Big Band pour les professionnels

For those of you who just couldn't get enough Moleids, here's the long awaited sequel. This driving hip-hop/ funk composition has little in common w/its sister chart other than a sense of adventure, p...

An original up-beat jazz waltz. Opening statement played by the lead trombone, with ad lib solos for 1st trombone and 1st tenor sax. Flugel section features a build up to the final, exciting shout cho...

A jazz composition by bassist Christian McBride, this is a fantastic melodic and technically challenging string bass feature from his 1994 CD Gettin' It Together. It has become a popular standard for...

A Flag waving opener or closer feturing a jazz baritone solo along with 1st trombone doing both adlib and short written solo. There is an abundance of high driving brass and fast moving unison saxopho...

Med up tempo, long intro movie-score like, featuring trombone solo. Recorded by the Chris Walden Big Band on 'Home Of My Heart'.

Jazz-Rock (Brecker-Bros.-like) features trumpet and guitar solo.

Long contemporary jazz piece (10 min) starts out medium tempo with flugelhorn and tenor sax melody and solos, then a slow jazz waltz featuring flugelhorn and finishing with a fast jazz-samba featuring...

A straight-ahead chromatic-blues piece from the Steve Wiest Big Band Libray. Based on a 12- tone row with underlaying chromatic changes, solos are written for trombone (or treble clef instrument) as w...

Medium-up tempo, straight-ahead chart from the University of North Texas library. Recorded on 'Lab 2008' the piece develops a 'spiraling line' throughout a series of modal changes. Solo sections for t...

Description: Based on the original composition by Brad Leali from his CD Priority Soul, this is a medium tempo shuffle that features alto sax. Arranged for the University of North Texas Three O'Clock...

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.