Big Band pour les professionnels

Swingin' hard from start to finish, this burner of a chart for proficient groups is a terrific program opener or closer. Featuring effective figures, brilliant orchestration, and a dramatic shout chor...

Bill Holman's Big Bands have always been exciting and fresh, primarily due to his writing. This chart, on one of our best known standards, doesn't fail. It has limited brass ranges, but roars through...

Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. A superb piece which moves beautifully from a contemporary straight 8th feel to double-time swing and back again. Absolutely the best you...

Lennie wrote a magnificent dance book for Stan in the early '60's. This chart was from that period, and it is a full blown jazz chart that really cooks! It has been edited so that it can be played by...

Phil Collins Big Band Instrumental Chart. A newly published mid tempo chart, especially arranged for the Phil Collins Big Band by Harry Kim.

Count Basie recorded this on the wonderful CD I Told You So. This is a happy, cookin' chart by Holman, with solos for tenor saxophone and piano. It is a guarantee that your band will LOVE playing this...

Le style décontracté de David Benoit est audible dans cette composition à la Jobim sur son CD de 2006 Full Circle. La version de Mark se caractérise par ses harmonies douces et ses lignes fluides dans...

Le style décontracté de David Benoit est audible dans cette composition à la Jobim sur son CD de 2006 Full Circle. La version de Mark se caractérise par ses harmonies douces et ses lignes fluides dans...

This Cole Porter tune has become a jazz standard because of a great melody and great changes. Now we have a superb big band chart that really cooks! Hooper does not demand a lot of high notes, but the...

This arrangement of a great Peter Erskine tune is a real tour de force for the entire ensemble, and always brings the audience to its feet. It features solo space for trombone, soprano sax, piano (or...

From the movie 1941 this is John Williams' big band era extravaganza from the dance marathon scene. Written in a '40s swing style, this up-tempo burner gives every section a feature spot and is guaran...

Composed by Yoko Kanno for the Japanese anime television series Cowboy Bebop, the tune Tank! has taken on a life of its own. John Wasson's driving Latin funk version was written for his Strata Big Ban...

Radiohead released '2+2=5' on their sixth album Hail to the Thief in 2003. Florian Ross' dazzling big band arrangement will put your band's dramatic range to the test! Players must be able to whisper...

Good old cousin Jeff must have been some funky relative! This Les Hooper original features a moderate tempo and attitude-driven funky 2-beat as it churns through a piano opening, sax melody and brass...

As recorded by Buddy Rich on the album of the same name, this 'fat-back' rock classic begins with a repeated vamp featuring solo guitar and/or piano before a horn trio -- alto, tenor, trumpet -- paves...

Big Band Vocal by Lennon & McCartney, arranged by Cy Payne. Based on the Michael Bublé recording. Vocal range: B-F Trumpet range: D sharp

John Clayton penned this gorgeous ballad treatment for the great Joe Williams. With exquisite reharmonizations and carefully crafted accompaniment figures, the mood starts out mellow then arcs beautif...

Commissioned by the US Army Jazz Ambassadors, this arrangement by Eric Richards shines new light on the beauty and depth of the classic Beatles hit. An up-tempo Brazilian groove gives way to hints of...

A high energy Latin pop groove, this one moves along at a pretty good clip - around 240 BPM. It features a soprano sax lead instead of alto 1 and solo space for all saxes, trumpet 4, and trombones 1 a...

Big Band Vocal With Synth String Version This was a number one hit ballad for singer songwriter Billy Vera, recently featured by Michael Bublé in his album Crazy Love. Cy Payne has faithfully transcri...

This is probably Charles Mingus' best-known composition. Sy Johnson's updated chart is the authentic version as performed by the Mingus Big Band on the CD Blues and Politics.

From the Mingus Big Band CD Live In Time, this is one of the most creative charts in the band's book. Don't be fooled by the apparent normal sounds at the beginning, as this multi-styled production nu...