Partitions pour Big Band

A cheerful loping big 2 shuffle featuring fluegels/ altos lead. Melody is based on an extended length chorus form in sixteen bar AABA. Solo for ten/tpt and piano. Ensemble chorus does have a few high...

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...

A new twist on the old standard - normally played as an uptempo number, this is a slowed down basie style walking tempo (ala shiny stockings) chart featuring plunger muted brass. Careful attention to...

Obviously a contrfact based on 'just friends' - fairly up tempo happy feeling straight ahead chart featuring linear counterpoint between tens/bones and tpts/altos. Solo for ten, tpt, bone followed by...

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...

This space-age piece was written for astronaut Jan Davis, and is designed to portray the experience of spaceflight and viewing a sunrise from space. Solos for trumpet and piano. Changing time signatur...

Haunting ensemble ballad in an orchestral style. Changes for flugelhorn solo. No drums (rainstick and triangle instead.) Flute in one tenor part; lead trumpet to Bb5.

This is a lovely bolero. It is a tribute to my wife's mother who has passed away. This one is not difficult and only requires one fluegel for doubles. Fluegel and tenor are featured on the melody (Sep...

A medium-slow blues that leans lightly on Ellington and a bit heavier on New Orleans. In fact, the first chorus is stated by the trio of clarinet, muted trumpet and muted trombone that will be familia...

This chart is a fierce, mid-tempo, funk steamroller. It never varies from the basic groove of from the 12-bar blues structure. However, a simple harmonic device (sliding up and down a semitone on each...

This simple Jaujira stays largely within the traditional I-IV-V harmonic framework associated with this Cuban dance form. The unique character of this chart is created by attractive melodies, subtle o...

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 medium-groove, laid-back kind of chart that features some lush brass voicings. Opens with a rubato piano chorus with the rest of the rhythm section joining for the 2nd chorus. Winds have a flute sol...

Written for a 5,5,5,4 configuration. A slow (t=56), soft ballad that features a very quiet brass section on this original melody. Solos for muted trumpet and flute lead into a Kentonish ensemble passa...

An up-tempo chart based on the chord changes to popular ballad, the chart starts off with solos from trombone and tenor. A unison bop line for all horns follows leading into the theme as stated by the...

This is an up-tempo blues that features solis for trumpet, trombones and saxes. The sax soli is from a Phil Woods solo, while the trumpet soli is from a Tom Harrell solo. The trombone soli lead is dou...

Ambidextrosity is a medium-up bop tune featuring a Three-in-one-esque frontline of Flugel, Bari Sax, and Bass. There are plenty of intricate ensemble passages and solo space for the three featured ins...

This West Coast Jazz tribute to trumpeter Shorty Rogers and tenor saxophonist Bob Cooper offers a contrapuntal opening theme written over Parker blues changes and features solo sections for both of th...

A modern jazz blues chart featuring Thad Jones-like saxophone section soli voicings with solos for alto, trombone, and bass, although other soloists may easily be added. A thundering shout chorus caps...

Haunting alto saxophone ballad feature; includes a solo spot for piano. Rhythmically sophisticated in places but lead trumpet only plays to a high B above the staff, trombone 1 to a high Bb. 5/4/4/4 n...

Beautiful flugel or trumpet ballad feature with highly textured voicings and an interesting harmonic structure. Nice solo chorus for piano. Written in honor of the great Howard Rumsey, the former lead...

Straight 8th 5/4 Meter / Tempo: quarter= 132 / /Scored for: 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 saxes (doubling flutes and clarinets), alternate parts provided with no doublings, guitar, piano, bass, drums.Thi...

Medium tempo Thad-inspired contrafact on Stella by Starlight changes. Features 2nd trombone playing melody in tandem with tenors and improvised solo chorus. Second solo is optional; can be piano or gu...