Swinging Christmas Songs for Big Band

This Oliver Nelson melody was originally recorded with a small group. Bob Curnow took this great tune and arranged it for big band in a very hip way! Set in an easy swing feel, this chart has quite a...

This Oliver Nelson melody was originally recorded with a small group. Bob Curnow took this great tune and arranged it for big band in a very hip way! Set in an easy swing feel, this chart has quite a...

Short, sweet and swingin'! Willie Maiden's arrangement of I'll Be Seeing You packs a whopper in a tiny box, making this chart perfect as an encoure closer for any set. As recorded by Maynard Ferguson...

Vern Sielert has created a marvelous arrangement of Michel LeGrand's extremely popular melody. As recorded by the North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band, it is set in a modern ECM swing feel. The melody is...

Vern Sielert has created a marvelous arrangement of Michel LeGrand's extremely popular melody. As recorded by the North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band, it is set in a modern ECM swing feel. The melody is...

This is a lovely, cool, easy-swing chart that explores linear material as written for and recorded by the North Texas One O'clock Lab Band (Lab 2013). Flute and bass clarinet doubles are required, and...

Here is a free swinging, remarkable chart from a new writer for Sierra. Allan Ganley's reputation and legacy in England drew our attention to this marvelous arrangement of One Morning in May. The arra...

The Count Basie Orchestra performed the music of Billy Byers for many, many years. His arrangement of Come Fly With Me is recorded on the Basie album Frankly Basie: Count Basie Plays the Hits of Frank...

Billy Byers' arrangement of I'll Never Smile Again will take you back to a time when dancing to a slow swing tune, played by a live big band in a ballroom filled with amazing sounds, was the absolute...

Many have tried, but few have been able to match the incredible swing that happens when you combine Billy Byers' arranging with the Count Basie Orchestra. Originally recorded on the Basie album Frankl...

As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on their album Count Basie's Finest Hour, 'Doodle Oodle' is a barn-burning Billy Byers original. In usual Basie fashion, this chart swings its tail off with in...

Sierra Music offers another Billy Byers masterpiece written for and recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on their album Frankly Basie. Set as a medium swing in the inimitable style of the Basie band,...

Your audiences will love this clever baroque flavored chart. If you choose, you may also feature a separate woodwind quartet (2 flutes, 2 clarinets) within the structure of the piece. A very neat addi...

Bill Holman's music never disappoints, and 'Introduction to an Ending' is no exception! Originally written for and recorded on the Charlie Barnet Big Band 1967 album, this straight-ahead blues tune fe...

If you are looking for a modern arrangement with a classic feel, Drew Zaremba has done just that with Dave Brubeck's 'Cassandra.' Recorded by the University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band on thei...

As recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra, 'Ku-Damm' is the 1st movement of the Impressions of Berlin suite. Based on the blues, as so much of Oliver's music was, this bright swing (waltz feel) start...

Originally composed by Bill Holman for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Bob Curnow's arrangement of 'Solos' scores the melody in the unison saxophone section and is written for 8-brass. A straight-ahead, sw...

If there is one chart which seems to capture the essence of Stan's mid-fifties bands, this is the one! The chart swings like mad from downbeat to the end. This is one of Bill Holman's best early chart...

As recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra on their album Berlin Dialogue for Orchestra, 'Checkpoint Charlie' is some of Nelson's most creative writing. Full of uptempo energy, Nelson masterfully inte...

As recorded by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra on their album Berlin Dialogue for Orchestra, 'Checkpoint Charlie' is some of Nelson's most creative writing. Full of uptempo energy, Nelson masterfully inte...

Ever heard of 'Take the A Train?' Not like this you haven't! Another ingenious arrangement from the towering Rich DeRosa, this up-tempo swing chart is a journey through creative waters from beginning...

Based on Lew Pollack's Dixieland composition of 'That's a Plenty', Les Hooper has arranged an exciting uptempo chart that features solo space for soprano saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and drums. This...

Written for the 50th Anniversary of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival (2017), this chart will get your band and your audience up and swingin'!  There is plenty of solo space for Tenor Saxophone, Piano...

Bill Holman has given us a superb gift on his 90th birthday - his gift of swing, humor, great melody, and his always exciting ensemble passages. Here is his newest original - a buoyant, optimistic, ha...

This arrangement by Bob Curnow is a fresh, swingin' take on a classic jazz standard. Written with plenty of solo space for alto saxophone and trumpet, and wonderful weaving harmonic and unison lines t...