Frank Foster: Advanced Sheet Music

Here is our take on the Foster classic, taken from Basie's 1981 Carnegie Hall concert, with Sonny Cohn on Trumpet. We have written out the first half of Cohn's solo and left your player to improvise t...

Medium swing chart. Featuring Trpt, Bone & Piano solos. Nice ensemble writing.

After a brassy intro in 2/4, the chart breaks into a medium fast swing. Although this tune is not a blues, the Tenor & Bone follow blues in Bb patterns for four choruses apiece. Exciting 'sudden death...

Medium swing. Written for Count Basie Band. Has great sax soli. Bone, Tenor & Trpt solos.Recorded by Frank Foster and the S.W.R. Big Band on 'Fresh Taste of Thad Jones...'.

A medium swing tempo rouser, this chart features baritone sax. With a one-measure pick-up break at the end of the intro, the 'big E-flat' states the melody of this B-flat blues, then takes off on its...

This arrangement is part of Frank Foster's Vintage Basie Series, compositions performed and/or recorded by Count Basie and his world famous New Testament orchestra between 1953 and 1960. It's another...

Your big band has just shaken the earth off its foundation with one of your monster flag wavers, now you'd like to cool things down with a somewhat relaxed swinger. Try Katherine The Great. She's also...

The fourth movement of the Count Basie Remembrance Suite, is a medium tempotune whose main purpose is to swing HARD! No tiptoeing through the tulips on this one, please! Although it starts off fairly...

A nice groovy medium tempo piece that swings right along, with solos for 2nd alto sax and 4th trumpet. Based on 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes, the arrangement contains a few 'boppish' licks in the melo...

A 16-bar blues that's just a little too happy to really be bluesy, 'Strut' lopes along with a medium up-tempo swinging motion with several 'two-five' progressions in its harmonic framework. solos by t...

This up-tempo swinger is dedicated to one of Chicago;s finest and one of the world's most fiery tenor saxophonists, Johnny Griffin. The challenging melody, based mostly on 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes...

Written for and featuring acclaimed guitarist George Benson with the Count Basie Orchestra, 'Ready Now' takes us on a swinging mildly up-tempo (but not too up) excursion through some slightly challeng...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra, here is Sammy Nestico's classic arrangement of this Frank Foster jazz standard! Including all the signature piano stylings, muted brass on the first strain, s...