Jazz Ensemble for Beginners

Work on your dynamics as a section with "Buddy Boy." This chart is a medium Swing tune with a minor Blues feeling, focusing on swinging ensemble figures and riff style melodies.

Inspired by the "West Coast Cool" school of Jazz musicians and writers, this chart will encourage your students to play with a light Swing style and focus on feel and phrasing.

Inspired by the "West Coast Cool" school of Jazz musicians and writers, this chart will encourage your students to play with a light Swing style and focus on feel and phrasing.

Inspired by the "West Coast Cool" school of Jazz musicians and writers, this chart will encourage your students to play with a light Swing style and focus on feel and phrasing.

Inspired by the "West Coast Cool" school of Jazz musicians and writers, this chart will encourage your students to play with a light Swing style and focus on feel and phrasing.

Inspired by the "West Coast Cool" school of Jazz musicians and writers, this chart will encourage your students to play with a light Swing style and focus on feel and phrasing.

This swing original features great scoring and a solid melody. The minor harmonies provide an easy entry into the world of improvisation for medium easy groups. Written with reduced instrumentation (1...

Commissioned by the South Dakota Music Education Association for the First Annual SD Middle School All-State Jazz Band, this straight ahead minor blues provides medium easy groups with a multitude of...

This swing chart is the perfect vehicle to give your group the change to move past the blues. The strong melody couples perfectly with the solid ensemble writing to create an abundance of teaching opp...

The plunger has been an important effect in jazz since Duke Ellington's band made it a staple in their repertoire. This swing chart gives developing groups a great chance to learn about this unique te...

This straight-ahead swinger was written for medium easy groups, but will work perfectly with groups at many levels. The solid ensemble writing and the blues-based changes will appeal to more experienc...

As the title suggests, successfully subdividing the triplet on all swing 8th-note figures is the key to an exciting performance of this Shutack original. The strong melody, an open written-or-ad-lib s...

This is the Habanera from Bizet's Carmen, transcribed from the Nat King Cole / Quincy Jones recording. The chart is an up-tempo, rhythmic swinger which features your vocalist and band alike. The origi...

Sarabande inspired by Handel is a contemporary homage to one of George Frideric Handel's most famous works. Jirka Kadlec draws inspiration from the famous Sarabande, preserving its dignified and solem...

Sarabande inspired by Handel is a contemporary homage to one of George Frideric Handel's most famous works. Jirka Kadlec draws inspiration from the famous Sarabande, preserving its dignified and solem...

Eine energiegeladene Shuffle-Melodie, deren steter Groove sehr reizvoll ist. Einfache Wechsel und ausgeschriebene Soli werden junge Solisten ermuntern, lassen aber auch Ihre ambitionierteren Spieler t...

Hip und cool muss nicht viel Probenzeit und harte Arbeit bedeuten - zumindest nicht mit dieser Nummer. Die Tonumfänge sind beschränkt und die Rhythmen einfach, aber durch den großen, vollen Klang würd...

Written to coincide with Shelly Berg's successful Chop-Monster jazz language tutor, the sax duet writing in this blues original pays tribute to legendary big band writer Billy May. Saxes should strive...

From Disney's The Jungle Book and more recently recorded by artists such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Los Lobos and Smash Mouth, this lively song remains popular with all age groups. Here is an easy chart...

Instantly recognizable by all, here is one of the all-time great movie themes in a masterful arrangement for young players. Paul does a great job of capturing the authentic sound of Mancini's classic...

Here's the stunning hit single from the movie A Star Is Born recorded by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. This arrangement for young players features a rock ballad style and solid scoring for the entire...

Recorded by Smash Mouth and featured in the movie Shrek, this familiar pop hit has become an enduring part of our pop culture. This arrangement features the melody passed from section to section and t...

This hard grooving arrangement of the hit song from the smash Netflix movie is perfectly scored for beginning jazz ensembles and will be the hit at your next concert program.