Intermediate Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble and Big Band

An up-tempo straight ahead blues 'flag waver' for big bands. This chart cooks from beginning to end including a 'smoking' sax soli. Solos for tenor, trumpet, trombone and bass. Chart is easily opened...

Medium blues. Solos for piano, trumpet w/harmony & Trombone. As recorded by Count Basie Orchestra.

Recorded by Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass on their 1996 Concord Jazz album 'Even Canadians Get the Blues,' this is a burner of a shuffle chart. Featuring a down-home boogie shuffle feel throughout,...

Fun medium-tempo minor blues swinger in the vein of Killer Joe, but with a decidedly tongue-in-cheek melody and a funky, chromatic bari sax, bass bone, and bass melodic feature before the recap. Inclu...

A fun half-time blues with plenty of solo space to go around. The chart begins with an unaccompanied bass solo leading into a repeated groove-based line in the bass and piano that kicks off the full b...

A straight ahead medium blues. Features Tenor and Trumpet solos as well as a bop style reed soli. There is a 3-6-2-5 extension after the exciting out chorus. 5 reeds, 4 trombones, 4 tpts, 4 rhythm. Me...

Smart Alec is a simple 12 bar blues in F. The melody is catchy and fun to play. Here is a chance to give everyone in the band a chance to improvise. 5 saxes, 4 trpt, 4 bones, guitar, piano, bass, drum...

Medium to medium up tempo be-bop blues in F. Can be played with standard instrumentation (lead alto to high F#) or with dbls. Bass Cl substitute provided for 4th Bone. Solos for Bari, Trpt, and Sopran...

A slow 12/8 feel down-to-earth 'B.B. King' style blues. Great solo vehicle for a blues guitarist. A strong ensemble shout chorus that will bring down the house. It is very playable. Solos - guitar, te...

Late w/kate is a medium shuffle blues with a catchy stop-time melody. There are a lot of full ensemble and soli passages to feature your band, and the solo sections for Piano (or optional Vibes). Guit...

Medium tempo blues chart commissioned by the Missouri Music Educators Association, Central District Honors Jazz Band. Chart features melody in the trombones and low saxes, a few chromatic twists in th...

This driving blues shuffle, in the Thad & Mel style, makes a terrific opener. There are a couple of twists: the chart starts in Bb, goes to Eb for the solos(based on blues changes, trasposed for any s...

Moderate walking swing, it's an original feature in the Stan Kenton-Gene Rowland 1960's style. There are solos for the guitar and 1st trombone. Next comes a trombone soli. Then a bass solo leads to th...

This a slow, bluesy feature, with a solo for the 2nd alto sax. It is in an arch form; i.e. A-B-C-B-A, with the solo in the middle section. Has a nice piano-guitar George Shearing-style background sect...

Here is a straight-ahead, swinging blues with a bridge. It features plenty of intricate ensemble work, a Tenor Sax solo, and a breakdown ostinato chorus that shows off the horns. The addition of an op...

This blues-rock tune will leave your audience screaming for more. Vocal 'rap' for any member of the band, with a vocal chorus by the entire horn section. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trom...

A tribute to Mingus, this medium almost-blues is full of surprises. Opens with bass solo, then trombone solo, before the first head. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trombone, and rhythm.

A straight ahead E-minor blues with a little something extra. Imitative counterpoint in the intro and head. Overall solo form is two choruses of blues, a sus-chord focused bridge, and a final chorus o...

From arranger Ron Jones: 'This chart was created as a showcase for my all-star Infuence Jazz Orchestra made up of the top session and jazz players in L.A. I usually put it at the end of the second set...