Big Band pour les professionnels

This wonderful chart is recorded on 'Tonight Show Band, Vol. 2' (Amherst). Once again, Holman takes a fresh look at a great standard tune. Although the piccolo, flute and clarinet doubles make this a...

Includes solo clarinet part, but no baritone saxophone.

Up tempo swinger. Feature Mel Lewis & Louie Bellson. Drawn out melody line set stage for some driving rhythm, followed by whole chorus of full ens w/drums playing fills. Drum & Tenor solos. Recorded b...

John La Barbera arranged this Woody Shaw tune for his 2005 album Fantazm, on Jazz Compass records. The chart features solos for trumpet, drums, and tenor saxophone with nice backgrounds.

Blow the cobwebs away with this great up-tempo jazz number with open section for solos, plus plenty of action for the whole band. From the album 'A Hot Night in Paris'.

A Gordon Goodwin vocal chart! In addition to the vocal part, there are solo lead sheets for alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet and trombone. Gordon has conceived this chart with the vocal intertwined into t...

It's funky with all the Big Phat Band attributes, and it's fairly tough to play, but hey, it's Gordon and you know it will be a hot chart...if you have the horses. The opening lick for piano is really...

From the CD Groove Shop recorded by the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, here is John Clayton's stylish take on this masterful Billy Strayhorn composition. The rhythm section sets up the feel followed...

This monster chart from John Clayton was written specifically for his clinic presentation at the IAJE convention where it was rehearsed and premiered in January 2005. After the rhythm section sets the...

Feature the vibes (or piano) with this creatively arranged standard that was written specifically for vibes legend Milt Jackson (heard on this excerpt). The melody is bookended by plaintive statements...

Feature the vibes (or piano) with this creatively arranged standard that was written specifically for vibes legend Milt Jackson (heard on this excerpt). The melody is bookended by plaintive statements...

Tel qu'enregistré par le Count Basie Orchestra, voici l'arrangement classique de Sammy Nestico de ce standard de jazz de Frank Foster ! Comprenant tous les styles de piano caractéristiques, des cuivre...

A Gordon Goodwin vocal chart! In addition to the vocal part, there are solo lead sheets for alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet and trombone. Gordon has conceived this chart with the vocal intertwined into t...

It's funky with all the Big Phat Band attributes, and it's fairly tough to play, but hey, it's Gordon and you know it will be a hot chart...if you have the horses. The opening lick for piano is really...

Tel qu'enregistré par le Count Basie Orchestra, voici l'arrangement classique de Sammy Nestico de ce standard de jazz de Frank Foster ! Comprenant tous les styles de piano caractéristiques, des cuivre...

Feature the vibes (or piano) with this creatively arranged standard that was written specifically for vibes legend Milt Jackson (heard on this excerpt). The melody is bookended by plaintive statements...

Think of it as turbo-charged musical tongue-in-cheek Gordon Goodwin style. Based on the theme from the movie Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, the theme has been developed per Gordon's usual amazing abil...

Recorded on the SWR Big Band CD Fun Time and adapted from the tune Blue Daniel, this chart romps along in "four" instead of "three" and sounds harder than it is. It features a sax chorus and solos by...

Recorded by Count Basie as a feature for two trombones, this updated, advanced-level version for the SWR Big Band CD Fun Time now features four trombones out front and a strong ensemble chorus. Sammy...