A selection of Roger Aldridge's original music can be heard at rogeraldridge.com. In addition, to recordings and videos, the new site includes the latest news about his music projects, biography, articles, and a page having a featured composition each week.
One of the articles at Roger's site describes his concepts of writing for mid-size jazz ensemble. As he envisions it, a mid-size ensemble can be approached in fundamentally different ways than with a conventional big band. That is, going beyond a little big band" concept. Roger has written a series of scores for mid-size ensemble. They use flexible instrumentation to enable the music to be performed by many configurations of instruments.
Roger's website was designed to be active, updated at least weekly, and to encourage interaction between visitors and Roger.
One of the articles at Roger's site describes his concepts of writing for mid-size jazz ensemble. As he envisions it, a mid-size ensemble can be approached in fundamentally different ways than with a conventional big band. That is, going beyond a little big band" concept. Roger has written a series of scores for mid-size ensemble. They use flexible instrumentation to enable the music to be performed by many configurations of instruments.
Roger's website was designed to be active, updated at least weekly, and to encourage interaction between visitors and Roger.