Frederick "Dave" Snider

This is a up blues swing chart that features the tenor sax. The chart has no melody so it requires the tenor player to be a good soloist with a good musical imagination. The introduction is a slow, th...

his is a great chart with several different sections in a hard bop feel, a funk groove and a funk/swing feel. There is a funk tenor solo section and a cookin' swing (hard bop) trumpet solo section, wi...

Denise is a great sounding ballad dedicated to my beautiful wife Denise. It is a flugel horn feature. It switches back and forth from ballad feels, doble time half time feels, to swing feels throughou...

Basically Long John is an exciting medium swing guitar feature based on G blues. What did you expect, E blues? Dave wrote this chart spcifically for his good friend, John Sterling, a great all round g...

A String Bass Feature In Memory of Ray Brown. Poor Butterfly is a straight ahead medium but hard swingin' chart (quarter note=175) that features the string bass playing the melody and soloing. It was...

Anvil Chorus is a straight-ahead hard swingin' chart (quarter note=240) rescored for mini-big band. Anvil Chorus was originally written by Giuseppe Verdi in 1853 as part of his opera La Traviata. Duri...

This is is a medium up-tempo (190=BPM) New York four-on-the- floor shuffle. First recorded in 1987 by Bob Berg and his combo, it has become a contemporary standard played all over the world and record...

This chart has a great Killer Joe type groove and a very beautiful melody. There is a great sax soli and a challenging tutti section. This chart is a great first-set closer or opener of a second set....

The Opener, written by James Morrison, an Australian jazz trumpet virtuoso, is an up tempo 'rhythm changes' trumpet feature with a short 16 bar drum solo. There can be other soloists added depending o...

A jazz composition by bassist Christian McBride, this is a fantastic melodic and technically challenging string bass feature from his 1994 CD Gettin' It Together. It has become a popular standard for...