Medium up bringing chart based on Cole Porter's 'Just One of Those Things'. Can be opened for solos. An exciting contrapuntal section minus the rhythm section leads to a sax soli. Recorded by the John...
Medium tempo 'Blues For Alice' type progression w/ 16 bar contrasting bridge. Solo: Tenor w/opt'l Trpt, & or Bone solos. Chart concludes w/challenging sax & brass solis & a modulation to A major for t...
Front line of Tenor, Alto & flugel. Any or all may solo plus Piano has opt'l solo. Recorded by the John Mahoney Big Band on 'In From Somewhere.'
Slow blues in 12/8 features an Alto soloist & a plunger-muted Trpt soloist. Dissonant 'Thadish' voicings, triplet cross rhythms, dbl.-x sections & a sax soli w/baritone lead all contribute to an Ellin...
Medium slow 'Basie' groove. Short solos for Tenor, Alto & Trpt. Recorded by the John Mahoney Big Band on 'In From Somewhere.'
An up tempo Bb blues with a bridge commissioned by the Airmen of Note. The chart includes a difficult sax soli, flexible improvised solo sections with backgrounds, and lots of traditional big band sho...
A medium up tempo original in 5 flats based on an old standard with a similiar title. Solos are for piano (or guitar) and trumpet 2 (or trombone2). There are 3 contrapuntal choruses in front where eve...
A medium tempo blues in Eb, featuring trumpet 2 and bari sax on the melody and lots of solo space. There are a couple of choruses of horn counterpoint without the rhythm section, and several roaring s...
Loosely based on 'Struttin' With Some Barbecue' the chart has an ooen solo chorus followed by a background chorus designed for a trumpet solo. A canon fills the next chorus followed by a shout chorus....
The sung intro leads into a stretched out modal, straight 8th note treatment of this familiar carol. There are two solos for your choice of trombone 1 or trumpet 2 and tenor 1 or alto 2. Demanding tru...
A 6/4 Gospel ballad features the brass (flugelhorns suggested) on the nicely harmonized melody, with a fun bass trombone part throughout. Piano solos over the second chorus, and saxes wait until the t...
Quick moving bossa nova features a small group of muted Trpt, Bone, Alto & Piano. Flexible solo section follows for any number of soloists. Next a full chorus sax soli to the climatic out chorus. Reco...
Designed to showcase your flugel or bone. Written for Bobby Shew. Interesting changes & pretty bossa w/dbl. x samba vamp.
Based on 'It Could Happen To You', the chart alternates between bossa nova and swing feels, and the keys of Eb and G. A sax soli chorus proceeds solos by trumpet or trombone, and alto or tenor, each w...
This begins and ends with a 4 trombone chorale, with the rest of the chart being in a modern, somewhat subtle, 2-beat and 4/4 swing feel. Improvised solos for alto and trombone on cycle type changes a...
An up tempo swinger on the chord changes of 'Who Cares?' A somewhat challenging Trombone - Baritone Sax - Bass unison soli on the second chorus leads into a flexible improvised solo section with backg...
A medium swing piece employing some 12-tone melodic and harmonic techniques, but based on the standard tune 'Out of Nowhere'. Soloists (trumpet or trombone and soprano or tenor) should be comfortable...
A medium tempo jazz waltz features the trombones on the melody, followed by a soli for that section. Soprano sax and Trumpet 2 are featured on solos, and there is a sax soli, as well. The shout chorus...
Medium swing. Features Bari Sax and Trombone 2 on solos and four bar exchanges, with a nice mid-register shout chorus. The most difficult part is a contrapuntal section with four saxes pitted against...
This begins with a chorale version of the hymn shared by brass and saxes. The remainder of this expansive chart is cast in a 5/4 bolero, and features Tenor Sax and Trumpet 2 on solos. Counting is tric...
A 3/4 ballad features solo trombone. A fifth trumpet part could replace section 1st trombone. Lots of tension in this one built off of melodic minor lines and harmonies. Solo trombone to high C, lead...
Begins as a ballad, double times to a jazz waltz, and settles into a jazz samba. Features tenor or optional solo flute on very difficult chord changes. Flute doubles in Alto 1 & 2, and Tenor 2. Flugel...
This is a medium tempo AABA bluesy shuffle in F minor that features the top three trombones on solos and the entire section in an 'a capella' soli. The 3rd Trombone solo is cued in one of the tenor pa...
A medium-up tempo in a 12-bar form that's almost a blues. Features trumpet or trombone solo exchanges with sax solis and alto or tenor solo exchanges with brass solis plus a string of exciting contrap...
