Advanced Swing Sheet Music

This extended work was composed for dance but works beautifully as a serious concert piece. The dirge-like opening (haunting for its superimposition of dark, ominous brass with simple folk-like motive...

Breakthrough is a medium-advanced level, uptempo modal swing chart featuring solos for piano, tenor sax, trumpet and drums. An exciting opening leads to a theme voiced for the three horns and an expan...

Featured on John Fedchock's acclaimed 'New York Big Band' CD, Nightshades is a medium tempo swing chart featuring piano, tenor sax and trombone solos, with chord changes inspired by minor blues. A sub...

This is a challenging mix of alto sax and trumpet solos, up-swing rhythm changes, hard hitting ensemble exchanges, dense orchestrations, and more. It's a natural for contest presentations and other im...

Hard swinging Art Blakey styled medium tempo F minor blues. Solos for trumpet and trombone and/or alto. Recorded by the Kansas City Boulevard Big Band on 'Stellar' on Sea Breeze Jazz.

Opening with piano and flugelhorn statement, this Stan Bann original moves through double time rock and swing sections before returning to the original ballad. Tenor solos over the rock section while...

I wrote this arrangement to open my CD, 'Like It Is'. It's always been a tune on which players have loved to improvise, and I thought this unique rendition would not only give the tune a different and...

An up tempo tour de force for big band with occasional slow slinky swing sections. Alto and trumpet soloists are featured. Angular melodies based on the Hagans' approach to improvisation abound. As wi...

A medium swing but heavily orchestrated composition. A moving ensemble where every note is a new chord. Requires rhythmic accuracy and impeccable intonation. Several beautiful melodies are presented i...

Up-tempo swing. Feature for trumpet/tenor duo in front of band. An examination of the vertical and horizontal aspects and powers of the three basic blues chords: 17, IV7 and V7. An open form contrapun...

Medium swing. One fat chord introduces a bass solo before the actual intro and head are played. A puckish melody is developed throughout. This chart also features a small band soli for mixed instrumen...

Medium swing 32-bar song form. The entire melody is comprised of upper extensions of the chords, hence the title. A challenging chord progression features bass and tenor soloists but can be opened up...

Medium swing. Written for Mats Garberg, tenor soloist with the Norrbotten Big Band (hence the name), Garlicks is a joyous, quirky romp featuring wild tenor the entire way. The soloist plays a cadenza...

Medium Swing .Soprano Sax/Flute, Alto Sax/Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax 1, Tenor Sax 2/Clarinet, Baritone Sax 4 Trumpets and a Solo Trumpet 4 Trombone Piano, Bass, Drum .A study in counterpoint and themati...

This is a medium blues swing chart in the key G, dedicated to the great trumpet player Maynard Ferguson. Scored for 5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, and rhythm, no doubles. There is an optional bass...

This is a medium blues swing chart in the key of F, dedicated to the late great bassist Paul Chambers. This chart features the bass player with an optional cadenza at the beginning followed by a blues...

This is a up blues swing chart that features the tenor sax. The chart has no melody so it requires the tenor player to be a good soloist with a good musical imagination. The introduction is a slow, th...

his is a great chart with several different sections in a hard bop feel, a funk groove and a funk/swing feel. There is a funk tenor solo section and a cookin' swing (hard bop) trumpet solo section, wi...

Denise is a great sounding ballad dedicated to my beautiful wife Denise. It is a flugel horn feature. It switches back and forth from ballad feels, doble time half time feels, to swing feels throughou...

Basically Long John is an exciting medium swing guitar feature based on G blues. What did you expect, E blues? Dave wrote this chart spcifically for his good friend, John Sterling, a great all round g...

Challenging 5/4 medium tempo, blues inspired swinger. Tenor & Trumpet solos and tricky ensemble choruses. Recorded by The New England Jazz Ensemble on Sea Breeze Jazz.

An exciting swinging flag waver with challenging sax statements, splashes of odd rhythms and funk beats, sax and brass solo sections and an extremely powrful shout chorus. Recorded by The New England...

A slow swinger at MM = 110 that features the 1st trombone, a piano with 2 choruses each and an interlude in between where upon the ensemble settles into a swingin building groove until the end.

A big production arrangement featuring sax, trpt, and trbn solis - no solos. Trbn soli is one and 3/4's choruses going up to high D on the lead part. It has a reoccuring interlude using straight 8th p...

A very slow swing caling for precision in execution. Features a jazz flute solo on the lead alto part. Tempo doubles in the middle and then back to tempo 1 for the last chorus.