Swinging Christmas Songs for Big Band

An easy Basie/Nestico style swinger at a Med Fast tempo. Brass ranges are very comfortable with lots of unisons and full ensemble sections.

A medium tempo 'Basie Style' swing tune that really captures the idiom. Written trumpet and tenor sax solos. Andy Farber is our newsest writer who is currently writing for the Lincold Center Orchestra...

From the 1970 Thad Jones 'Consummation' album, this medium tempo 'rhythm' swinger has been re-scored by Mike Carubia capturing the essence of Thad Jones original. A tasty sax soli section and a slight...

This great chart is recorded on the 'Tonight Show Band, Volume II ' CD (Amherst Records). Man, talk about a romp-stompin' chart ...... this one is sensational. John has set this in its classic boogie-...

Count Basie's great tune gets a smashing treatment from the master arranger Tommy Newsom. This great chart is recorded on the Tonight Show Band, Volume II CD (Amherst Records). With solo space for ten...

This is recorded on the Tonight Show Band CD Once More With Feeling (Amherst Records). Tommy does it again with a marvelous chart on this classic Mercer Ellington tune. This medium shuffle features so...

Chicago is a high-energy, big band bebop arrangement on the popular standard that Mike wrote for Maynard Ferguson's band. It is a bright-swing chart that features solos by alto saxophone, piano, drums...

Bob Curnow has taken this great tune of Benny Carter's and scored it very much in the style of the Count Basie Orchestra. The chart is set in a slow swing tempo and is warm and soulful. There is space...

This wonderful, melodic Mercer Ellington tune is beautifully arranged by Tommy Newsom, and it is recorded on the Tonight Show Band CD 'Once More With Feeling' (Amherst Records). This wonderful chart f...

This is a new edition (Finale computer notation) of this feature for the trombone section. It is available with a full score for the first time. It has also been edited to allow for performance by 8 b...

This wonderful Ellington classic is scored by the great Tommy Newsom to feature alto sax throughout. It is recorded on the 'Tonight Show Band, Volume II ' CD (Amherst Records). Brass ranges are very m...

This great chart is recorded on the Tonight Show Band, Volume II CD(Amherst Records). It has a bit of the Basie touch to it, but it is a very original chart by the great John Bambridge. There is space...

This is one of the great 'unrecorded' (or 'missing') solo features written for the Stan Kenton Orchestra. It features trumpet throughout and is loaded with lots of solo space and terrific Holmanesque...

As written for and recorded by the Woody Herman Orchestra (Columbia), here is a great chart fashioned with a nod to Gerry Mulligan's groups. It is a bright, swing chart with solo spaces for tenor sax,...

Ernie Wilkins was one of the most successful contributors to Maynard Ferguson's amazing big band library. This original is an alto saxophone feature set in a slow, swinging tempo, with a really clever...

As recorded on the CD 'Back to Balboa' (and many other albums), this sensational piece moves along at a fast tempo, featuring solo space (the blues) for alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone and drum...

Holman has done a few arrangements of this tune, and this one may well be the best. Bill wrote this chart for the great Woody Herman Orchestra. It is written in a very bright swing tempo, and there is...

Bob Curnow has created a marvelous modal piece that opens with a fanfare in 6/8 and then moves into a lilting 3-4 swing tempo. There is solo space for alto sax and trumpet. The meter shifts from 3-4 t...

This chart was one of the staples in the Tonight Show Band book, and they performed this often. Tommy created a wonderful setting for this classic jazz standard. There is solo space for trumpet and te...

Oliver's arrangement of this tune (also know as East Side, West Side) is playful in its ensemble writing as it alludes to the hustle and bustle of NYC. The bulk of this chart, though, is really a show...

As recorded by Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band on 'Volume One'(Amherst), this is a red-hot feature for two tenor saxophones (recorded by Pete Christlieb and Ernie Watts). Based on the 'rhythm...

This wonderful, medium-tempo, swinging version of this great classic is recorded on the Stan Kenton Orchestra 'Sketches On Standards' CD. It has wonderful ensemble writing and solo space for tenor sax...

Bill Holman's arrangement, from the Maynard Ferguson Band Boy With Lots Of Brass recording, is a wonderful medium-swing tune with solo space for piano, alto, and trumpet. This chart spans the spectrum...

Bill Holman's arrangement, from the Maynard Ferguson Band 'Boy With Lots Of Brass' recording, is a wonderful medium-swing tune with solo space for piano, alto, and trumpet. This chart spans the spectr...

Recorded by the Tonight Show Band on 'Volume One, The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen,' this is a great chart on a classic jazz standard. This is pretty much a feature for alto saxophone, but th...