Swinging Christmas Songs for Big Band

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

This familiar holiday classic is perfect for beginning jazz ensembles. Arranged here in a moderate tempo swing style, Rick's chart is primarily ensemble based, but also provides a short solo for trump...

AS RECORDED BY COUNT BASIE ARRANGED BY ERNIE WILKINS, TRANSCRIBED BY JONATHAN LORENTZ On a warm, July day in 1961 Ernie Wilkins came to a Count Basie Orchestra gig at Birdland in New York with a newly...

This bright swinging chart of the Christmas standard was arranged by Frank DeVol for Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 album 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.' This was arranged to feature a solo vocalist a...

Although Marty Paich's arrangement of 'Moonlight On The Ganges' (written for the 1958 Ella Fitzgerald album 'Ella Swings Lightly') starts off in a conventional manner, the multiple tempo shifts over t...

It should come as no surprise that Marty Paich was chosen to write the arrangements for the 1958 album 'Ella Swings Lightly.' Paich's 'dektette' writing for Mel Tormé had brought him some of hi...