Swinging Christmas Songs for Big Band

A holiday favorite for sure, this chart is a bossa nova at 128 BPM. It's a fine arrangement, well-notated, tasty, and a breeze to assemble for a concert. With a written solo for either 1st or 2nd alto...

'Feliz Navidad' gehört zu den berühmtesten lateinamerikanischen Weihnachtsliedern. Christoph Piasetzki arrangierte eine zauberhafte Big Band-Version mit Gesang. Der gerade Bossa in den Strophen ergänz...

Here is a great jazz ensemble arrangement for your more experienced band. Leroy Anderson's clever holiday tune joined with Mike Lewis's creative treatment makes this a must-have in your library. Mike...

One of most iconic holiday tunes of all time, The Christmas Song is treated here in a masterfully constructed setting featuring a flugelhorn soloist. Set in a traditional ballad style, Mark's arrangem...

This Latin chart at the medium easy level is sure to light up your next holiday concert. Featuring Joy To The World, Good King Wenceslas and We Wish You A Merry Christmas, it's supported by solid ense...

Arranger Steve Parsons scored a hit recently with his clever Christmas chart called "Sleighin' It," and this new arrangement picks up where that one left off. It is "Up on the Housetop" with a funky M...

This creative, funk-style arrangement of the popular Welsh air is featured on The Adventures In Jazz Orchestra Celebrates Christmas CD. As the arranger puts it, this is a party song and the party has...

Here is a really unusual take on a well known Christmas carol. The chart opens in a 'Baroque' allegro with the reeds and brass in call and response and then shifts to an 8 funk groove led by the saxes...

Based on the traditional 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,' this samba treatment cooks. After a short chorale intro, the samba rhythm kicks in either cut time or bright-four groove. Written-out solos are...

Need something that goes together quickly for that holiday concert that still sounds great? Rick Stitzel's easy Latin-style arrangement of this Christmas classic has plenty of tutti playing for the en...

This well-known standard is usually performed as a duet and has been recorded countless times over the years, and notably in the holiday movie favorite Elf starring Will Ferrell. This charming arrange...

Includes: Blue Christmas - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays - Jingle Bells - The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Silver Bells.

Sammelband aus der beliebten Easy Pak-Reihe von Hal Leonard. Vier Weihnachtslieder für Big Band im Set, leicht arrangiert von Jerry Nowak und Bob Lowden. Schwierigkeitsgrad 2.

The touching and beautiful ballad from A Charlie Brown Christmas makes a wonderful addition to your holiday concert featuring a vocal soloist.

Be sure to bring the hip side of Frosty to your next holiday event with this swingin' version for beginning groups. Including short solos for trumpet that can also be played as section features, this...

Holiday jazz by Gordon Goodwin. This adaptation of 'Oh Tannenbaum' is quite an adventure offering a chorale, some Basie style and fast and furious Goodwin bebop. Solo space for alto and tenor sax, tru...

Gordon Goodwin gives this easy-to-play holiday chart a jazz waltz treatment. Features include: a soprano sax part (alternate alto 1 part), a 2nd alto part with flute (alternate 2nd alto sax-only) and...

A superb holiday swinger at around 180 BPM. The melody is generously passed around the ensemble to keep everyone happy, plus there is written-out solo space for tenor, alto, piano and some drum fills,...

Check this this clever arrangement of the holiday gem 'Little Drummer Boy.' It's a drumset feature at around 172 BPM in the style of Neal Hefti's 'Cute' with a written trumpet 2 solo. The lead trumpet...

Gordon Goodwin's 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day' is played at a medium swing around 120 BPM. The lead trumpet range is up to written high G, there are terrific shout choruses, a few modulations,...

Wonderful Dream - wer kann sich nicht an den Song erinnern, zu dem die Coca Cola-Trucks durch die Winterlandschaft fuhren?

This traditional French carol gets a fresh and interesting "makeover" in the Swing style. It is always a challenge to write a new arrangement of a familiar carol, and Peter Sciaino does a great job of...

This magnificent scoring of Carol of the Bells by Rich DeRosa (professor of composition/arranging at University of North Texas) was part of a long overture originally commissioned by the WDR Big Band,...

Written in a George Shearing style, this Frank DeVol arrangement was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in 1960 for her 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' album. The chart is written for five woodwinds (...

Opening with a Broadway style fanfare before transitioning between a samba and swing, this fresh take on a traditional holiday favorite is as much fun to listen to as it is to play! Solo changes for A...