First Year Charts Series

Check out this ever-popular ballad from the group Journey. The melody is truly captivating, with an easy waltz that goes into a swing-waltz feel. Features include a written melody solo for 1st trumpet...

(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...

(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...

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...

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 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...

Count Basie is also known as a composer. This slow swing composed by the legendary Count and arranged by Roy Phillippe will make your young band sound like old pros. Written solos bounce around the ba...

Composer/arranger Jeff Darrohn has created this very interesting blues chart. A 16-bar blues, it has call-and-responses, a few stop-time sections, a building interlude and brief written-out solo break...

Composer/arranger Jeff Darrohn has created this very interesting blues chart. A 16-bar blues, it has call-and-responses, a few stop-time sections, a building interlude and brief written-out solo break...

Composer/arranger Jeff Darrohn has created this very interesting blues chart. A 16-bar blues, it has call-and-responses, a few stop-time sections, a building interlude and brief written-out solo break...

A hip but accessible bebop tune with written-out solos for tenor 1 and trumpet 1, and clear rhythm section parts. The students and audience will both really enjoy this arrangement!

Naptown Blues arranged by Terry White is an accessible straight-ahead swinger played around 150 BPM, with a nice sax soli, written-out solos for alto 1, tenor 1, trumpet 1, and trombone 1. Trumpet 1 r...

Naptown Blues arranged by Terry White is an accessible straight-ahead swinger played around 150 BPM, with a nice sax soli, written-out solos for alto 1, tenor 1, trumpet 1, and trombone 1. Trumpet 1 r...

Naptown Blues arranged by Terry White is an accessible straight-ahead swinger played around 150 BPM, with a nice sax soli, written-out solos for alto 1, tenor 1, trumpet 1, and trombone 1. Trumpet 1 r...

Naptown Blues arranged by Terry White is an accessible straight-ahead swinger played around 150 BPM, with a nice sax soli, written-out solos for alto 1, tenor 1, trumpet 1, and trombone 1. Trumpet 1 r...

A swingin' blues but with a fun twist, 13-bar blues! Play it around 172 BPM with suggested solos written for tenor 1, trumpet 1, trombone 1, and some brief drumset fills. Trumpet 1 range is to written...

Directors everywhere have come to expect wonderfully tuneful and fun jazz music from Carl Strommen. Carl is the writer everyone turns to year after year when they need quality teaching material. In ou...

Directors everywhere have come to expect wonderfully tuneful and fun jazz music from Carl Strommen. Carl is the writer everyone turns to year after year when they need quality teaching material. In ou...

Directors everywhere have come to expect wonderfully tuneful and fun jazz music from Carl Strommen. Carl is the writer everyone turns to year after year when they need quality teaching material. In ou...

The Basie blues style is expertly captured in this swing chart from Mike Story. It's easy enough for beginning jazz ensembles and good enough for more experienced bands to add to their libraries. You...

The Basie blues style is expertly captured in this swing chart from Mike Story. It's easy enough for beginning jazz ensembles and good enough for more experienced bands to add to their libraries. You...

The Basie blues style is expertly captured in this swing chart from Mike Story. It's easy enough for beginning jazz ensembles and good enough for more experienced bands to add to their libraries. You...

Yes, your young band can be funky-but only arranger Mike Story can take a pop tune like Play That Funky Music and make it come alive for the young jazz ensemble. Simple rhythms, effective and colorful...

Yes, your young band can be funky-but only arranger Mike Story can take a pop tune like Play That Funky Music and make it come alive for the young jazz ensemble. Simple rhythms, effective and colorful...