jBosserman marches are
listed on left navigation tabs in alphabetical order. Most marches have UTube embedded video slideshows
and various recordings. Key to March Recordings are coded after the march
name with the best recording available as follows: SS- Sounds of Sousa Band RC- Reynoldsburg Comm
Band CC- Columbus Comm Band BQ - Brass Quintet FBS - Full band software audio. Asterisks **Indicates
free parts are available (see below). # Indicates a mini score video.
Back toFree March Music Website With
links to over 500 march titles you can hear online, march music websites, Sousa, Fillmore, King, and more!
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FREE March Music
Limited offer good thru June 30, 2012.
Band Directors! I’ll
send you absolutely FREE (including shipping), the score and one each of the
concert band parts to any of one of over thirty marches.
You can copy all of the duplicate parts required for your particular band. Just email jbiz@columbus. rr.com or call 740-654-7702 with your request. I’ll include details of how to continue
getting free parts. Please include the following information in the email: (1) Your Name, (2) name of the band
you conduct, (3) address for sending CD/parts, (4) contact phone number, and (5) your band website address.
jB
All free marchs are listed below. (asterisks * indicates a CD march)
I wrote this march dedicated to World Vision 40hr Famine project based on a song by Australia's young performer
and vocal talent Jordan Jansen. "What Does Hunger Look Like." Jordan is 13 years old and been very active in the 40 hr Famine Website that promotes donations to help feed hungry children throughout the world. It's very seldom that you find a more selfless,
respectful, caring and talented young person. Visit his website! jB
A
CD of 18 jBosserman marches played by one of Ohio's outstanding
professional ensembles, the Sounds of Sousa Concert Band, now available at CD Baby. (All march preview on there site)
Click Pix to right -
CD Baby Website
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Album: American Heritage Original Marches
Excert
from a Review by Matthew Warnock
One of the biggest challenges
to making any concert ensemble recording is the logistics of recording such a large band, and the headaches of mixing and
mastering a record that provides an accurate sonic depiction.In both of these accounts this album is a
success.Not only is the record mixed and mastered in a way that portrays the large size of the ensemble,
it also maintains focus on the individual voices when necessary.This ensures that the power of the concert
band is felt by the listener, and also that the melody is never lost in the fray.Each instrument rings
through crystal clear, and the full range of dynamics that are utilized by the ensemble come forth from the speakers with
maximum effectiveness.It would be very easy for a bad recording session or mixing job to ruin an album
of this nature, but this is definitely not the case.In addition to the composer, bandleader and the musicians
themselves, the recording engineers and producer should be commended for their efforts.If not for their
hard work the musicality of the ensemble might have been lost in the mix.
Dr. Matt Warnock is a highly experienced music journalist, educator
and performer who has written books for Hal Leonard and Mel Bay, as well as hundreds of articles for Just Jazz Guitar
Magazine, All About Jazz.com and Modern Guitar Magazine. Currently, he is Editor in Chief for Guitar
International Magazine where, beyond his editorial duties, he has interviewed some of the biggest names in the business
including Robby Krieger, Ace Frehley, Brian Aubert , George Benson and John Pizzarelli. Matt is also Director of Guitar Studies
at Western Illinois University and the Executive Director of the WIU Guitar Festival.
Link back to Marchking Website!
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UTube Over 80 video Slideshows of jBosserman Marches (Includes several march scores)
NOTE:Any band interested in making a second CD recording of new marches
please contact me for details. jB
BIO
jBosserman
John Bosserman. age 85, is
a retired aerospace engineer and secondary school educator
who has composed over 75 marches as an amateur musician. His musical background started in high school and
continued during WWII in the 82nd Division Army Band. He later attended
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for one year in 1946-47 where he studied with one of
Sousa's solo cornet players,Frank "Doc" Simon, Later, in 1961-64 while a member of the North American
Aviation Band in Columbus Ohio, he had many discussions with Paul Bierley while Paul was working on his first Sousa biography book.
. In 2001John started writing marches as a hobby and to date has written over 65 march compositions..
Most of these can be heard on this website in various musical forms, and band parts can be downloaded in PDF form to
several of his marches for public practice or performance.
