(Level V) Tour-de-force show-stopper suite performed by the Buddy Rich Band. Includes I Loves You Porgy, I Got Plenty of Nothin', Bess You is My Woman Now, It Ain't Necessarily So and There's a Boat That's Leavin'. Features solos for tenor sax, bass trombone, piano, alto sax and drums. Recorded by the Paolo Nonnis Big Band on USA Music Group Records. Optional flute in both alto parts, 2nd tenor and baritone sax parts. Can be performed utilizing optional lower trumpet parts to reduce the range to E6. 7 Brass

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KEITH BISHOP has toured nationally and internationally as saxophonist and arranger/composer in the big bands of both Buddy Rich and Woody Herman. He has served on the faculties of both Duquesne and Carnegie-Mellon Universities in Pittsburgh; and recently completed a series of orchestrations for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. For the last few years he has toured as a member of the pit orchestra for the Broadway show Cats. Mr. Bishop currently resides in the Southern California area where in adition to composing and arranging, he is active as a woodwind player in the LA studios. His credits include the big bands of Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Bill Watrous, Jack Sheldon, Tom Kubis, Mike Barone and Steve Huffstetter.