Jazz Ensemble for Beginners

This chart reflects on composer Kris Berg's time touring in Cuba. Your ensemble will be "Havana Good Time" playing this grooving tune!

This chart reflects on composer Kris Berg's time touring in Cuba. Your ensemble will be "Havana Good Time" playing this grooving tune!

This chart reflects on composer Kris Berg's time touring in Cuba. Your ensemble will be "Havana Good Time" playing this grooving tune!

Inspired by his vocalist collegue and her brilliant lyrical phrasing when creating a melody, Peter Blair brings us a chart based on the chord changes from "The Nearness of You."

Inspired by his vocalist collegue and her brilliant lyrical phrasing when creating a melody, Peter Blair brings us a chart based on the chord changes from "The Nearness of You."

Inspired by his vocalist collegue and her brilliant lyrical phrasing when creating a melody, Peter Blair brings us a chart based on the chord changes from "The Nearness of You."

Inspired by his vocalist collegue and her brilliant lyrical phrasing when creating a melody, Peter Blair brings us a chart based on the chord changes from "The Nearness of You."

Inspired by his vocalist collegue and her brilliant lyrical phrasing when creating a melody, Peter Blair brings us a chart based on the chord changes from "The Nearness of You."

Take a strong R&B groove, add a fun-to-play melody with a catchy hook, stir in some solid ensemble writing, and you have the recipe for a rock chart that will be a hit with students and audiences alik...

Here's a very easy arrangement of the recent hit recorded by Lady Gaga. Easy rhythms and a solid rock feel help to insure success with this one.

This Elvis Presley classic is arranged here in the style of a rock ballad and features a short written-out trumpet solo in the beginning. The melody is skillfully woven between all sections of the ban...

(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue' arranged by Victor Lopez is a beautiful ballad, and very playable by a young jazz group. The tempo is around 82 BPM with a straight-eighth ballad feel, smooth...

This is a Swing ballad written in 12/8. Inspired by the lush harmonies of music from the 70's, this chart will bring back fond memories of the past for any listener.

This is a Swing ballad written in 12/8. Inspired by the lush harmonies of music from the 70's, this chart will bring back fond memories of the past for any listener.

This is a Swing ballad written in 12/8. Inspired by the lush harmonies of music from the 70's, this chart will bring back fond memories of the past for any listener.

This is a Swing ballad written in 12/8. Inspired by the lush harmonies of music from the 70's, this chart will bring back fond memories of the past for any listener.

This is a Swing ballad written in 12/8. Inspired by the lush harmonies of music from the 70's, this chart will bring back fond memories of the past for any listener.

Classic Gershwin, RHAPSODY IN BLUE is music all students should have the opportunity to hear and enjoy. The history of this composition dates back to 1924. Since then, it's been recorded and performed...

This Gershwin classic has been performed and recorded countless times, and now it's time for your beginning players to play and learn this gorgeous standard! Arranger Mike Lewis has scored Embraceable...

This 1954 release features a beautiful trumpet solo (to be played as written) in an expressive setting. Flowing legato figures dominate throughout, and a brief trombone solo and a 16-bar sax soli prov...

Here is a great medium swing blues tune for beginning jazz ensembles. The main theme features the rhythm section playing stop time before it slips into a steady swing pattern. There is a solid ensembl...

Bubbert takes a road trip and finds himself in the land of the lope-along Western style blues. This fun chart features a catchy riff, a question and answer stop-time section, plus a flexible solo sect...

Recorded on the 1956 album Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, this jazz standard composed by pianist Red Garland adapts beautifully for beginning jazzers. With a moderate tempo, riff-based melody,...