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Ursprünglich als vierhändiges Klavierwerk komponiert, dann symphonisert und fast 150 Jahre später für Big Band arrangiert. Mit starken Harmonien, einem fetzigen Groove und natürlich der bekannten Melo...

This laid back Bossa/Rock style melody will have your young musicians cruising while getting their Smooth Jazz chops up!

This laid back Bossa/Rock style melody will have your young musicians cruising while getting their Smooth Jazz chops up!

This laid back Bossa/Rock style melody will have your young musicians cruising while getting their Smooth Jazz chops up!

This laid back Bossa/Rock style melody will have your young musicians cruising while getting their Smooth Jazz chops up!

This laid back Bossa/Rock style melody will have your young musicians cruising while getting their Smooth Jazz chops up!

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...

Inspired by the music of the great Count Basie Orchestra, this is a perfect vehicle for teaching the swing idiom. It features a riff-based tune, lots of full ensemble work, and blues changes. Sample w...

Here is a great easy level chart for teaching the swing idiom to young players. With an abundance of basic swing figures and articulations, a strong melody, and solid ensemble writing, this chart has...

Emulating the music of Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider and Gil Evans, this creative original opens with a haunting melody played by solo flugelhorn before the burning swing groove kicks in. Solo choru...

Commissioned by the Jazz Division of the Illinois Music Educators Association for the 2012 Illinois All State Jazz Ensemble, this is Chris Madsen's first chart for Doug Beach Music. A great change of...

This beautiful folkish chart in an even-eighth note ECM style features diatonic melodies over lush chord voicings. The tenor and piano solo can be played as written or ad lib. A guitar chord chart by...

Following up on the popularity of the composer's baseball-inspired big band chart, Double Play, this shuffle opens with an ad lib solo for piano and grooves from start to finish. A stop-time section g...

The swingin' unison vocal featuring all wind players is the definite highlight in this easy-level vintage arrangement of 1955! Both before and after that rousing chorus, sax and brass solis and strong...

Tickle Toe is a real Tenor sax feature. Hardly surprising, as it was written by Lester Young! This chart, with the usual basie combination of flowing sax lines and punchy brass, is written in a minor...

Made famous by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, our version of Sunny Side of theStreet is taken from the version done by the late great Syd Lawrence. The form and structure is based on the original Dorsey...

Reminiscent of a patriotic Kenton arrangement, this chart is great to use for your spring concert. Also ideal to change the pace of your standard jazz repertoire. Great sounds!

Reminiscent of a patriotic Kenton arrangement, this chart is great to use for your spring concert. Also ideal to change the pace of your standard jazz repertoire. Great sounds!

This piece was inspired by a photograph of jazz clubs on New York's 52nd Street in the late 1940s. It has the sound and feel of some of the great standards of that era, and incorporates elements of th...