We now have audio samples of some of the arrangements below:

Amazing Grace

Double click below to hear the full orchestra recording of this arrangement:

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

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Are You Washed In the Blood Medley

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Double click below to hear the 8 Core version of this arrangement:
(This version only contains Flute 1, Clarinet 1, Trumpet 1 & 2, Horn 1, Trombone 1 & 2 and Tuba(Bass Trombone)

How Firm A Foundation

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I Surrender All

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Lead On O King Eternal

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Double click below to hear the 8 Core version of this arrangement:
(This version only contains Flute 1, Clarinet 1, Trumpet 1 & 2, Horn 1, Trombone 1 & 2 and Tuba(Bass Trombone)

Rejoice the Lord Is King

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Softly and Tenderly

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Revive Us Again

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Trust and Obey

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For more information or if you are ready to order the complete set of 10 arrangements for only $400(saves you $100), click here.

The 8 Core Orchestra Series is a full orchestra instrumental series based around an 8 core group of players plus piano/rhythm.

The 8 core players are:

2 woodwinds
2 trumpets
1 horn
2 trombones
1 bass trombone or tuba

All of the melody parts are covered in these 8 core players’ parts. But these are full orchestra arrangements.

The complete orchestration is:
2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon/bass clarinet, 3 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones, 1 bass trombone/tuba, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, harp, percussion (2 players), timpani, piano, electric bass, guitar(s), drums and 4 different string reduction parts.

One of the key benefits to this series is that it can grow with your group! You may start with a small, mixed instrumental ensemble, but as you add more players and your group grows, they will have parts to play in this series.

The other main key benefit to this series is PLAYABILITY!!! AnderKamp Music is known for its creative, fresh and sometimes challenging instrumental arrangements. We’ve kept the creative and fresh ideas but we’ve made this a PLAYABLE series by groups of all levels.

The 8 Core Orchestra Series features:
• Friendly keys
• No extreme registers
• No funky, tricky rhythms
• No crazy, fast string passages

You should be able to play these arrangements with MINIMAL REHEARSAL TIME!

Click here to order today!

The AK Little Big Band is a high energy, diverse and festive series of arrangements for Christmas. Talking about diversity, here are some samples from the project:

Jingle Bells (it’s that New Orleans sort of vibe)

Away In a Manger(slow beautiful ballad)

We Wish You a Merry Christmas (a PERFECT closer to a concert or service-you can absolutely do this slower than the recording. We took it fast just because the guys in Nashville could do it-It’s a great goal for your players)

Recorded with a full big band, this series will work if you just have 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 2 saxes and rhythm (hence the ‘little big band’ name)

For all of us ‘visual’ people, here’s more information about the project described via video.

For more information about this series and to order the complete set, click here

Have different groups play Christmas music in the lobby every Sunday in December and you’ll help set the tone for the worship service.

A brass group is one of the easiest groups to pull together. Whether it be from your orchestra, from making an nnouncement in the bulletin looking for brass players or going out in the community to high schools and colleges/universities and inviting folks to play, there ARE brass players out there who would LOVE to play at Christmastime!!!

Our most popular Christmas brass series, A Season for Brass, was designed specifically for that purpose.

Here is a video telling you more about the series (and letting you hear samples)

For more information about this series, click here

We now have written out piano parts for the entire series. Written out piano parts have been a much tool to help the local churches in being able to play these exciting arrangements and we finally have them!

If you are looking for high energy Christmas arrangements, this series is for you!

You can listen to a couple samples here:

Jingle Bells (this is the vocal version)

O Holy Night (this is the trombone version)

We Wish You a Merry Christmas (this is the vocal version and HANG ON!)

If you are looking for ENERGY and EXCITEMENT this holiday season, this is THE project for you! Whether you are opening the services with a ‘Bang’ or if you’re wanting to do an outreach concert in the community, the AK Little Big Band series (now with written out piano parts) will help let all “Heaven and Nature Swing”!

For more information and to purchase the series, click here

¡Three Amigos!

written by David Scott
(excerpt from Devotions for Guys Who Like Movies)

2 Timothy 1:7-8 (NIV)
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.

“In a way, all of us have an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo who also happens to be the actual El Guapo.”

