Advanced Jazz Ensemble

This fast 3/4 swing features a trumpet/tenor chase. Great ensemble writing contributes to this exciting thriller that is very intense from beginning to end. An ideal addition to any concert, Travelin'...

Hank Levy wrote this wonderful 5/4 chart in the early '70's (1973), and it was recorded on the 'Birthday in Britain' CD. Solos for bass and alto saxophone. 5-5-5-3 (condensed score)

The brilliant Rich DeRosa wrote this extraordinary original piece for the North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band. It is recorded on the CD ' Lab 2018.' There are solos for soprano sax and piano. Sierra Musi...

This one is destined to be a classic in a short time. A marvelous melody, a great mood, a wonderfully introspective 12/8 feel, with lots of room for creative playing. Geoff Keezer at his best! For a m...

This composer won the Gil Evans Fellowship with this composition. It is printed exactly as recorded by the North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band. An absolutely magnificent chart. Features trumpet, tenor an...

This is the second movement of the suite Paul wrote as a result of his winning the Gil Evans Fellowship sponsored by IAJE. It is a wonderfully moody, slow, bluesy composition which features alto saxop...

This is a wonderful chart by the recent winner of the Gil Evans Fellowship sponsored by the IAJE. Paul Ferguson is an exciting, young jazz composer with a very bright future. This chart, the 3rd movem...

If you're looking for something very different for a jazz history concert, this is it! Graettinger was a Third Stream composer in jazz long before the term was invented. This was recorded on the Kento...

In Bob's usual style, this jazz waltz melody is shared by everyone.

Great opener or closer. Modal in nature, tests most of the elements, from Sax & polyphonic limes to hard-hitting ens passages.

Lyrical jazz waltz weaves through several key centers. Solo section background cross-cued for choice soloists. Scored for A,T,B, 2 Trpts, 1 Bone & Rhy.

Here is a classy transcription of Frank Sinatra's version of Night and Day, taken down by Jon Harpin from the original Nelson Riddle chart. The Riddle touch is much in evidence, with much of the figur...

Ein Titel von Guns 'N Roses für Big Band? Eine Herausforderung, aber klingt fantastisch: Sweet Child O' Mine!

This Could Be The Start Of Something Big

This version of You Make Me Feel So Young is the one performed by Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie Orchestra on the 'Sinatra at the Sands' album, later re-issued on the Reprise collection, and it is...

Wow. This is a tough, storming swing chart from the talented Linda Eder, and is not just for Christmas. The arrangement is a two-tune medley of Here Comes Santa Claus and Santa Claus is Coming to Town...

Phil Collins Big Band Instrumental Chart. A great straight ahead swing arrangement of this Genesis title by John Clayton Jr. with an open section for solos. From the album 'A Hot Night in Paris'.

Too Darn Hot was written by Cole Porter for the 1948 musical 'Kiss Me Kate' and was featured by Ella Fitzgerald on her Cole Porter Songbook album, with the original arrangement by Buddy Bregman. We ha...

Puttin' On the Ritz has been transcribed from the original Paul Weston chart, written for Ella Fitzgerald's Irving Berlin Songbook album. The structure of this chart is: intro, full vocal chorus, inst...

Adapted from the original Billy May arrangement of Sinatra's Reprise recording, Luck Be A Lady kicks off with the slow, almost Colla Voce intro, which picks up into a thumping swing chart. Jon Harpin...

Here is Frank Sinatra's version of the Irving Berlin classic, Let's Face the Music and Dance. The original chart was arranged by Johnny Mandel, and Jon Harpin has done his usual excellent job in repro...