Advanced Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble

An extended feature for alto saxophone based on pretty ballad style melody, followed by a swing section where the alto leads the section through a difficult soli, and concluding with a fast jazz samba...

This is a pretty rock ballad that features the lead trumpet. The real high trumpet stuff at the end may be played down an octave. Recorded by the Kubis Big Band on Jazz Musicians Christmas on Sea Bree...

This chart is uptempo Bb blues with bridge (though needn't be as uptempo as Rob Parton took it!) Written for the Illinois All-State Jazz Band and played by all its District Jazz Bands, too. As recorde...

One of Frank Foster's more ambitious charts in the context of the so-called 'Basie Tradition,' Major Butts is really just another medium up-tempo 12 bar blues, but with the added twist of an 'I Got Rh...

An exciting bop over a minor blues form featuring solis for the saxophone, trombone and trumpet sections. The sections also trade back and forth. There is solo space for players in each section throug...

As recorded on John Daversa's 'Live at Catalina's', this chart is a swingy, bluesy tune built on a bass line groove in 7/4. There are solos in the guitar and alto saxophone before a trumpet solo begin...

Recorded on the John Fedchock New York Big Band's CD No Nonsense, Blue After Two is a slow blues, with subtle sophisticated harmonies placed over an after-hours roadhouse 12/8 groove. After the subtle...

Here's a burning minor blues that will certainly showcase and challenge any advanced ensemble. This chart provides more than ample solo space, and is a wonderful vehicle to feature your drummer playin...

Here's an up tempo minor blues with a bridge that works great as an opener or closer. Solo opportunities for any instrument are plentiful, and your saxophone section will enjoy working on this smokin'...

A slow Basie-style blues that is dedicated and inspired by the great Sammy Nestico, this chart starts out slow but before you know it you are building your way towards a stomping Basie shout chorus. Y...

This chart is anything but predictable and takes your band and your audience on an exciting ride, from the opening hip hop feel to the pulsating swing. Bluesy in character, this chart is filled with t...

A medium to up tempo shuffle adapted from the original recording, Friday Night at the Cadillac Club is a tenor feature with open solo opportunities for guitar and piano/organ. Guitar can be optional....

1. Italian cooker, 2. beautiful Trombone solo, 3. rousing, swinging driving masterpiece. Solos; Piano, Trbn, & Alto. Dbls. 3 movements; Latin, slow & swing.

This straight eigth note piece is reminiscent of music that has been released on the ECM label. It begins with a rubato section featuring piano and flugel horn and then falls into a loose bossa. The m...

This original tune features a nice up-tempo contemporary groove, a great melody, and plenty of space for a good tenor sax soloist. Trumpet range to high C, no wind doubles, and optional guitar partA,T...

12th Street Rag as you never imagined! This chart was written for the Ted Heath band, and goes way way beyond the original Bowman concept. The chart opens by imitating traffic along 12th Street, in a...

Big, brassy & blustering swing which seems never to stop building. Some dbl.. Goes from swing to 4 bas Dixie feel to swing. Piano & Bari solos. No score.

Up tempo swing. Yup! It's the old standard, its got it all - from an a cappella ens to a Dixieland band & a killer shout section. Solo changes in each sec.

Starts w/ a wacky kinda Dixieland version of this old tune featuring the Alto sax [opt soprano sax], and a plungered trombone w/trpts in harmonies acting as the banjo. The drums pick up the tempo into...

Encompassing several styles of jazz; i.e.: ragtime, Dixieland, bebop, swing, modal afro/Cuban. A challenging chart but well worth the effort. */5/5/5 - Clarinets (2) Bs. Clarinet and tuba are optional...

Part 2 of Red Beans & Ricely Yours (Commissioned in honor of Louis Armstrong by ASCAP and IAJE and premiered by the Jazz Surge at the 2001 IAJE Conference in New York.) This piece tries to unabashedly...

Part 1 of Red Beans & Ricely Yours (Commissioned in honor of Louis Armstrong by ASCAP and IAJE and premiered by the Jazz Surge at the 2001 IAJE Conference in New York.) If you can imagine what blues-t...