And the accompanying music - mostly koto ensemble arrangements of Respighi's score "The Birds" - deftly evokes a Grecian lyre.

Though precisely co-ordinated, the ensemble arrangements had more than enough color and spirit to avoid seeming too schematic, and on one ballad, the simultaneous development of contrasting obbligatos by all four musicians evoked an efflorescent impressionism.

Kats-Chernin has written a number of ragtime pieces for piano; one of these, "Russian Rag", was used in two different instrumental ensemble arrangements, as the theme of Late Night Live until 2010.

Although the group played ensemble arrangements rather than unison themes, the emphasis was on solos.

Jack Feierman again wrote the ensemble arrangements.

Their emphasis on the sense of dynamics and ensemble arrangement has been seen as producing an individualistic style that transcends any single music genre.

Jazz musicians aren't searching for timeless perfection (although the best small groups, like the World Saxophone Quartet, deliver their ensemble arrangements with gorgeous unanimity) - they're acting and reacting in the moment of performance.

They wanted to create ensemble arrangements that would reflect the convoluted harmonies and whiplash rhythms that be-bop had wrought.

He spent the rest of the 1970s living in Austria, where he published big band and small ensemble arrangements.

Mr. Torme's ensemble arrangements seldom remained in one groove for very long, and most included interpolated fragments of other songs.