Intermediate Jazz Ensemble

The current swing band, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, is producing some of the most exciting music today. This up-tempo swinger in a minor key has the aura of Sing, Sing, Sing complete with featured tom-tom s...

One of the all-time Ellington classics is this elegant medium swing tune. Mark's smooth arrangement features plenty of rich ensemble scoring plus solos for trumpet and trombone.

Here's a perfect touch of swing era nostalgia with this signature tune from the Glenn Miller Orchestra. All the elements from the original are here including the famous sax melody, trumpet and alto so...

Written in a medium swing style, this appealing chart opens in a half-time feel featuring the saxes. Later a heavier swing style sets in with the full ensemble, a sax soli, solo for trumpet, and a dri...

From the rock group Queen, here is their popular swing tune in a fast-paced chart for young jazz ensemble. Sure to be a fun one to rehearse and perform!

One of the trademark tunes from the Duke Ellington library, this familiar jazz classic is solidly scored for young players in this terrific arrangement by Mark Taylor. When it comes to playable charts...

Carefully utilizing every section of the band, here is a skillfully arranged version of this jazz favorite recorded by Illinois Jacquet and also Count Basie. Featuring a medium swing style and phrases...

From the film Swing Time and originally performed by Fred Astaire, The Way You Look Tonight won the Academy Award for best original song in 1936. Since then it has remained a popular jazz standard, an...

This chart has it all. Featuring a great swing feel, solid scoring and dynamic contrasts, this arrangement is perfect for younger bands just learning to swing, or experienced bands showing that they c...

Sammy features the saxophones in this medium swing arrangement of the Cole Porter standard. Wonderful ensemble writing. No solos required.

FRANZ GERSTBREIN is one of the leading composers and arrangers for german brass-bands and also known worldwide. After studying trumpet in Munich, he worked as an artist for the German Army-Orchestra R...

Dave Wolpe's superb chart for vocalist and jazz ensemble is arranged in two keys for flexibility: low key of C and high key is F-just flip the page for the preferred key! In addition, an optional part...

Check out arranger Terry White's straight-ahead bebop-influenced chart on this Gershwin standard. Swing feel throughout, a beefy sax soli, lead lines and solos (written out) for alto 1 and trumpet 2 a...

A soulful tune with a catchy title and melody, Erik Morales captures composer Bobby Timmons's medium swing groove. At 120 BPM, with a slightly mysterious intro, the saxes grab the melody and it builds...

At 148 BPM, this medium swinger is arranged in two keys for flexibility, the high key is A-flat with the range from E-flat first line to third space C, treble clef. The low key is E-flat and the range...

Look out, old Mackie is back! This fabulous vocal chart modulates four times, up a half-step each time and has a written-out tenor solo and a big shout chorus. Arranged in two keys, the high key begin...

A swing chart styled after the Michael Bublé version, arranger Scott Ragsdale nailed it. At 148 BPM, in the key of B-flat modulating to C, the vocal range is from F below middle C to 3rd space C, treb...

Open any concert with this swingin' chart that will make your audience sit up! At a tempo of 208 BPM or faster, written solo space for tenor and trumpet 2, lead trumpet range to written B above the st...

One of the trademark tunes from the Duke Ellington library, this familiar jazz classic is solidly scored for young players in this terrific arrangement by Mark Taylor. When it comes to playable charts...

A great combination of Gershwin and Wolpe! This vocal solo with big band chart is written in two different keys for your flexibility--it works for your female or male vocalist. A great Gershwin song w...

Another outstanding jazz vocal with jazz ensemble! This chart is totally flexible---it's written in two keys! The higher key usually works for your male vocalist and the lower key for your female voca...

Recorded in 1968 on the album Basie Straight Ahead this slow swinger defines the Basie style at this tempo. While not overly demanding technically, this chart will challenge even the best bands to pla...

Written by Count Basie and his vocalist, Jimmy Rushing, this tune was a staple of the early Basie band. The chart that we offer here is a later vocal version written for Peggy Lee by Quincy Jones. It...

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree was another of the Andrews Sisters big hits and sold very well, despite the success that the Glenn Miller band achieved with the same tune. The chart opens with a half t...