
Liechtensteiner Polka
Moment’s Notice
My Favorite Things
My Funny Valentine
Night in Tunisia
One Note Samba
Over the Rainbow
Shaker Song
Snakes
Steeplechase
There Will Never Be Another You
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Combo Originals
Against My Desire to Imagine
Come What May
Doctor Brother’s Music Box
The Executioner is Looking Away
The Gospel According to Mark
Kayamjen
Of Things Hoped For
On the Other Hand
Sunset in Sperlonga
The House My Father Built
The Revival
Trane of Thought
Vanilla Cream Soda
Walkin’ Home
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Christmas Combos
The Christmas Song
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Silent Night
Winter Wonderland
Classical/Sacred Music
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Classical Transcriptions/Arrangements
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"Siciliana and Allegro for Tenor Saxophone and Concert Band", adapted from Concerto for Oboe and Strings as arranged by Arthur Benjamin (Domenico Cimarosa)
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"Concerto in E-flat Major for Tenor Saxophone and Piano, K. 191", adapted from Concerto in B-flat Major for Bassoon and Orchestra (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
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"Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Piano in B-flat Major, RV 503 (F. VIII, no. 35)", adapted from Concerto for Bassoon, Strings and Harpsichord (Antonio Vivaldi)
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Other Classical
All Things Bright and Beautiful, for choir (text by Thomas Morley)
The Atonement, for baritone voice and piano
Prelude and Fugue, for saxophone quartet
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Sacred Solos
Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains, for tenor saxophone and piano
Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning for soprano saxophone and piano
O, My Father, for alto saxophone and piano
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Other Classical
Abide with Me/More Holiness Give
Be Still my Soul (Melody from Finlandia by Jean Sibelius)
Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
Lead, Kindly Light
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Written for Dr. Watkins
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Classical Transcriptions/Arrangements
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (arranged by Paul Liversage)
Arkansas Power Surge, for Jon Gudmundson and Mark Watkins (Paul Elwood)
Blue Bossa, for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet (arranged by Russ Peterson)
Blue Pillars of Light, for FOUR (Paul Elwood)
Christening Blues, for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet (Russ Peterson)
Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra with Obbligato Piano (David DeBoor Canfield)
Fenella’s Jig, adapted for FOUR and the Richard Ingham Saxophone Quartet (Richard Ingham)
Gotta Match? Arranged for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet (Russ Peterson)
How Wondrous and Great, for Sound Alliance and Vocal Union (Nori Brower, orchestrated by Michael Merrill)
I’m Free, for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet (Russ Peterson)
It’s Santa, for Sound Alliance and Vocal Union (Greg Yazinitsky)
La Fiesta, for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet (arranged by Paul Liversage)
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet (arranged by Russ Peterson)
My Shining Hour, for Sound Alliance and Vocal Union (arranged by Darmon Meader)
Newstime, for FOUR and Saxitude (Robi Arend)
Rag and Toccata, for Oboe, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, and Bassoon (Tayloe Harding)
Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, for Sound Alliance (arranged by Greg Yazinitsky)
Silent Site, for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet (Russ Peterson)
Singular Vision, for solo alto saxophone and jazz ensemble (Greg Yazinitsky)
Suite for Adolphe, for tenor saxophone and piano (David Taylor)
To Be in Love, for FOUR and the Miami Saxophone Quartet (Gary Lindsay)
The Unstoppable Fear Machine (Kelly-Marie Murphy, consortium project initiated by Preston Duncan
Who Needs Enemies, for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet and Concert Band or Orchestra (Russ Peterson)
You’re the One, for the Hard-Bop Saxophone Quartet (Russ Peterson)
Other
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Jazz Ensembles
The Christmas Song
Come What May
Cops and Robbers
Felices para siempre
FOURway Stop
Freer ör Edgier
Go Daddy-O
The Gospel According to Mark
I Got Nothin’ but Nothin’
Jack the Giant Killer
Lullaby for Amy
On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’
The Revival
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Sunset in Sperlonga
The Wrong Tree
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Concert Band/Orchestra
Chim Chim Cheree
On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’
Skylark (for tenor saxophone and strings)
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Other Large Ensemble Works
Of Things Hoped For, for tenor saxophone and concert band
Skylark (for tenor saxophone and strings) (Mercer and Carmichael, arranged by Watkins)
Skylark (for tenor saxophone, voice, and strings)