Intermediate Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble and Big Band

This wonderful ballad features the alto sax. Recorded by Mel Lewis & The Jazz Orchestra on 'Bob Brookmeyer: Composer, Arranger.'

Song for Jaco is a warm and lyrical ballad of Peter's, which is dedicated to the legendary electric bassist, Jaco Pastorius. Solo contributions are heard from the lead trumpet, the baritone saxophone...

Burungkaka is an Indonesian folk song which is known throughout Malaysia. It is about an old parrot which sits near the window, singing. The children make fun of it in a good-natured manner. Originall...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994.Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestr...

Loose Your Life Life (And It Will Surely Find You) features the tenor saxophone in a gospel-flavored 7/4 funk piece which has roots in my youth, growing up in a family in which my father was a penteco...

La Curandera Negrita is basically a minor blues. Though this piece is written in 6/8, it is perhaps more accurately felt in a lilting triplet divided 4/4-with the dotted quarter receiving the pulse of...

Start your musical set with sophistication and ease: With "Breakfast Wine", published by the renowned Walrus Music Publishing, you bring an extraordinary jazz composition into your big band repertoire...

This gorgeous arrangement of the waltz from the score to It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown captures all its harmonic beauty and features some alluring tone colors including a Flugel Horn, Alto Sax...

Just like the original studio version as scored by the composer. We have faithfully transcribed Plas Johnson's original solo, and have scored the string section lines behind the sax solo onto the elec...

A relaxed 4/4 arrangement, based on the Quincy Jones version from the album 'This Time by Basie' recently re-released on the Reprise label. Mainly featuring the sax section but including muted trumpet...

Another classic melody from The Wizard of Oz that fits great in the jazz swing style! This one moves right along, but is very playable at the medium difficulty level. Dave Wolpe writes everything just...

Over the years George Shutack has penned many beautiful ballads and this one is no exception. Showcasing a trumpet or flugelhorn soloist, lush voicings create a perfect setting for the lyrical melody....

Get the party started with this great arrangement of the dance club hit from Lady Gaga! Phenomenal rhythm section writing will have everyone dancing. Tenor Sax feature. Optional high C for lead Trumpe...

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

Augmented Big Band Vocal. Cy Payne has added full strings (Violins I and II, Viola and Cello) to the usual big band line up to create this augmented chart of the title featured by the unforgettable Am...

My One True Friend is another in a long line of great songs sung by Bette Midler, in the tradition of 'From a Distance' and 'The Wind Beneath My Wings.' This new hit has all of the right ingredients f...

Written in the style of Slide Hampton's Slide's Derangement (recorded by Maynard Ferguson on Message From Newport), this medium-uptempo blues captures the spirit of Slide's chart in a fresh, accessibl...

Grade 3. (Jennings)

Hound Dog is firmly associated with Elvis, and Clapton did a good cover of it too. However, our version is not really rock'n'roll. It opens as a slightly funk latin in C minor, moving to C major for t...

Feature your star female vocalist with this great arrangement of the bossa hit from new sensation, Laufey. Lead trumpet plays an A and lead Trombone plays a G.