Advanced Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble

This up-tempo swinger has become the signature tune for the Mingus Big Band. It opens with a free-wheeling baritone sax solo and features raucous ensemble passages and group improvisations. You won't...

From Gordon Goodwin's Grammy-nominated CD Big Phat Band - Swingin' For The Fences comes this monster-of-a-swinger designed to feature the entire ensemble. In addition to a wonderful riff-based theme a...

Originally recorded by Peggy Lee in 1960, this upbeat swinger exudes a great message and positive energy. Perfect for a singer to add their own personality and connect with the audience. John Clayton'...

From the Quincy Jones -- Sammy Nestico CD titled Basie & Beyond. Composed by Grammy winning composer/producer, Quincy Jones, here is a swinger for either piano, guitar or vibes soloist. This is a medi...

This chart is a transcription of the Billy Byers chart as performed by Frank Sinatra backed by Woody Herman at Madison Square Gardens in 1974. The opening is thunderingly brassy and establishes a grea...

Holiday jazz by Gordon Goodwin. This adaptation of 'Oh Tannenbaum' is quite an adventure offering a chorale, some Basie style and fast and furious Goodwin bebop. Solo space for alto and tenor sax, tru...

Gordon Goodwin gives this easy-to-play holiday chart a jazz waltz treatment. Features include: a soprano sax part (alternate alto 1 part), a 2nd alto part with flute (alternate 2nd alto sax-only) and...

Gordon Goodwin's 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day' is played at a medium swing around 120 BPM. The lead trumpet range is up to written high G, there are terrific shout choruses, a few modulations,...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

A Gordon Goodwin vocal chart! In addition to the vocal part, there are solo lead sheets for alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet and trombone. Gordon has conceived this chart with the vocal intertwined into t...

Solo trombone part can be performed by one of the trombonists in the band or by a guest soloist (any horn). First trumpet: notated c3 (USA: C5)

Written and recorded by Tower Of Power, this supercharged chart is the ultimate in funk writing for big band! Paul has authentically recreated this famous tune using a tenor sax soloist, the trademark...

From master arranger Michael Abene, here is a slow cooking blues chart that features the piano and some wonderfully outrageous ensemble scoring. This is the authentic version originally recorded by th...

AS RECORDED BY CARMEN MCRAE ARRANGED BY JACK PLEIS, TRANSCRIBED AND ADAPTED BY SYD POTTER This great cha cha arrangement was recorded by Carmen McRae on February 21, 1955 with the Jack Pleis Orchestra...

More advanced groups have come to know that Mike Tomaro's name on a piece means that the music is of the highest quality "Uncommon Zentz" is no exception. This hard charging swing chart is a tour de f...

More advanced groups have come to know that Mike Tomaro's name on a piece means that the music is of the highest quality "Uncommon Zentz" is no exception. This hard charging swing chart is a tour de f...

More advanced groups have come to know that Mike Tomaro's name on a piece means that the music is of the highest quality "Uncommon Zentz" is no exception. This hard charging swing chart is a tour de f...

More advanced groups have come to know that Mike Tomaro's name on a piece means that the music is of the highest quality "Uncommon Zentz" is no exception. This hard charging swing chart is a tour de f...

More advanced groups have come to know that Mike Tomaro's name on a piece means that the music is of the highest quality "Uncommon Zentz" is no exception. This hard charging swing chart is a tour de f...

If you want funky, this is it! In a nutshell, this is Tower of Power meets Gordon Goodwin, simple as that. Solo space provided for alto, tenor, bari, trumpet, trombone, and various rhythm players.

This classic Herbie Hancock composition has become one of the most well-known songs in jazz history. Gordon Goodwin wanted to do something a little different in his arrangement without violating the s...

As recorded by the Bob Mintzer Big Band on Incredible Journey, this upbeat tune puts the whole band through its paces over repetitive Latin rhythms. Alto sax, piano and drums are the designated solois...

Commissioned by the Gates Chili High School Jazz Ensemble in Rochester, New York, this original for proficient groups alternates between a Latin and straight 8th-note feel, and draws on the ascending...