(8 Brass) With a quirky name for a post-bop modal burner, this piece features tenor sax, alto sax and trombone. Cheesehead is a great way to either begin or finish a program. This chart is featured on the Dave Glenn Little Big Band recording Journeys.

View all charts by David Glenn

DAVE GLENN, Director of Jazz Studies and professor of low brass at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington received a Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance from North Texas State University and a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Northern Colorado. Dave Glenn spent 11 years as a professional trombonist in New York City. While there, he played for ten years with the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band and toured with Bill Watrous' Manhattan Wildlife Refuge; Diana Ross; Lou Rawls; Chuck Magione; Blood, Sweat and Tears and the Mel Lewis Orchestra. He has recorded with the Ed Palermo Band, the fusion group Cosmology, pop artist, Dean Friedman, blues artist, Rusty Cloud, and was on the Grammy-award winning recording, Walk on the Water, by the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band. Dave Glenn has also released a CD, Dave Glenn Little Big Band - Journeys, with Dean Music. He has also recently composed three works for orchestra. Christmas Fantasy for Orchestra and Jazz Sextet was premiered in December 1998 by the Walla Walla Symphony; A Day at Carnaval was premiered in April 2000 by the Mid-Columbia Symphony and Artist Portraits was premiered by the Walla Walla Symphony in March 2001. Mr. Glenn is an endorsing artist for C. G. Conn.