Christmas Songs for Jazz Ensemble

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

AS RECORDED BY COUNT BASIE ARRANGED BY ERNIE WILKINS, TRANSCRIBED BY JONATHAN LORENTZ On a warm, July day in 1961 Ernie Wilkins came to a Count Basie Orchestra gig at Birdland in New York with a newly...

This bright swinging chart of the Christmas standard was arranged by Frank DeVol for Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 album 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.' This was arranged to feature a solo vocalist a...

Although Marty Paich's arrangement of 'Moonlight On The Ganges' (written for the 1958 Ella Fitzgerald album 'Ella Swings Lightly') starts off in a conventional manner, the multiple tempo shifts over t...

It should come as no surprise that Marty Paich was chosen to write the arrangements for the 1958 album 'Ella Swings Lightly.' Paich's 'dektette' writing for Mel Tormé had brought him some of hi...

Swing @ 210 b.p.m. 'It Happened in Sun Valley' was written for the 1941 film 'Sun Valley Serenade', featuring Sonja Henie, John Payne and the Glenn Miller Orchestra with the Modernaires. We have recre...

Swing. A/A/T/T/B Trpt.1,2,3,4,optl.5 Bones 1,2,3,4,optl. 5 French Horn optl. P/B/D. Trpt.1 to written high Eb. Solos: features both altos. Chart end with a dueling alto finish.

Man nehme ein bekanntes Weihnachtslied, übergebe es einem kreativen Arrangeur und dann erhält man eine pulsierende Rocknummer, die volelr instrumentaler und dynamischer Kontraste steckt. Nach einer Au...

This rock rendition of the classic holiday carol 'Away in a Manger' is great fun for bands to play, and audiences to hear! With an irresistible groove, this arrangement includes an open solo section f...

This re-imagining of a classic holiday staple 'O Christmas Tree' will be a sure-fire favorite on your holiday concert! Influenced by the sounds of Latin America, this arrangement includes a fun montun...

'Good King Swings A Lot' is a fresh new twist on the classic carol 'Good King Wenceslas' for the Jazz Starters series. Not only a great way to start teaching swing style, but the four-bar solo section...

A brief, lyrical introduction leads to an exciting, up-tempo swing version of this classic Christmas carol. Following the unison statement of the theme in the trombones, each section of the band gets...