Those are the words Lucky Day (Steve Martin) used to challenge and inspire the village of Santa Poco to face its fear and defend itself against the fierce bandit, El Guapo. Ultimately, the Amigos convinced Santo Poco to defend itself with the resources and abilities it possessed.
The Apostle Paul reminded a young pastor, Timothy, who was facing opposition, that there were resources available to him that would enable him to face his fears. The Holy Spirit was available to Timothy to help him overcome any fear that might keep him from being effective for the Father.    The same resource that was available to Timothy is available to us.

As we seek to serve God, we can count on the Holy Spirit to help us overcome fears when others oppose us. Santo Poco used its resources to face its El Guapo. Just as Timothy used the resource of the Holy Spirit to face his fears, we can too.

Here is a video clip of that scene from the movie:

this devotional taken from Devotions for Guys Who Like Movies

Apollo 13

written by Jimmy Myers
(excerpt from Devotions for Guys Who Like Movies)

Isaiah 42:16 (NIV)
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) was telling a newsman the story of flying his fighter jet back from a raid during the Vietnam War. There was apparently an electrical malfunction and all the lights in his cockpit went out. There was no light at all. He couldn’t see his instruments, his compass, or any other navigational gages, and he was running low on fuel. But come to find out, BECAUSE there was absolutely no light, it was dark enough for him to be able to see the trail of phosphorescent algae that is churned up after the passing of a big ship… like his home aircraft carrier. He recounted that he was able to follow the glowing ribbon of light in the darkness, and it led him straight home.

Many times we are so intimidated by the darkness of our lives that we fail to notice God in the midst of the blackness. His promise through the prophet Isaiah is that He will turn our darkness into light before us and make the rough places in our lives smooth. Jesus echoed those words when He said that He would never leave us nor forsake us…Never! No matter how dark life may become. James said that we should count all the trials that we experience as pure joy because they are for our ultimate benefit.

I think that God is reminding us that sometimes we need life to be pitch black, so that we can see the light of His path for us. Sometimes it’s when there is no other light at all that we are able to more clearly follow His desires and purposes. Sometimes, we who are blinded by the darkness need to be led down unfamiliar paths for His Glory…and our ultimate benefit. Whether it makes sense to us or not.

Here is a video clip of that memorable scene (stop the clip around 1:38)

this devotional taken from Devotions for Guys Who Like Movies

Moving along, in college at Pensacola Junior College (now Pensacola State College), we had Bobby Shew come in as a guest for the Pensacola Jazz Festival and our jazz band director let me be Bobby’s driver for the weekend. I had a lot of time in the car, going back and forth etc to talk with Bobby which was amazing. And his flugelhorn playing….THAT WAS IT!!!! No question…That’s a Glen Miller sound moment for me.

I’ve played a lot of solos in churches throughout the years, but it’s always difficult to find arrangements that really work for trumpet (and other solo instruments). I can honestly say that it has been my dream to play a solo flugelhorn with a full orchestra backing me for years. I figured that if I’m looking for that sort of arrangement, so are other trumpet/flugelhorn players.

So here is our new Solo Plus Series!

We are introducing this series with a tribute to Bobby Shew. In my mind, this is the type arrangement Bobby might play of Silent Night. My good friend, and first call session trumpet player, Steve Patrick played flugel on the recording and we really did it as a homage to Bobby.

You can listen to it here:

Along with music for trumpet/flugelhorn in Bb Treble Clef (also could work for Soprano Sax/Tenor Sax/Baritone), we provide a C Treble Clef (Flute/Oboe), Eb Treble Clef (Alto Sax) and a C Bass Clef (Trombone/Baritone) solo part so you could feature whichever soloists is most appropriate for your orchestra.

Instrumentation is:

Solo written out in C Treble, Bb Treble, Eb Treble, C Bass

Flute  1-2, Oboe, Clarinet 1 & 2, Horn 1-3, Trumpet 1-2, Trombone 1-4(Tuba), Violin 1-2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Bells(Glockenspiel), Timpani, Harp, Rhythm, written out Piano, written out Upright Bass, String Synth 1 (Violins & Viola), String Synth 2 (Cello & Ac. Bass), Alto Sax 1-3 (sub for Horn 1-3) and Tenor Sax 1-2 (sub for Trombone 1-2)

To purchase the complete orchestration to this arrangement, click here.

You can purchase the demonstration recording here to listen to (only $1.49).

You can purchase the accompaniment track here to practice with and perform to.

