Advanced Jazz Ensemble

WOW! - What a nice ballad! Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom Kubis. This is the alto feature you have been looking for! This is a jazz ballad with lots of nice pad backgrounds that are easy on the e...

Chart was written to feature Gary Foster. Alto Sax feature, that is a moving musical. Opening ballad moves to a/dB-x section that features some unusual sax section writing.

This is a solo vehicle for an alto saxophonist that is not part of the sax section in somewhat of a concerto format, including cadenzas. It's a traditional ballad, one section is just the piano and so...

Alto sax featured. 'Plea' will stretch everyone. It is not extremely difficult. It is four sets of different harmonic, melodic and rhythmic materials with connecting bridges between them and a summary...

A soft, quiet solo feature completely written out for the baritone saxophone. Woodwinds are 4 clarinets and a bass clarinet. From the 'Eternal Licks & Grooves' CD.

Here is Part 1 of Artie Shaw's stunning Concerto for Clarinet, written by the great man himself. Following a big tutti opening comes a stylish Clarinet cadenza intro, with band backing and solo Piano...

Here is Part 2 of Artie Shaw's stunning Concerto for Clarinet. The chart opens with four stylish Clarinet cadenzas, after which the drummer picks up the tempo with a floor-tom solo, joined by solo Cla...

Under The Wire is a tour de force written for the master clarinetist Eddie Daniels, and if you've ever heard Eddie play, then you know what you are in for here! The solo clarinet part requires great d...

It's a happy day any day when you have the new Keep Swingin CD just out on the Sea Breeze Jazz label. Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom Kubis. This is a piano feature in a Jazz waltz style (featurin...

A Samba written for Bill Waltrous book. Of course a Trombone feature throughout the chart. Optional Trumpet solo to give the Trombone a rest. Medium fast tempo.

Up-tempo trombone feature in a minor key. This is a difficult chart but if you have a bone section that's good this will be a good one. Starts with a unison head followed immediatly by a bone soli-las...

A beautiful ballad from the Steve Wiest Big Band library. With a chord progression that is a tip-of-the-hat to Coltrane, Brookmeyer, and Thad Jones, solo trombone (or treble instrument) is featured th...

Written originally for Bill Watrous, this shows off the trombone section with an additional featured soloist. The form is a standard Bb blues with a cycle of fifths bridge (ala rhyhtm changes). Trumpe...

Featuring the bone section, this minor up swing tune has a lot of personality. Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom. Saxes are featured in the 'Super Sax' style (but you won't find this on any Super Sa...

Trombone section feature in a Caribbean feel. Solos for all 3 tenor bones. Opt'l steel drum patch for piano. Great, rhythmic unison soli for whole band. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky...

Fast swing, sax section feature. Begins with an open drum solo, in tempo. Lots of fast unison and soli lines for the sax section. Solo changes in both the tenor 1 and bari. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big...

Great sambas feature for Drums, ensemble written around solo fills.Written for 5 saxes.

Written for Steve Houghton, this composition features the drummer in both delicate, color painting solo situations as well as more powerful ones. There is extensive use of woodwind doublings and brass...

I liked this jazz waltz so much I bought the company! - no wait, thats something else. Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom. I did feature myself on this one thank you. This features the soprano sax al...

Even 8th feel (q note = 92). Originally written for Gary Burton, now features soprano sax. A difficult sax soli follows the solo, then an ever-building ensemble section followed by a return to the mel...

Funk high trumpet feature-Maynardian in concept. This is a great vehicle for the trumpet player with a high 'G'.

This chart was written for a premier at the 2002 Verona Jazz Festival and performed by an All Star Big Band. The chart features a solo transcription of Conte Candoli's great solo on There Is Not Great...

In memory of Maynard Ferguson. There will be a wealth of trumpet features dedicated to MF's memory published this year, so here is mine. It is a piece in two sections based on two different moods asso...

Exciting chart is a bravura Trpt feature based on the chord changes Speak Low. Rhythmic feels, include' son Montuna [mambo], samba & Afro-Cuban 6/8, provides contrast. No w/w dbls. Aux. Perc. Desirabl...

Here's a contemporary screamer written for trumpeter Wayne Bergeron. Features the trumpet section with optional 'up the octave' solo parts. Energetic contemporary rhythms and harmonies give your rhyth...