Jazz Ensemble featuring Alto Saxophone

This is a great transcription by Jon Harpin of a beautifully concieved Neal Hefti composition written as a ballad solo feature for Marshal Royal. If your band has an Alto player that you would like to...

This version of Harlem Nocturne is an Alto feature from the Maynard Ferguson book and has an altogether much cooler feel to it than the ever-present and much played standard stock swing chart. Our cha...

After a short intro the Baritone takes the melody as a solo, followed by the sax team, with the brass finishing off the melody phrase. Trombone 2 picks up the melody as a solo, completed by the whole...

Fred wrote this version first, before creating the shorter, easier version. This also features alto saxophone throughout, but it has a long, double-time section in which the soloist can really stretch...

Beautiful medium slow swing ballad featuring your lead alto. Alto only improvises on last two fermata chords. Eight bar piano solo (written or ad-lib). Nice sax soli and soft ensemble passage ala Basi...

An extended feature for alto saxophone based on pretty ballad style melody, followed by a swing section where the alto leads the section through a difficult soli, and concluding with a fast jazz samba...

This beautiful ballad will be a great feature for the lead alto player especially if he/she favours a contemporary, popular playing style. Scored to be easily mastered by the ensemble this piece shoul...

Commissioned by the Illinois Wesleyan University Jazz Ensemble and performed by several all state ensembles to date, this chart is an alto feature. Like the title, the chart begins as a ballad and lea...

This arrangement features the alto sax in a ballad and swing combination. Recorded by the Maynard Ferguson band, the lyrical theme will become one of your favorites.

Ballad featuring alto sax, and some integral ensemble backgrounds. Begins with a rubato section for alto and piano. Solo section moves to double time swing, followed by a swingin' ensemble soli. Retur...

Ballad feature for alto, part melody, part soloing over changes, part filling in between insemble figures and part soloing over double time feel.

This is a short feature for lead alto. It starts as a ballad with the soloist interweaving figures around a lush brass chorale. Later the hrmonic rhythm is doubles (2 changes to the bar instead of 1)...

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...

Featuring a contemporary sounding groove utilizing even 8th notes, this familiar standard is given a unique treatment in the skilled hands of Mike Tomaro. A trio of tenor sax, trombone and guitar take...

Featuring a contemporary sounding groove utilizing even 8th notes, this familiar standard is given a unique treatment in the skilled hands of Mike Tomaro. A trio of tenor sax, trombone and guitar take...