I've added a new page to the website, one I am very glad to add. The new page is a listing of my compositions which have made it to the Texas University Interscholastic League's Prescribed Music List ...

Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 was a red-letter day around here. Why? Because THREE of my original compositions made the 2026-2027 Texas University Interscholastic League Prescribed Music List! What thi...

Bank Shot is a high-energy marching percussion cadence for snareline, tenors, bass drums & cymbals. Accessible for high school drumlines and beyond.

This arrangement brings one of Bruckner’s most deeply felt slow movements to the concert band medium, drawing from the 1872 version of the Second Symphony as edited by the late Dr. William Carragan. W...

“Elegy 137” is a reflective and lyrical work for concert band, written in memory of the 137 lives lost during the Central Texas floods of July 4, 2025. Born in Travis County, the composer offers this ...

If you're looking for videos of my works for Band, Orchestra, or Chamber Ensembles, there's a new easy access page on my website just for you! I've set up a central page which will direct you to a pai...

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I am honored to announce that the San Antonio Community Wind Ensemble (SACWE) will present the world premiere of my newest work, "Elegy 137," on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 2:30 p.m., in the auditori...

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Download Fantasias on a Hillside Theme by Lee Jackson — an original Grade 5 concert band work for advanced high school, college, and community bands. Lyrical, dramatic, ~13 minutes. Instant PDF downlo...

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Bobby Prince's groundbreaking soundtrack is one of 25 recordings inducted into the famed Library of Congress today.

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Way, way back in the ancient days of November, 1982, the person who would soon become my wife sat with me in a music practice cubicle in what used to be called the "New Music Building" on the campus o...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted my novel, "Tapper," online so that everyone could read it for free. Today, I'm releasing a short story from the "Tapper" Universe, called "Sergeant Marcos's Rescue," an...

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So, whaddya say? You in the mood for a sci-fi novel? :) When I first started up this website, I had two reasons for starting it: talking about music, and promoting a novel I was writing. I finished the novel, but I never got any nibbles from literary agents. So, rather than let the book…

I received some good advice from someone about my "Central Texas Elegy" work. Basically, they said I was doing the piece no favors by giving it the title I'd given it. In their opinion, I was limiting...

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My fourth woodwind quintet came to me closely after I finished my third, so some passages in the fourth may sound similar to those in the third - slightly similar, at least. This offering has a much m...

My third woodwind quintet, subtitled "Black Mesa," has been in the works for several years now. It is one of the first pieces I began to work on when I got my copy of Dorico Pro. However, I have sketc...

This was my first try at creating a piece for a woodwind quintet. I started work on it sometime in the 1990s, using Cakewalk Pro Audio to compose the piece. I managed to get the first two movements co...

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A major musical event took place for me over this past weekend (January 17th-18th, 2026). I'd been waiting for word from Cimarron Music Press regarding several works which I'd submitted for their cons...

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