Advanced Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble

Spinner is a technical tour de force that will demonstrate the skills of your saxophone section. A modern bebop melody is played in fast unisons and Supersax style solis by your saxophones, giving the...

Arrangement by Michael Abene. Mysterious, somewhat melancholy, feature for soprano saxophone. This is a beautiful arrangement by Michael Abene, originally written for the Netherlands Metropole Orchest...

Wer kennt nicht den 'alten Gassenhauer' Klarinetten-Muckl. Herbert Russek arrangierte diesen Welthit vor vielen Jahren neu für 4-5 Saxofone und Toni Müller bearbeitete ihn mit neuen Ideen und frischem...

Specifically designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1 or 2 years playing experience, but with no prior experience playing jazz. Great for individual or classroom use. Teaches the basics of swi...

My Melancholy Baby Composed by Norton/Burnett & arr. By Joe Riposo This is a Med. Difficult chart written for Little Big Band. Alto, Tenor, Bari, 2 Trpts, Trbn, P, B, D. This chart is a Med. Up swinge...

This is a Steven Foster 1880 tune dressed up in a new musical suit. It is fun to play and enjoyable for the audience to listen to. This chart has many different feels from jazz to a slow blues feeling...

Here's the hottest chart of the year for your swinging jazzers to play. It attacks all the way and never lets your audience relax. Based on the familiar changes of Avalon, this chart is flat out 'peda...

Mambo Diablo is an up-tempo mambo written in 2-3 son clave with solo space for tenor saxophone and trumpet. Over an extended form and non-typical changes, your band will get get their hands dirty work...

The bear is back! From the count off, this chart drives hard. It features alto 1 in an energetic romp that leads to a shout chorus with 4-way counterpoint. Like a river with class 3 rapids, this chart...

A moving and respectful tribute to Cannonball Adderly. This alto sax and bass feature reminisces on the ballad and medium swing aspects of Cannonballs playing. The piece begins with a free modal bass...

Rachel Steckler O'Kaine has written out the optional conga and sekere parts to aid your percussionist in creating Afro-Cuban rhythms as easily as possible. Check out the performance notes for specific...

Who would have thought that there was still life in an old chestnut like The Yellow Rose of Texas? Well there is in this captivating funky, hip-hop version by Rick Lawn that turns into a double time s...

This is based on the Disney tune of a similar name but is a driving up-tempo jazz chart. Featuring some collective improvisational moments in the head, it also has some simultaneous soloing by two pla...

Triple Grammy nominee Frank Mantooth has given this old standard a fresh but straight ahead swing treatment. Highlights include a sax section soli (with opt. trumpet 4) that is really hot and well wor...

David Liebman Series. Comp. by David; arr. by Andrew Rathbun. Originally recorded with Elvin Jones and featured on Lieb's Big Band recording As Always, this arrangement features a variety of challengi...

David Liebman Series. Comp. by David, arr by Arnon Palty. A contrafact based on Softly As In A Morning Sunrise features a woodwind super sax rendition of McCoy Tyners solo on Softly from an early Colt...

Modern, pedal oriented, straight ahead Ballad. This chart is a feature for first tenor. It is a ballad closest in style to the Coltrane quartet's late versions of Body and Soul and Naima. Rhythm secti...

The chart can best be called a driving funky rock feel. The tune is meant to be both happy and yet reflective. There is a little bit of a black church feel in the groove to this tune. Portions of the...

The work begins with a soli statement for the trumpets and then the saxes and then the trombones. The theme is not cast in the form of the blues but the solo section evolves into the blues.The backgro...

Commissioned by The Noteables (US Air Force Jazz Band), 'Drop Down' is an uptempo bebop big band tune that, while sounding familiar, is wholly original. This song features solos for trumpet and guitar...

Crackin'is an exciting and challenging medium tempo shuffle (132+=BPM) for big band, based on the jazz blues progression, in B-flat, featuring the jazz organ (a synthesizer that has an organ sound/pat...

Dedicated to the people of Japan. This programmatic work has four sections. 1. To represent the Earthquake of March 11, 2011; an introduction using a kumoi scale first as a solo flute section, then fe...

This is a combination modern straight ahead and funky cross-stick groove piece. Solos for trombone 1 and alto 1. The send off to the alto solo features a full band soli with a texture reminiscent of M...

Ambidextrosity is a medium-up bop tune featuring a Three-in-one-esque frontline of Flugel, Bari Sax, and Bass. There are plenty of intricate ensemble passages and solo space for the three featured ins...

Romp is a medium-tempo bluesy waltz in Bb. Features full chorus of bass solo with backgrounds after the head statement - easy changes, but your bass player must be a strong soloist. Saxophones follow...