Partitions pour big bands

This one just swings! Easy to play counterpoint between high voices, low voices. Easy changes. Great shout chorus! Can be played with 6 horns & rhythm.

Up-tempo swing. This high-energy big band piece starts off with a full ensemble shout and drops its energy down into a short piano solo. The band then enters with fragments of the main melody, using b...

Medium tempo. straight eights in 3/4. Woodwind doubles (clarinet/bass clarinet). One of Dan's most popular (and most performed) pieces! Starting off with pedal point C in the bass, this lush piece dev...

Relaxed Swing in 3/4. Phase Space is set in a relaxed mood with the melody first outlined by the lead trombone. Solo space for trumpet or trombone comes first after the melody with backgrounds sneakin...

Up-tempo Swing. This driving, exciting piece explores changes from stability to instability and back to stability again. Quick, explosive motifs in the beginning of the piece give way to a developing...

Foundations was written in honor of Dan Burkholder, the first jazz band director at the Univ of Texas at Arlington. This ballad is a flugelhorn feature throughout. Starting with a lush introduction wi...

Albequirky was written for the 2007 New Mexico All State Jazz Band. A cross between a tribute to Benny Golson and Thelonious Monk, this relaxed swingin' chart (q=116) features comfortable ensemble wri...

Tunnel Vision was commissioned by the Keokuk High School Jazz Program in Keokuk, IA. This chart makes a great complement to straight-ahead swing tunes with its straight-eighth, cross-stick groove. A n...

Wtih a drum solo out front, this up-tempo swinger features modal A sections and simple changes on the bridge, serving as a great introductory chart to faster playing without all the complicated chord...

(Concept music) Medium swing for easy medium level. Trumpet range to G, trombone to F.

(Concept music) Up-tempo swing for easy-medium level. Trumpet to G, trombone to F.

Up-tempo swing for easy-medium level. Trpt range to A, Trbn Gb.

Moderately up-tempo 5/4 swing (180-190 bpm) with rock section. John says'The key is getting the rhythm section to feel 5/4 swing so it's not just 3+2. Billy Kilson, drummer for Dave Holland, is an exc...

5 sax, 4tpt., 4 tbn., piano, bass, drums, vibes/opt. guitar. Fast modern swing, backbeat rock. Tempo: mm=136. Tpt range: G (top of staff). Soloists: alto 1, tenor 1, drums. This piece has many intrica...

5 sax, 4 tpt., 4 tbn., guitar piano, bass, drums. Medium tempo swing feel. Tempo: mm=110. Tpt range: high F#, tbn high Bb. This multi-faceted composition makes for a great swing groove, suggesting 12/...

Great swing chart. Front line baritone sax & flute unison with nice ensemble writing. Dbls.

Swing chart featuring trombone solo.

Medium swing chart featuring trumpet & tenor solos.

Medium swing chart featuring trumpet and bass solos on this Lionel Hampton-Ruby Fisher chart.

Medium swing chart featuring trumpet solo.

Easy melody, easy groove, Ensemble feature, medium swinger.

Lots of deft Anderson touches in this hard-swinging Lionel Hamilton-Ruby Fisher tune featuring extended tenor and trombone solos, brief piano solo.

Medium tempo, contemporary sounding original featuring lead tenor throughout. Alternates between broken swing and straight 8th note sections. Overall the chart relies on the (advanced) soloist however...

An exciting modern 3/4 (broken swing) written in tribute to Kenny Wheeler. Explores unusual harmonic progressions and features the ensemble (solo section for guitar and/or piano). 10 brass. Alto 1 dou...

This is a wonderful medium up swing minor blues composition which employs a few interesting metric modulations ( i.e. tempo changes). The sax soli is very interesting, the solo changes are straight fo...