If you’re just performing with the accompaniment CD, you can purchase only the solo parts here.

This arrangement is a nod to both Clifford Brown With Strings and one of the great living legendary flugelhorn players, Bobby Shew. I hope you enjoy it.

Be it a church, a symphony, a school orchestra or even civic orchestra, you will LOVE playing this beautiful arrangement!

BUT…it is always humbling when others use my arrangements and I get the opportunity to hear them. The TRUTH 40 tour that is happening right is a perfect example. They asked me to write all the horn arrangements for the tour and I went down to Sherwood Baptist in Albany, GA to hear the first concert/DVD taping. It was incredibly humbling to hear them playing my arrangements quite simply because I’m not making them play them. They chose to. It truly is a great honor.

This last week, I had another one of those experiences. Ben Roundtree from McLean Bible Church in the Washington D.C. area sent me videos of their string ensemble performing two of my arrangements from our Strings & Things – Volume 1. They did a great job playing the arrangements! Like I said, it’s incredibly humbling when someone else chooses to purchase my arrangements, play them, video them AND put the videos up on YouTube. Ridiculously humbling…and really cool to me too.

I can try and describe my arrangements with words as much as possible (and I’m a wordy guy), but I would much rather let Ben and the strings from McLean Bible Church show you what the arrangements sound like. Thanks guys! Truly great job!

For more information on Strings & Things – Volume 1, click here

The defining moments in our lives. Many times, they are not defined until you have lived through them. Sometimes though, you know when you are in the middle of the moment that something is happening.

May of 1992 was one of the “I know something is happening’ sort of moments. As a Christian trumpet player growing up in the 70s/80s, I knew and loved TRUTH. The idea that I could use my gifts as a trumpet player in a group was a truly awesome thing. I went to a concert in Niceville (drove over from Pensacola) with my trumpet and auditioned before the concert to play in the group. I found out I made it and that I needed to be ready to leave the next morning from Mobile on the bus.  Needless to say, it was a crazy night packing, making phone calls, praying, and freaking out a little (I was 22). The experience on the road with TRUTH truly defined some of my goals and desires. I realized I didn’t want to simply play trumpet for a living but rather, I wanted to write and arrange the music for groups and churches to play. A few years later, after graduating from The University of Mobile with a music composition degree, I packed up and moved to Nashville to chase my dreams of writing and arranging music.

Fast forward about <cough> 19 years later and I find myself waking up each day still in my dreams. I have had the opportunity to write and record over 130 original songs, compose the score to over 35 movies/videos and AnderKamp Music has now provided music to over 2,000 churches, schools and individuals since it began back in 1998. To clarify though…I’m not that impressed with myself. Not at all. I am completely overwhelmed by the fact that God has chosen to allow me to be able to catch the dreams I’ve chased. Soli Deo Gloria (no Jeff in that Latin phrase, by the way).

Just last month, I had an awesome opportunity that goes full circle back to 1992. TRUTH is right now in the middle of a 40th Anniversary Tour. They have created a new CD for the tour and I was asked to write all the horn arrangements for the CD. We recorded the horns here in Nashville with Steve Patrick (trumpet), Barry Green (trombone) and Mark Douthit(saxophones). The top call session players in Nashville, they are truly world class musicians. The fun part is that I met Steve Patrick while playing in TRUTH. He played lead and I played 2nd, to clarify that.

The first concert of the tour, which was also a live DVD taping, was at Sherwood Baptist in Albany, GA. (In case you aren’t aware, the Sherwood folks are the creators of the movies:Fireproof, Facing the Giants, Flywheel and the new movie that comes out in September, Courageous.) The concert was amazing! It was great to be there to hear TRUTH again and to hear my horn arrangements played live by a great horn section in a great church!

Afterwards, two dear friends and I went out to dinner with Alex and Stephen Kendrick and their families and laughed a whole lot (solid Christian men those two guys are).

So, needless to say, this TRUTH experience has become surreal in many ways. But oh what fun!

If you would like TRUTH to come to your church, you can contact them through their website at www.truth40.org. Their schedule is there so you can see if they’re coming nearby as well. If you have the opportunity to hear them, don’t miss it! And yes..I know the words are important, BUT…take a few moments and listen to the horns and then see if there are any dream you’d like to catch. From a current dreamcatcher, I believe it is possible.