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From Essential Jazz Editions, Set #4: Music of the 1930s, Part II.

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...

Dust Storm is an energetic up-tempo swing piece for big band, composed for the 2025 BMI Jazz Composers Workshop under the direction of Alan Ferber and Andy Farber. It has a strong Western-inflected fl...

Dust Storm is an energetic up-tempo swing piece for big band, composed for the 2025 BMI Jazz Composers Workshop under the direction of Alan Ferber and Andy Farber. It has a strong Western-inflected fl...

I wrote this at the behest of my students as I would make fun of them when they were playing stiff by saying, Well, we’re swingin’ now. The kids badgered me into writing a swing tune for them by that...

I wrote this at the behest of my students as I would make fun of them when they were playing stiff by saying, Well, we’re swingin’ now. The kids badgered me into writing a swing tune for them by that...

This arrangement of Ravel's Bolero is somewhat quirky, yet is an interesting swing take on a classical tune. Goodman recorded this chart in 1939 with a band that contained a 6-piece brass section, and...

From the 2006 David Benoit CD “Full Circle,” here is the lead-off tune in a marvelous adaptation for jazz ensemble. Mike Tomaro stays true to the lively Latin style of the original while providing sol...

Fiery! Hot! Burnin'! Smokin'! Searing! Scorching! Get the picture? This is Victor Lopez doing what he does best -- creating powerful and exciting original Latin charts. Macumba has a few challenging e...

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 RECORDED BY CHARLIE PARKER WITH BIG BAND AND STRINGS ARRANGED BY JOE LIPMAN, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Here is Joe Lipman's brilliant big band with strings arrangement that he did for Charlie Park...

This Vocalist With Big Band edition was commissioned by jazz singer Kevin Mahogany, who originally penned the tune. If used, optional doubles in the saxes and trumpets (flutes, clarinets, flugelhorns)...

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...