Advanced Jazz Ensemble

Original arrangement from the CD 'Swing it! - Vol. 2'

Written by Bill Finegan for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, this number is a great example of his arranging skill. He took a simplistic tune (Yo Ho Heave Ho) and turned it into a memorable piece, famous f...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994. Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchest...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994.Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestr...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994.Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestr...

Solo trombone part can be performed by one of the trombonists in the band or by a guest soloist.

Prism is a modal composition which is based largely on several reharmonizatios of a simple 8-bar melody. It is a jazz waltz and features the lead alto sax. Correlated with Vol. 1 of the Jazz Workshop...

Two tenors are featured soloists w/trading choruses. Some sax dbls. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Soaring on Sea Breeze Jazz.

AS RECORDED BY HELEN FORREST WITH HARRY JAMES TRANSCRIBED AND ADAPTED BY MIKE HENEBRY Recorded in 1942, this classic Harry James ballad featured singer Helen Forrest. The arrangement is very 'modern'...

Evensong is beautiful and pensive ballad in 3/4 featuring baritone saxophone and flugelhorn. After a statement of the lyrical melody from bari and flugel, ample solo space is given to baritone saxopho...

Written for trombonist Andy Martin and the San Jose State University Jazz Orchestra, Emergence is a beautiful, lyrical ballad that features your trombone soloist. The melody ispresented primarily in t...

After the Rain is a beautiful ballad with an outstretched melody that blurs bar lines and floats, leaving the listener suspended in a dreamy soundscape. An advanced tenor sax soloist will really dig i...

This blues is a great introduction to second line for a high school big band. It alternates between a New Orleans groove and swing. The melody is a simple riff blues, but the regular blues chords have...

Medium Swing Blues. The tune begins with an open C Blues section for piano or guitar a la the Basie Band. The melody has been harmonized with a number of substitutions rather than the standard blues h...

Bright boogaloo straight 1/8th. (Lusaka is the capital city of Zambia) This is feature for Alto and Baritone sax. The solo sections are centered around G7sus (concert) and Bb7. It can get as funky as...

This medium straight-ahead chart is based on the chord progression of Autumn Leaves. The harmonies and voicing's have a Gil Evans-ish flavor with solo space for tenor & trombone, although additional s...

Room 509 is a modern straight-ahead chart that presents a collision of styles broken straight ahead feel and funky hip-hop. The head is challenging but accessible by strong players including rhythm se...

This is a funk tune based on an 8 bar chordal devise with a 'nod' to Randy Brecker. The opening starts with just the sax section. As the chart builds the rhythm section is added, followed by the brass...

Opens with a Gospel flavored, harmonized sax soli. Then moves into a toe-tapping New Orleans style second line ensemble. Open section for all to solo. Big ensemble. 1st tpt. top note F top of staff. S...

The Rumba is one of the most iconic and infectious forms of Afro-Cuban music, and this incendiary chart packs an intense punch on both ends of an elegant and era-nostalgic woodwind feature. As always,...