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Compositions and Arrangements

Don Bowyer (b. 1958) has published more than 100 pieces of music with Walrus Music Publishing, eJazzLines, Cimarron Music Press, Ensemble Publications, and Sheet Music Plus. His two largest unpublished compositions are a Wedding Mass composed for his own wedding, and a Forty-Year Requiem, composed for the 40th anniversary of the passing of his mother.

All Compositions and Arrangements

All Classical

All Jazz

Jazz Big Band Music

Doody Duty

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 19 January 2023
Unpublished – Contact the Composer

Lockdown Blues

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 09 April 2021; Premiered: 12 October 2021
Unpublished – Contact the Composer

Fancy Pants Dance

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 10 July 2016; Premiered: 15 July 2016
Unpublished – Contact the composer

The Bare Necessities

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2016
Sheet Music Plus

My Funny Valentine

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2016
Sheet Music Plus

Too Soon

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 16 May 2013; Premiered: 19 May 2013
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Who Will Be Worthy?

Jazz Ensemble, Vocal
Completed: 01 June 2012; Premiered: 10 June 2012
Unpublished – Contact the composer

From the Joke of the Same Name

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 24 April 2010; Premiered: 14 November 2010
eJazzLines

Sueños Tropicales

Jazz Ensemble, Vocal
Completed: 24 January 2010; Premiered: 28 February 2010
eJazzLines

Time Doesn’t Fly Anymore

Arrangement – composed by Mike Murphy
Jazz Ensemble, Vocal
Completed: 24 January 2010; Premiered: 28 February 2010
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Music For A While

Arrangement – composed by Henry Purcell
Jazz Ensemble, Vocal
Completed: 24 January 2010; Premiered: 28 February 2010
eJazzLines

Bluesy Ballad

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 09 January 2010; Premiered: 28 February 2010
eJazzLines

Calle Sin Salida

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 02 October 2009; Premiered: 2009
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Forty-Year Requiem

2 Sopranos, Tenor, and Brass Ensemble
Completed: 23 March 2009; Premiered: 03 April 2009
Unpublished – Contact the composer

You’re the TOPS

Arrangement – traditional
Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 20 January 2009; Premiered: 11 February 2009
eJazzLines

I Hung the Moon Up There Just For You

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 07 January 2009; Premiered: 11 February 2009
Walrus Music Publishing

April Third

Arrangement – composed by Ken Watters
Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 05 March 2008; Premiered: 28 March 2008
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Sommerset Road

Arrangement – composed by Ken Watters
Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 03 March 2008; Premiered: 28 March 2008
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Shortstack

Arrangement – composed by Norman Duffell
Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 14 January 2008; Premiered: 14 February 2008
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Mi Vida

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 12 January 2008; Premiered: 14 February 2008
eJazzLines

Olga’s Song

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 07 January 2008; Premiered: 14 February 2008
eJazzLines

That’s My Light

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 05 January 2008; Premiered: 14 February 2008
eJazzLines

Sleep, My Little One, Sleep

Jazz Ensemble, Soprano, Choir
Completed: 2007; Premiered: 13 February 2007
eJazzLines

Psalm 150

Jazz Ensemble, Choir
Completed: 2007; Premiered: 13 February 2007
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Jan at Sunrise

Jazz Ensemble with Video
Completed: 2007; Premiered: 13 February 2007
eJazzLines

FF=Fortissimo

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2007; Premiered: 13 February 2007
eJazzLines

Marlies

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2006; Premiered: 12 February 2006
eJazzLines

Don’t Wanna Say the ‘Nother T

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2006; Premiered: 12 February 2006
eJazzLines

Sneakers Flexíveis

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2005; Premiered: 13 February 2005
eJazzLines

Ya Got Me!

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2005; Premiered: 13 February 2005
eJazzLines

Lullabye for EJH2

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 05 February 2004; Premiered: 08 February 2004
eJazzLines

Chocolate, No Chocolate

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 26 January 2004; Premiered: 08 February 2004
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Bugs & Gas

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 05 January 2004; Premiered: 08 February 2004
eJazzLines

Big Bad Baghdad Blues

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 22 December 2003; Premiered: 08 February 2004
eJazzLines

After Hours

Jazz Ensemble, Choir
Completed: 2003; Premiered: 11 October 2003
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Itchin' in the Kitchen

Jazz Ensemble with Solo and Group Vocals
Completed: 2003; Premiered: 11 April 2003
Unpublished – Contact the Composer

Whitesburg Bridge

Arrangement – composed by Ken Watters
Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2003; Premiered: 09 February 2003
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Eternal Love

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2003; Premiered: 09 February 2003
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Shreveport Mama

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2003; Premiered: 09 February 2003
eJazzLines

Repartee

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2003; Premiered: 09 February 2003
eJazzLines

Maitland

Arrangement – composed by George N. Allen
Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2003; Premiered: 09 February 2003
eJazzLines

Loving Us

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2003; Premiered: 09 February 2003
eJazzLines

Hey, Where You Frumba?

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2002; Premiered: 09 November 2002
Walrus Music Publishing

Love Is...

Jazz Ensemble, Choir
Completed: 2002; Premiered: 12 February 2002
Unpublished – Contact the Composer

Slow Dancing with Cindy

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2002; Premiered: 12 February 2002
Walrus Music Publishing

El Amor Cubano

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2002; Premiered: 12 February 2002
Walrus Music Publishing

Siboney

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2002; Premiered: 12 February 2002
eJazzLines

Wedding Mass

Jazz Ensemble, Choir
Completed: 2001; Premiered: 29 December 2001
Unpublished – Contact the composer

When the Saints Go Marching In

Arrangement – traditional
Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2001; Premiered: 22 June 2001
Walrus Music Publishing

Left Over Vowels

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2001; Premiered: 20 April 2001
Walrus Music Publishing

Dearest

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2001; Premiered: 13 February 2001
Walrus Music Publishing

Sax a Deux

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 2001; Premiered: 13 February 2001
Walrus Music Publishing

Shipwreck

Jazz Ensemble, Soprano
Completed: 1999; Premiered: 12 March 1999
Unpublished – Contact the composer

Bad Hair Day Blues

Jazz Ensemble
Completed: 1992; Premiered: 1992
Walrus Music Publishing

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