Partitions pour big bands

A Capella style scoring with piano and piano trio interludes. Trpts double on flugel.

Medium jazz waltz. Doubles: flute 1 & 2, clarinet 1 & 2, bass clarinet, flugels. Flugel and tenor sax solos.

Shuffle, featuring dueling tenors. No doubles. Soli passage for bari, bass, and piano. Premiered at the first 'Live Music Awareness' event (sponsored by AFofM Local 6) held at the Yerba Buena Gardens,...

This is a very exciting, boiling-energy funk-fusion piece which challenges the whole band but features tenor sax & drums.Recorded by Bruce Lofgren Jazz Orch on ' The Blues and Other Passions'.

Moving jazz waltz w/nice chord changes a/ a tinge of melancholy. Great flute feature which shows off the whole band in extended ensemble passages. Flute or clarinet dbls for all sax parts. Scored for...

Medium tempo driving 12/8 blues [16 bar form]. This is a solo vehicle for alto sax which builds intensity through background patterns by the horns & rhythm. Strong ending.

High spirited flag waving version of the theme from the 'Bluegrass'. Chart features Alto, Trpt solos. No Dbls. Recorded by the Miles Osland Little Big Band on Sea Breeze Jazz.

Up tempo treatment of the anthem from the Hoosier State. A great opener.

Petite Bete Noir was commissioned by Gene Aitken for the Greeley Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band. Written in a somewahat minimalist style, the piece is based on a four-note cell in the bass voices who...

Written for the Univ. of Miami Concert Jazz Band. This E.C.M groove [St. 8th feel], features Flugelhorn, Soprano & Sax section. 5/5/5/4.

Tunnel is a musical impression of a solitary ride, late at night through a tunnel in the center of a big city. A straight-eigth note piano ostinato sets the course for the reflective melody that is fi...

The most striking aspect of this beautiful, contemporary jazz waltz is how intimate a big band can be made to sound. Guitar & Tenor sax are given a great deal of melody as well as extended solo statem...

A lovely, 3/4 ballad featuring guitar (John Abercrombie) that tries to capture the late afternoon/early evening skies in Tuscany. The pensive 'A' section stated in the guitar is contrasted by a delica...

Fun, excitement, and the best ride in the land - that's what an E Ticket used to get ya'. Well, guess what...it still does! Written for the amazing talents of Ingrid Jensen; this piece features the tr...

Chuck initially composed this catchy little ditty for four horns and rhythm. The funky-N' Awlins groove was so much fun the big band arrangement was sure to follow. Solos (scored for tenor sax and org...

This is the one being recorded by the Army Jazz Ambassadors as part of a tribute to Benny Carter.

Dave Liebman commissioned this for his NY Big Band, but we just recorded it with his permission for the new Surge CD as well. He performed it recently with Univ. of Miami - so imagine he will continue...

Slow, wonderful feeling blues. Features Guitar & Trpt. Recorded by Rob McConnel & the Boss Brass OEven Canadians Get the BluesO.

This an up-tempo burner to feature your tenor saxes. (optional parts can make it one alto and one tenor.) It was written to feature the great Pete Christlieb and Kansas City's Bill Caldwell on the Bou...

A boogaloo in the Sidewinder tradition. Solo for 1st alto. Trombone section featured throughout starting with an unaccompanied intro and then a voiced soli after the theme is stated. Sure to have ever...

This piece asks the following question: 'Can the blues be played without actually playing the blues progression?' There is an emotional progression that lies beneath the chord progression. The theoret...

An up tempo rhythm changes chart written for and recorded by John Von Ohlen and the Blue Wisp Big Band. Features a wild sax soli with soprano lead (alternate alto included.) Solos for trombone, piano,...

Inspired by the emotions of hearing jazz for the first time, this piece describes the evergrowing intensity of those emotions after many years of a life in jazz. Wild alto and trumpet solos are called...

The up tempo opening statement, featuring 6-part counterpoint, tests the listener's limits of comprehension. After examination of the individual melodies, thematic expansion and development, not to me...

Penned and punned by Peter Erskine, based on the standard Just In Time. Worth The Wait reflects arranger Tim Hagans affection and reverence for the composing and trumpet playing of Thad Jones. Humor,...