Ballads for Jazz Ensemble

This is a must-have solo feature for alto saxophone! Dave Wolpe is one of the finest writers ever and this chart is one of his very best. With a Kenton-esque rubato introduction, Dave proceeds with a...

feat. tenor or soprano sax

This Gershwin classic has been performed and recorded countless times, and now it's time for your beginning players to play and learn this gorgeous standard! Arranger Mike Lewis has scored Embraceable...

This Gershwin classic has been performed and recorded countless times, and now it's time for your beginning players to play and learn this gorgeous standard! Arranger Mike Lewis has scored Embraceable...

Count Basie is also known as a composer. This slow swing composed by the legendary Count and arranged by Roy Phillippe will make your young band sound like old pros. Written solos bounce around the ba...

A marvelous tune by Hoagy Carmichael arranged by one the best in the business, Dave Wolpe. Treated as a ballad, this chart features your tenor sax player throughout with plenty of solo space. There is...

opt. Stimmen für Flöte, Klarinette, Horn, Bariton Horn, Tuba, Violine, Bratsche und Cello

A hit by vocal star Josh Groban, sung as a tribute to the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts, this uplifting melody is arranged by Mike Smukal for the young jazz ensemble. Featuring a tenor sax solo wi...

A hit by vocal star Josh Groban, sung as a tribute to the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts, this uplifting melody is arranged by Mike Smukal for the young jazz ensemble. Featuring a tenor sax solo wi...

A hit by vocal star Josh Groban, sung as a tribute to the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts, this uplifting melody is arranged by Mike Smukal for the young jazz ensemble. Featuring a tenor sax solo wi...

This wonderful jazz standard by Thad Jones is now updated by John Denton. It moves smoothly through a few styles as a ballad, a moderate jazz waltz, and a bossa in four all the while keeping the beaut...

This wonderful jazz standard by Thad Jones is now updated by John Denton. It moves smoothly through a few styles as a ballad, a moderate jazz waltz, and a bossa in four all the while keeping the beaut...

Lush, dynamic, and orchestral are a few words to describe this ballad brilliantly arranged by Alan Baylock. No individual soloists, but Alan's ensemble scoring went above and beyond to create a sophis...

Chuck Mangione's huge hit arranged by Victor Lopez, 'Feels so Good' features the Flugelhorn solo (on the 1st trumpet part) throughout with the distinctive melody and then a written out solo along with...

The beautiful Gershwin ballad shines in this strong Dave Wolpe arrangement for jazz ensemble with solo vocalist. We were surprised that Dave had not scored this tune before, but it was worth the wait....

The beautiful Gershwin ballad shines in this strong Dave Wolpe arrangement for jazz ensemble with solo vocalist. We were surprised that Dave had not scored this tune before, but it was worth the wait....

A wonderful ballad for the solo vocalist written in two keys for flexibility. Arranger Dave Wolpe, one of the best in the business, has written this swing ballad in G minor and C minor with reversible...

Recorded by Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Jazz Big Band Arrangement This is quite possibly the best arrangement of this standard ever conceived. Written in 1976 and featured on the Boss Brass album...

Originally written and arranged for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1956, this version of Benny Golson's tribute to the late Clifford Brown, 'I Remember Clifford,' has become a favorite ballad...

This arrangement was written by Billy Strayhorn in 1963 and was first performed in Sweden on March 9, 1964. While on tour in Europe during that year Ellington introduced several pieces as Impressions...

Despite the overall optimistic nature of the song, 'There's a Boat Dats Leavin' Soon For New York' ultimately serves the role of setting up the tragic ending of George and Ira Gershwin's 'Porgy and Be...

Blues for Pablo was originally written for Hal McKusick for inclusion on his Jazz Workshop LP recorded in 1956 for RCA Victor Records (this album also included Jambangle, which was later re-orchestrat...

In early 1967 Strayhorn, who was suffering from esophagael cancer and the effects of radiation treatment, set out to compose a multi-movement work in which one of sections was to be titled Blue Cloud....

RECORDED BY THE MILES DAVIS/GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF This is the brilliant ballad treatment of the Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin standard by Gil Evans as recorde...

In 1959 Mercer Ellington assembled his dad's working ensemble in a New York studio to record an album for Coral Records that is known as Colors in Rhythm. The idea was to take a few of Mercer's origin...