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A medium swing tempo rouser, this chart features baritone sax. With a one-measure pick-up break at the end of the intro, the 'big E-flat' states the melody of this B-flat blues, then takes off on its...

This arrangement is part of Frank Foster's Vintage Basie Series, compositions performed and/or recorded by Count Basie and his world famous New Testament orchestra between 1953 and 1960. It's another...

Your big band has just shaken the earth off its foundation with one of your monster flag wavers, now you'd like to cool things down with a somewhat relaxed swinger. Try Katherine The Great. She's also...

The fourth movement of the Count Basie Remembrance Suite, is a medium tempotune whose main purpose is to swing HARD! No tiptoeing through the tulips on this one, please! Although it starts off fairly...

A nice groovy medium tempo piece that swings right along, with solos for 2nd alto sax and 4th trumpet. Based on 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes, the arrangement contains a few 'boppish' licks in the melo...

A 16-bar blues that's just a little too happy to really be bluesy, 'Strut' lopes along with a medium up-tempo swinging motion with several 'two-five' progressions in its harmonic framework. solos by t...

This up-tempo swinger is dedicated to one of Chicago;s finest and one of the world's most fiery tenor saxophonists, Johnny Griffin. The challenging melody, based mostly on 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes...

Written for and featuring acclaimed guitarist George Benson with the Count Basie Orchestra, 'Ready Now' takes us on a swinging mildly up-tempo (but not too up) excursion through some slightly challeng...

A great swinger. A tribute to Basie. Once again available in the original form. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'The Jazz Album' on Sea Breeze Jazz.

A comfortable swing chart w/solos for Soprano & Piano. Alto dbl. on Soprano. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'Brass Is Back'.

Medium fast swing. Solos for Guitar, Tenor sax and Piano.

Up tempo swinger. Features solo Trbn as performed by Alex Iies w/the Fullerton Jazz Workshop. No Dbls. Recorded by the No. Arizona University Jazz Orchestra.

Up tempo swing shuffle that transforms into a half time funk shuffle for the middle part of the chart a/then back to swing again or the shout chorus. A bass/piano/bari hook recurs throughout the chart...

A medium -up swing chart that opens w/a mp unison muted Trpt line supported by a unison muted Trbn a/Bass counterline. After a grand pause comes a fortissimo shout chorus that strikes from out of nowh...

Swinging chart based on changes of 'All The Things Yon Are'. Open solo for anyone in the band. Short 'quotes' of famous jazz tunes throughout.

This fairly aggressive swing chart features 2nd trumpet and 1st tenor saxophone. The range for lead trumpet is written high D. The solo trumpet part also goes to written high D. There are options for...

A hard driving straight ahead swinging chart. Great ensemble work and lots of room for solos. Trumpet is only scored up to high D making the chart playable by any high school or college jazz ensemble....

Composed in memory of the Academy Awards. This chart is a medium tempo swinging blues that features the sections individually several times & spots for the entire ens. Solos for Bone, Tenor, Trpt, Pia...

Expandable Chart. They work with any size group from 9 piece to a full band. A medium up-tempo swinger w/challenging figures. Solo for Piano & Trpt.

This could be 'Two Views of the Blues'. It combines two styles of 'blues', starting w/a 'straight 8ths funk' section. Then going on to a dbl. time 'swing' section. This pattern repeats during the solo...

Fast swing with a repeating 5-bar cut-time ostinato in the bass and a mildly demented call and response melody in the trumpets and saxes. This is a great high-energy festival chart with plenty of solo...

Another treatment of a Ron Miles tune written for his Central Coast Jazz Festival appearance in 2003. This chart begins with an intensely chromatic contrapuntal layering effect that builds to a frenzy...

A colorful, multi-faceted composition commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival for the 2006 Next Generation Festival sight reading competition, this medium-up swing chart features unusual phrase len...

Blues with modified changes using unis. Trombones stating melody. Alto and trbn solos with ensemble lead ins. Swinging out chorus. 5,4,4,3-4. No doubles.