We perform regularly throughout Tennessee with our faculty brass ensemble, the Brass Arts Quintet, and I serve as principal trombonist of our professional orchestra in residence, the Bryan Symphony Orchestra. To hear sound samples from live performances of the Brass Arts Quintet, visit http://www.tntech.edu/brass/baq/sounds.asp. Excerpts from our latest CD recording are available at http://www.tntech.edu/brass/baq/Shazam.asp. My recent composition Road Rage for Brass Quintet was just selected for performance at the Appalachian State University Brass Chamber Music Forum, honoring the 50th anniversary of the New York Brass Quintet.

Here is a performance I did in October of 2000 as a guest artist with John Culvahouse and the University of Georgia Wind Ensemble of the first movement of Arrows of Time by Richard Peaslee. This re-orchestration was premiered by Joseph Alessi and the US Army Band at the 2000 Eastern Trombone Workshop. The premiere recording of the complete setting was done by Scott Hartman with the UGA Wind Ensemble on Triumphs and it was recently recorded by the Columbus State University Wind Ensemble with Bradley Palmer playing the trombone solo part on Wind Legacy. Both recordings are available on Summit Records.

Last year, Winston Morris and the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble released two CDs on Mark Records containing arrangements that I did for the ensemble. Carnegie VI, representing their historic 6th performance at Carnegie Hall, opens with a transcription of The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Handel. Play That Funky Tuba Right, Boy!, a recording of "Jazz, Pop, Funk, and Drool" contains both Sidewinder by Lee Morgan (euph and tuba solos composed by Joshua Hauser) and Sister Sadie by Horace Silver. Copies of these CDs are available for purchase from Winston Morris.

Trombones at Tech, the Tennessee Tech Trombone Choir, performs standard works for trombone ensemble as well as transcriptions and arrangements by our current students and alumni. A sampling of recordings by this 8-12 piece undergraduate ensemble consisting of both music majors and non-majors can be heard by checking out these links from live performances given on campus during the 2003-04 school year. Due to the nature of these concert recordings, the volume may be a bit quieter than in some of the other recordings on this page and there may be some delay at the beginning of each track.

"Legit" Tbn Ensembles

• mvt 1 of Marienlieder by Brahms/tr. Sauer
• Finale from Suita na 4 Puzony by Serocki
  performed by TROMBOTEAM!, a student trombone quartet
• Three Lassen Songs (Thine Eyes So Blue and Tender, All Souls' Day, and Resolution by Eduard Lassen/arr. Hauser
• Skin and Bones for Trombones and Percussion by William Brusick (TTU Alumnus)
• March, Waltz, Chorale, and Rondo or Finale from Trombone Quartet by Frackenpohl

Jazz Tbn Ensembles with Rhythm Section

• The Preacher by Horace Silver*
• Watermelon Man/Melon Dance by Herbie Hancock and Jack Gale*
  This setting uses Jack Gale's original quartet based on the chords to Watermelon Man as the shout chorus.
• Bones in the Closet based on Blues in the Closet by Oscar Pettiford. The shout is based on a recorded solo by by J. J. Johnson*
• TTU Hymn by Mrs. Everett Derryberry in a new jazz setting*

  *All of the jazz trombone arrangements on this page were written especially for Trombones at Tech by Joshua Hauser.

For further information, contact me at jhauser@tntech.edu or call 931/372-6086.