Intermediate Jazz Ensemble

This wonderful ballad features the alto sax. Recorded by Mel Lewis & The Jazz Orchestra on 'Bob Brookmeyer: Composer, Arranger.'

Song for Jaco is a warm and lyrical ballad of Peter's, which is dedicated to the legendary electric bassist, Jaco Pastorius. Solo contributions are heard from the lead trumpet, the baritone saxophone...

Burungkaka is an Indonesian folk song which is known throughout Malaysia. It is about an old parrot which sits near the window, singing. The children make fun of it in a good-natured manner. Originall...

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...

Loose Your Life Life (And It Will Surely Find You) features the tenor saxophone in a gospel-flavored 7/4 funk piece which has roots in my youth, growing up in a family in which my father was a penteco...

La Curandera Negrita is basically a minor blues. Though this piece is written in 6/8, it is perhaps more accurately felt in a lilting triplet divided 4/4-with the dotted quarter receiving the pulse of...

1/2 time extended melody w/comfortable changes for Trpt & open solos. Scored for 2 Trpts, Tenor Bone, Bass Bone. Soprano sax, Tenor sax & 4 Rhythm.

A relaxed 4/4 arrangement, based on the Quincy Jones version from the album 'This Time by Basie' recently re-released on the Reprise label. Mainly featuring the sax section but including muted trumpet...

Another classic melody from The Wizard of Oz that fits great in the jazz swing style! This one moves right along, but is very playable at the medium difficulty level. Dave Wolpe writes everything just...

Over the years George Shutack has penned many beautiful ballads and this one is no exception. Showcasing a trumpet or flugelhorn soloist, lush voicings create a perfect setting for the lyrical melody....

Here's a swinging chart of the Christmas standard as arranged by Frank DeVol for Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 album 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.' This was arranged to feature a solo vocalist along...

My One True Friend is another in a long line of great songs sung by Bette Midler, in the tradition of 'From a Distance' and 'The Wind Beneath My Wings.' This new hit has all of the right ingredients f...

Written in the style of Slide Hampton's Slide's Derangement (recorded by Maynard Ferguson on Message From Newport), this medium-uptempo blues captures the spirit of Slide's chart in a fresh, accessibl...

Grade 3. (Jennings)

Hound Dog is firmly associated with Elvis, and Clapton did a good cover of it too. However, our version is not really rock'n'roll. It opens as a slightly funk latin in C minor, moving to C major for t...

Using a light and breezy Calypso vibe, this arrangement will be as much fun to play as it is to hear. There are several interesting melodic and harmonic twists that will keep everyone on their toes, b...