Jazz Ensemble for Beginners

'No Moon At All' is scored as a bluesy mid-tempo female vocal chart. The structure and feel of the chart is based around the 1947 Doris Day version that she recorded with an eight piece band under the...

Mike Story blends Latin rock and a great pop tune into a great arrangement for your beginning band. You'll have great fun teaching these simple Latin rock rhythms, and with plenty of unison lines, it...

Retro music from old school video games never goes out of style. This popular and quirky theme from Undertale will quickly become one of your students' favorites. This easy version features modest ran...

Here's a fantastic swing chart that can feature any soloist. Utilizing the call and response technique, the soloist makes a statement and the ensemble answers. Later they switch roles, making this gre...

A fun and accessible chart perfect for beginning jazz ensembles features a hip, bluesy melody set over a groove that shifts between a 2nd line, New Orleans style groove and swing. Perfectly scored for...

The perfect chart for your young jazz ensemble's first holiday program. This swinging arrangement of the holiday staple, set in 4/4, is perfectly scored with easy rhythms and comfortable ranges while...

This traditional melody works perfectly. Jericho is very accessible for young players and master arranger Carl Strommen works his magic with his Latin-style chart. Plenty of unison and no individual s...

As a follow-up to his popular arrangement of Coventry Carol, arranger Tony Susi has taken O Come, O Come, Emmanuel and crafted it into a spirited Latin-rock arrangement called Rejoice! Great minor har...

Mike Story blends Latin rock and a great pop tune into a great arrangement for your beginning band. You'll have great fun teaching these simple Latin rock rhythms, and with plenty of unison lines, it...

Adapted from Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbook recording, this chart is laid back, relaxed and easy to play. It would make a good 'change-of-pace chart' for a concert setting or live gig. The arr...

8 brass, 5 saxes and 4 rhythm, plus 3 optional flutes, 2 Bb clarinets and horn in F. Swing band girl vocal. The all time favourite ballad, featured in the 1942 film Casablanca. A full band intro leads...

Here's a remedy for those of you who need a little relief from the current saxophone mania. Feature your trumpets with this funky original. Requies no solos, however a little cockiness wouldn't hurt.

Mike starts things off in this familiar classic with a nice and easy ballad including plenty of unisons and then he provides a smooth transition as the chart moves into an easy swing feel. No improvis...

Written at the medium-easy level, this latest installment in the well-know "Chili Pepper" series promises to be the most popular ever. A driving Latin groove, sax soli, plenty of full ensemble writing...

Following many requests for straigh-ahead, no-nonsense latin charts, we are pleased to bring you Tea For Two as a classic Cha Cha. This version is from the Joe Loss Orchestra, arguably the kings of Br...

Here is our transcription of this great standard as performed by Frank Sinatra on his 1962 Reprise album 'Sinatra and Swingin' Brass'. Neal Hefti wrote the original arrangement and conducted the studi...

Here is our take on Doris Day's charming vocal chart for the Les Brown Orchestra, not to be confused with her 1955 show version with Percy Faith. The chart opens with an instrumental half-chorus, modu...

Here is a very lush and sweet arrangement of Fascination Waltz, as recorded by the Joe Loss Orchestra. The saxes are Miller voiced throughout, scored for CAATT (with the first Tenor also doubling Clar...