Ballads for Jazz Ensemble

A beautiful ballad feature for soprano (or alto) and bari saxes, featuring gorgeous interplay between the soloists over a bed of lush trombones. Always a crowd favorite. No doubles. First trpt to A ab...

Beautiful medium slow swing ballad featuring your lead alto. Alto only improvises on last two fermata chords. Eight bar piano solo (written or ad-lib). Nice sax soli and soft ensemble passage ala Basi...

White Mountain Moonlight is a ballad written in the style of Glen Miller's 'Moonlight Serenade' with Clarinet lead. Like Millennium Jump, it is one of the songs from the big band musical 'Bring 'Em Ba...

This is a ballad....a trombone feature written for Rob McConnell. It has a solo piano intro and lots of dynamic gradations, resulting in an emotionally charged chart. Trumpet D, Trombone B.

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...

Beautiful contemporary groove ballad. Features Trpt & Piano. Flute dbls. Composed by Billy Mitchell, orchestrated By Paul. Recorded by the HMA Salsa Jazz Orchestra 'California Salsa Two' .

A slow ballad that goes into a double time swing and returns to a ballad for the endimg. This medium level chart is a tenor saxophone feature surrounded by rich harmonies and a lot of colorful musical...

Lengthy (9+ minutes). Ballad/waltz written in honor of my cat's favorite toy, Sid the Squid - a weathered, well-loved six-legged sea creature made of foam, fur, leather, and dirt that gets 'hunted' ar...

Bluesy Trbn. Ballad in swing style w/easy ens backing, lots of independent lines for backing interments. Flugelhorns/muter Trpts. Throughout w/easy range requirements. Trpt to B, opt D, solo Trbn to C...

Fairly easy even eigth note ballad. Piano feature, all written out, but also with changes. Top trumpet note written Bb. Harmonically sophisticated and moody.

Wake Up To A Melody is a gorgeous gospel styled ballad featuring tenor sax. The lyrical and gentle melody is supported with lush warm harmonies simply scored in moderate ranges for all instruments; th...

This trumpet feature ballad is a jazz tone poem written in memory of Ashley Alexander and inspired by the last movement of Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss. An expressive meditation, the s...

This beautiful ballad will be a great feature for the lead alto player especially if he/she favours a contemporary, popular playing style. Scored to be easily mastered by the ensemble this piece shoul...

This lovely ballad from the pen of Phil Woods serves, appropriately enough, as a lengthy vehicle for your star alto saxophonist in three capacities - melody, section lead, and soloist. Following a pia...

Evensong is beautiful and pensive ballad in 3/4 featuring baritone saxophone and flugelhorn. After a statement of the lyrical melody from bari and flugel, ample solo space is given to baritone saxopho...

Written for trombonist Andy Martin and the San Jose State University Jazz Orchestra, Emergence is a beautiful, lyrical ballad that features your trombone soloist. The melody ispresented primarily in t...

An emotional ballad feature for trumpet/flugelhorn written to remember Mechelle Hawk. The soloist plays the melody on flugelhorn over lightly but colorfully scored backgrounds, then improvises over th...

Commissioned by the Illinois Wesleyan University Jazz Ensemble and performed by several all state ensembles to date, this chart is an alto feature. Like the title, the chart begins as a ballad and lea...

As recorded on John Daversa's 'Live at Catalina's', this is a jazz ballad enabling a sensitive jazz trumpet solo. There is an a cappella development section for the winds that alludes to classical sen...

A contemporary ballad featuring a trombone soloist on a floating, lyrical melody. The half-time rock feel evolves to a Latin beat followed by a driving samba solo sec. The ballad returns at the end. S...

Up In The Air is a lush ballad that has a floating feel and incorporates solo vignettes into the composition's structure. Solos for trumpet, trombone, alto sax, tenor sax, and/or piano. No doubles. Tr...

After the Rain is a beautiful ballad with an outstretched melody that blurs bar lines and floats, leaving the listener suspended in a dreamy soundscape. An advanced tenor sax soloist will really dig i...

A slow-swinging Count Basie-styled ballad, and a great feature for a flute soloist (or opt. alto). There is a short, dramatic shout section. Lead trumpet plays a written C.5,4,4,P,B,D.

(1982 rev. 1998) 3/4 Ballad. Flugelhorn feature. Commissioned in 1983 by the Fresno City College Jazz Ensemble. All woodwinds double on flute. Top trumpet note: written high C.