Jazz Ensemble Blues Sheet Music

Exciting blues in a double-time, dedicated to a man who spent his life working with chemical and biological weapons ('bugs and gas'.) The unison shout section will leave the audience gasping for air....

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.

This is a medium shuffle blues (quarter note=132) in D flat, originally scored by Frank Foster for the Basie Orchestra. It has now been reduced for a little big band--(2tpt, 1 t-bone, 3 saxes, and rhy...

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...

The Blues in Overdrive is just what it says and means, the blues played at a very challenging tempo, 270+= BPM, in a hard-bop style. Every section of the band is challenged both with written parts and...

No-Name Game is a cooking shuffle in Ab based on a 16-bar blues pattern. Features solo space for Alto and Trumpet 2 to stretch out, with an exciting shout chorus. A great opener with a solid groove an...

Written by W.C. Handy 'The Father Of The Blues'. Recorded by Harry James and Nat King Cole. Great down home feeling arrangement. Open section for all to solo. Tpt. 1 top note 'A' top of staff. Scored...

A medium to up tempo shuffle adapted from the original recording, Friday Night at the Cadillac Club is a tenor feature with open solo opportunities for guitar and piano/organ. Guitar can be optional....

Walrus Little Big Band Charts Series Fast altered blues. Solos for trumpet and tenor sax. Contrasting ensemble interludes and a shout chorus with a surprise ending. Top trumpet note: written F above t...

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...