Intermediate Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble and Big Band

This one BURNS! With clever shifts from swing to samba, trombone section features, hard swinging figures, a hip sax soli, and huge ensemble shouts, this one is the perfect showcase for your top level...

Get ready to move! Opening with a warm and sultry flute solo (opt. Alto or Flugelhorn) this chart transitions into a burning Son Montuno with an infectious melody full of lots of syncopations. Meticul...

This fresh bossa setting of the classic #1 hit by Leon Russell prominently features your lead trombone player as a soloist as well as the sax section. The solo section cleverly breaks into a double-ti...

Written by bebop composer Tadd Dameron as a tribute to jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, this jazz standard belongs in every jazz musician's repertoire. With a short 16-bar form, this tune is a great intr...

This jazz standard composed by Dave Brubeck came to prominence on the landmark 1957 Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaboration Miles Ahead. Mike Tomaro's arrangement takes the composition in a somewhat diffe...

From his early cool period, this Miles Davis standard is arranged here in a contemporary setting featuring alto sax and flugelhorn on the melody. Solo space is provided for each, and a full band soli...

Featuring a distinctive up-beat groove in 7/4 throughout (3+4), Mark's inventive original is a fabulous duet feature for trumpet and tenor sax. In between the duet statements and solos are full ensemb...

Monika Herzig's blistering Just Another Day at the Office was originally recorded by her band Sheroes and featured in the publication New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers (Berklee Press,...

Monika Herzig's blistering Just Another Day at the Office was originally recorded by her band Sheroes and featured in the publication New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers (Berklee Press,...

Monika Herzig's blistering Just Another Day at the Office was originally recorded by her band Sheroes and featured in the publication New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers (Berklee Press,...

Monika Herzig's blistering Just Another Day at the Office was originally recorded by her band Sheroes and featured in the publication New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers (Berklee Press,...

The classic Earth, Wind & Fire hit is a natural for jazz ensemble. This strong arrangement by Victor López will be a hit with your students. It is funky and wild! (duration 3:21)

This 'barn burner' by outstanding arranger John Wasson was recorded by the very hot Jim Widner Big Band for his commercially available CD Body and Soul on the Chase Music Group label. Pure Latin fire...

Here it is exactly how Count Basie and his orchestra played it! Every detail of this jazz standard has been transcribed and reconstructed by Jeff Hest. What better way to learn about the Basie style t...

This is hotter than hot! Dave Wolpe's expert adaptation of this tune from the Top 10 album by the Brian Setzer Orchestra really swings hard, and it doesn't let up. (Can you believe a big band CD is ne...

The famous version by the Benny Goodman orchestra is faithfully transcribed from the original by Dave Wolpe. It includes the lush vocals of Martha Tilton as well as the improvised solo of famous trump...

Benny Carter's 'Amoroso' was written for one of two sessions the first Renaissance man of jazz made with the Count Basie Orchestra in the early 1960s. The 1962 album 'The Legend' brought together two...

Your band (and audience) will love this intriguing new chart from Australian composer Cam McAllister. Beautiful and evocative this work, inspired by the music of Africa, moves through several extended...

Your band (and audience) will love this intriguing new chart from Australian composer Cam McAllister. Beautiful and evocative this work, inspired by the music of Africa, moves through several extended...

This tune has a comfortable tempo, easy ranges, well-balanced ensemble chorus and a very handsome harmonic structure. All parts are interesting and contribute to the whole picture. Trumpet, alto sax a...

Originally recorded as a soprano sax solo feature on the Sammy Nestico CD A Portrait Of Sammy, this arrangement allows two soloing options: playing it as a (1) soprano feature played by the 2nd Alto p...

Originally written for and recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on the album Have A Nice Day, for the most part this is a very light and melodic rendition of the blues with one full ensemble chorus....

Commissioned by the jazz division of the Illinois Music Educators Association for the 2023 Illinois All State Jazz Ensemble, this straight ahead swinger gives everyone a chance to be heard. This chart...

Commissioned by the jazz division of the Illinois Music Educators Association for the 2023 Illinois All State Jazz Ensemble, this straight ahead swinger gives everyone a chance to be heard. This chart...

This medium advanced chart was commissioned by the Jazz Division of the Illinois Music Educators Association for the 2018 Illinois All State Jazz Ensemble. Alternating between a straight 8th-note feel...