Advanced Jazz Ensemble

Here is Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo in all its glory. This is the extended version from the film Sun Valley Serenade scored for Boy & Girl vocal with 4-piece backing group and it is four and...

Drum Boogie was a big hit for the Gene Krupa band, featuring Irene Daye on vocals (rather than his regular Anita O'Day). We have made a couple of minor changes to the original - the reeds are now AATT...

An original tune written on the changes to Body and Soul. Features alto and trumpet on the theme and the solos. This is an interesting arrangement. It has a balance of small band and a big band writin...

This chart pays tribute to the style of Neal Hefti's 'Lil' Darlin' and is dedicated to his lovely wife. While the score shows the featured instrument as Trumpet or Flugelhorn 2, parts include an Alter...

Selected as a finalist for the 2007 BMI/Charlie Parker Jazz Competition Award, this gorgeous jazz waltz was originally written as a surprise for his wife on their wedding day. Lush sonorities are achi...

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...

Slow dirty blues with clarinet and trumpet solos, plunger muted brass, clarinet lead in sax section (on tenor part) and alternating double time feel to keep the rhythm section on their toes. As record...

Orchestral in nature, 'Ever Braver, Ever Stronger' was written in tribute to the American spirit in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Features written out trumpet, flute, and clarinet solos...

Beautiful, contemporary 12/8 feel, featuring solo bone and tenor sax. 4 flugels with saxes on unison flutes at beginning. Solos begin with a semi-free feel that can be opened up. Unison trumpet soli o...

Lots of Coltrane influence here with this chart. The melody is beautifully scored, making use of muted brass and saxes floating calmly over a quietly driving rhythm section. Lots of solo space, a fun...

Big Band Girl Vocal. Adapted by Jerry Sheppard for intermediate level ensemble from Natalie Cole's 'Unforgettable' album and in the same key. A really lively up tempo chart with a 'get up and go' feel...

This is Tom's favorite Gloria Morgan ballad. It also has a solo spot for trumpet, and has a decidedly Ellington flavor to it. Vocal range is from A below middle C to C above middle C. Medium difficult...

A hard drivin' gospel shuffle that features alto saxophone. Need a soloist that can really get down and 'greasy' ala Sanborn. Ensemble builds a fire under the soloist. Great for showing off a great al...

Written as a tribute to the great lead alto player Johnny Hodges, this chart uses the conventional harmonic and rhythmic language of the era. Basically a blues with a bridge 'Hodge' develops in a conv...

Alto feature, starts medium slow, then to medium fast 5/4 stretto ensemble, jazz 4/4 coda slow melody super imposed on 5/4 motif.

Alto saxophone feature. A written solo & soli based on remembrances of Chu Berry by the composer. Good full harmonization ala Dirk. Inst.5 sax's,5 flugelhorns, 3 tenor trombones, bass trombone & 4rhyt...

A soulful, gospel-tinged feature for alto saxophone, this chart was written as a tribute to Tom Capps, a former student who succumbed to cancer. No doubles or difficult/technical problems, just a poig...

Feature our alto saxophone soloist on this beautiful ballad! A lyrical melody coupled with some interesting harmonic twists will provide a great vehicle for a more advanced alto player to shine! The a...

Lush & lovely, ballad feature for your most forgotten soloist...bari. Some sax dbls.

Jazz ballad. Very pretty flugel feature. A great feature for that trumpet player with that great sound. Trpt High 'C'.

A feature ballad for trombone or Flugelhorn with a double time 'bop' ensemble section. No doubles.

Clarinet feature with lush flute backgrounds. Nice full ensemble writing. Some sax doubles.

Commissioned by the Nova Jazz Orchestra in St. Paul, MN, 'A Time of Reckoning' is a piano feature, with additional solo space for guitar or vibes. This chart continues the long tradition of pieces bas...

Hints of Romanticism are evoked by this contemplative, stirring piano feature. Vetted within the BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop, this piece calls for woodwind doublings (3 flutes & 2 clarinets), fluegel...