Ballads for Jazz Ensemble

Bring timeless elegance and pure emotion to the stage with "The Shadow Of Your Smile" from the award-winning film The Sandpiper. Composed by Johnny Mandel, this world-famous ballad captivates audience...

This has to be one of the most expressive ballads of the year. Frank Comstock has given his personal magic to this wonderful standard, and the result is pure musical enjoyment. Should be everyone's li...

(A LOVE STORY) - Ballad with dbl-x section. Challenging Alto sax feature. No score. Recorded by the Matt Catingub Big Band on Sea Breeze Jazz, My Mommy and Me.

Ballad. Chord progression of this Bone feature may be recognized as Beatles hit. Chart moves to heavy Latin tempo. Middles section is fast swing.

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...

With "Now That She's Away," published by Walrus Music Publishing, you bring a deeply moving and richly textured work into your big band repertoire. The expressive title promises a poignant musical nar...

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...