Partitions pour big bands

Description: Medium tempo straight ahead guitar feature in the style of Wes Montgomery. Written for the University of North Texas Award-Winning Two O'Clock Lab Band directed by Jay Saunders. Features...

Medium-tempo piece built around the very funky drums-n-bass groove. This ultra-hip groove (also known as breakbeat) grew out of the James Brown- influenced Rave scene and then morphed into a modern ja...

This is an extremely high energy, quasi-rock funk chart that features the entire band. There's a melody solo for lead tenor, as well as solo space for guitar, soprano sax, and trumpet. Indluding an ee...

It is an astral-travelogue. You can get the flavor of it by imagining yourself floating in space over a big city and observing what is going on in several neighborhoods at once, this having been made...

This is obviously a funk tune, but this one has changes to it! In fact, the changes are difficult, so it takes mature soloists. The small group consists of alto, low trumpet, and high trumpet (or clar...

5-4-4-4. Tenor doubles flute, baritone has optional bass clarinet part. Medium samba (1/2 note=c.88) commissioned by the Warner Robins Air Force Reserve Jazz Ensemble. Lots of linear interplay with so...

An offbeat funk oriented piece in 3/4 time alternating with a 4/4 B section featuring a snaky chromatic funky blues line introduced by a group of 4 horns and then developed by the entire band. May req...

A challenging original that will really give your band something to shoot for. A semi 'out' tpt/ten neo bop line based on the G diminished scaled and ascending half diminished changes proceeds into a...

Funky hip-hop style Brecker Bros. type line reminiscent of Freedom Jazz Dance with a strut feel B section. Solo sections feature more dimished scale vamps followed by a cal and response section over a...

This is probably the most 'outside' chart I've ever written. This is designed for bands that like to deal with very experimental material and would require some work. An angular melody by unison brass...

Opens with a med. up piano/bass/drums esposition of the harmonic framework based upon a series of non functional first inversion chords, followed by an exposition of the main theme ( first by the alto...

Fairly up tempo ensemble double blues featuring an old fashioned sax duel between the first tenor and second alto. Stop time ensemble follows the solos leading to a screaming shout chorus. Great conce...

Medium tempo chart begins with a bass/piano rhythmic figure that sets up a tenor/trumpet bop line of the melody. A decrescendo interlude introduces solos from both tenor and trumpet. The interlude rea...

A Colourful ECM Style composition written for the De Anza College Eight O'clock Daddios Directed by Steve Tyler.The Ogham Stone starts as a dark melodic setting with melody played by Trumpet and Barit...

Essentially the same as the big band version, but for little band. Solo in Bass, Bari, Sax & Drums, some dbls. Scored for A,T,B, 2 Trpts, 1 bone & Rhy. No score.

Med-up blues w/solos for Trpt, Alto, Bone & Piano. Challenging ens playing w/ever changing colors. Alto & Tenor dbl. flute, Bari dbl. Bass Clari. Scored for A,T,B, 2 Trpts, 1 Bone & Rhy.

Up-tempo modal tune. Features solos for Guitar and Tenor sax. Alto doubles Flute/Bari doubles Bass Clarinet.

The chart, Groovin' Hard, as many people have said needs no description. Furthermore, it is considered by many as one of the greatest charts ever recorded by the Buddy Rich Big Band. But, since it has...

A challenging Alto and Tenor sax feature, this rhythm changes tune is highly chromatic but fun! Lead trumpet to written high D. Recorded on Glenn Cashman's Southland Nonet: Music Without Borders and i...

Walrus Little Big Band Charts Series This adaptation from the original Frank Foster big band score is now available for your Little Big Band. Instrumentation is A,T,B saxes, Tpt 1-2, Tbn, Guitar, Pian...

Spacy rock w/meter changes galore, some dbl x jazz, unusual orchestration & lots of wdwd color make up this extended arrangement. Guitar & Piano have the solo space. Dbls.

Comp by Bill Evans arr by Curt. Fieve is an earlier Bill Evans tune based on 'rhythm' changes. The tune (and the arrangement) is a study in tuplets, especially five quarter notes over four. The head i...