Big Band pour les professionnels

Alto sax featured. 'Plea' will stretch everyone. It is not extremely difficult. It is four sets of different harmonic, melodic and rhythmic materials with connecting bridges between them and a summary...

A soft, quiet solo feature completely written out for the baritone saxophone. Woodwinds are 4 clarinets and a bass clarinet. From the 'Eternal Licks & Grooves' CD.

Voici la première partie de l'étonnant concerto pour clarinette d'Artie Shaw, écrit par le grand homme lui-même. Après un grand tutti d'ouverture, vient une élégante cadence de clarinette, avec le sou...

Voici la deuxième partie de l'étonnant Concerto pour clarinette d'Artie Shaw. La partition s'ouvre sur quatre cadences élégantes de clarinette, après quoi le batteur accélère le tempo avec un solo de...

Under The Wire is a tour de force written for the master clarinetist Eddie Daniels, and if you've ever heard Eddie play, then you know what you are in for here! The solo clarinet part requires great d...

It's a happy day any day when you have the new Keep Swingin CD just out on the Sea Breeze Jazz label. Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom Kubis. This is a piano feature in a Jazz waltz style (featurin...

A Samba written for Bill Waltrous book. Of course a Trombone feature throughout the chart. Optional Trumpet solo to give the Trombone a rest. Medium fast tempo.

Up-tempo trombone feature in a minor key. This is a difficult chart but if you have a bone section that's good this will be a good one. Starts with a unison head followed immediatly by a bone soli-las...

A beautiful ballad from the Steve Wiest Big Band library. With a chord progression that is a tip-of-the-hat to Coltrane, Brookmeyer, and Thad Jones, solo trombone (or treble instrument) is featured th...

Written originally for Bill Watrous, this shows off the trombone section with an additional featured soloist. The form is a standard Bb blues with a cycle of fifths bridge (ala rhyhtm changes). Trumpe...

Featuring the bone section, this minor up swing tune has a lot of personality. Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom. Saxes are featured in the 'Super Sax' style (but you won't find this on any Super Sa...

Trombone section feature in a Caribbean feel. Solos for all 3 tenor bones. Opt'l steel drum patch for piano. Great, rhythmic unison soli for whole band. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky...

Fast swing, sax section feature. Begins with an open drum solo, in tempo. Lots of fast unison and soli lines for the sax section. Solo changes in both the tenor 1 and bari. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big...

I liked this jazz waltz so much I bought the company! - no wait, thats something else. Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom. I did feature myself on this one thank you. This features the soprano sax al...

Even 8th feel (q note = 92). Originally written for Gary Burton, now features soprano sax. A difficult sax soli follows the solo, then an ever-building ensemble section followed by a return to the mel...

Funk high trumpet feature-Maynardian in concept. This is a great vehicle for the trumpet player with a high 'G'.

This chart was written for a premier at the 2002 Verona Jazz Festival and performed by an All Star Big Band. The chart features a solo transcription of Conte Candoli's great solo on There Is Not Great...

In memory of Maynard Ferguson. There will be a wealth of trumpet features dedicated to MF's memory published this year, so here is mine. It is a piece in two sections based on two different moods asso...

Exciting chart is a bravura Trpt feature based on the chord changes Speak Low. Rhythmic feels, include' son Montuna [mambo], samba & Afro-Cuban 6/8, provides contrast. No w/w dbls. Aux. Perc. Desirabl...

Here's a contemporary screamer written for trumpeter Wayne Bergeron. Features the trumpet section with optional 'up the octave' solo parts. Energetic contemporary rhythms and harmonies give your rhyth...

Voici la version ridiculement rapide et difficile de Runnin' Wild de Glenn Miller. C'est un excellent morceau, mais attention, il est difficile. Notre seule adaptation a été de noter les cuivres pour...

Billy May a écrit de nombreuses partitions de qualité au cours de son illustre carrière, et celle-ci est l'une d'entre elles. Écrit pour le talentueux et souvent sous-estimé Casa Loma Orchestra, cet a...

De temps en temps, il y a une chanson qui vous donne envie de l'écouter et de pleurer de joie. Cette version de Memories of You de Ted Heath est l'une d'entre elles. Une fabuleuse caractéristique pour...

Bb blues shuffle. Lots of full ensemble. Vamp at beginning for guitar or piano solo. Open blues choruses in the middle, followed by a 12-bar canon for the entire ensemble. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big...

Very developed piece, featuring lead alto and bone 1. Alternates between a 12/8 feel and fast samba. Lots of full ensemble writing. Very intense. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky' on Se...