Big Band pour les professionnels

Opening with a shuffle vamp with layers of riffs being added as the intensity builds, this powerhouse arrangement from the acclaimed CD I Am Three blossoms into a full-grown flat-out shout!

Adapted as a mambo, Michael Mossman pulls out all the stops on this unique and exciting setting of Clifford Brown's jazz standard. The brass section screams out the melody while the saxes fill in blaz...

Jazz great Thelonious Monk composed so many classic tunes, and this creative powerhouse of a chart includes snippets of sixteen of them! Challenge your audience (and your players) to find them all as...

Here is a sizzling Afro-Cuban version of this Chick Corea classic that is sure to be an impressive addition to any program for mature bands. Perfect as a feature for your pianist, but the flexible sol...

This up-tempo samba on this wonderful Cole Porter standard is a great vehicle for your band-not difficult yet very effective. The melody and solo space (written-out solos) feature alto and trumpet and...

Victor Feldman tune, recorded by Miles Davis on several occasions. The tune lends itself nicely to the big band instrumentation. Harmonically and rhythmically challenging arrangement, with rapid harmo...

Contemporary uptempo jazz. Through-composed. Moderate brass ranges. Recorded by The Eastman Jazz Ensemble on Changes Over Time: The Evolution of Jazz Arranging (Advance Music 11350). Also recorded by...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994. Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchest...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994.Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestr...

Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994.Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestr...

Prism is a modal composition which is based largely on several reharmonizatios of a simple 8-bar melody. It is a jazz waltz and features the lead alto sax. Correlated with Vol. 1 of the Jazz Workshop...

This is the real thing, as written for and recorded by the Buddy Rich Band on the Big Swing Face CD. It is perhaps one of Holman's best known charts ever. A scintillating jazz waltz, full of excitemen...

This driving rock shuffle was featured in the TV programme about the Montreux Festival and although not on the 'A Hot Night in Paris' album, is one of the best arrangements from the Phil Collins libra...

The Doobie Brothers hatten viele Hits, doch 'Long Train Runnin' war der Top Hit der in den 1970er Jahren sehr erfolgreichen Band. Obwohl der Song eher dem Rock-Genre zuzuordnen ist, macht Markus Frits...

Written and recorded by Tower Of Power, this supercharged chart is the ultimate in funk writing for big band! Paul has authentically recreated this famous tune using a tenor sax soloist, the trademark...

Recorded by the Jazz Interactions Orchestra Jazz Big Band Arrangement This arrangement by Oliver Nelson was recorded by the Jazz Interactions Orchestra in 1967, an ensemble led by pianist Billy Taylor...

This beautiful and haunting ballad by John Benson Brooks was superbly crafted into a piano showcase by Gil Evans. This has all of the wonderful elements of Gil's writing for the Thornhill band. All re...

Bob Curnow has taken the brilliant arrangements done for the Stan Kenton Orchestra by Ralph Charmichael and created a medley of fresh, modern versions containing Angels We Have Heard on High, The Holl...

Recorded on the 'The New Sound of Maynard Ferguson and his Orchestra 1964,' this is the original version of the chart (instrumentation 4 saxophones, 4 trumpets, 2 trombones, Piano, Bass and Drums) as...

Recorded on the 'The New Sound of Maynard Ferguson and his Orchestra 1964,' this is an edited version of the chart (instrumentation 5 saxophones, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, Piano, Guitar, Bass and Drums...

La Rumba est l'une des formes les plus emblématiques et les plus contagieuses de la musique afro-cubaine, et cette partition incendiaire fait preuve d'une grande intensité aux deux extrémités d'un ins...

Le jazz des fêtes de Gordon Goodwin. Cette adaptation de "Oh Tannenbaum" est une véritable aventure, offrant un choral, un peu de style Basie et un bebop rapide et furieux de Goodwin. Espace solo pour...

Big band Piece chosen for big band competitions in Europe.

Enregistré sur l'album XXL (CD et DVD Audio) de Silverline Records par Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, ce morceau féroce est un rock-swing-jazz totalement brûlant pour big band. Il fera des ravages à...