Big Band pour les professionnels

Challenge your group with this swinger including a samba bridge! Features include solo space for tenor and/or optional trumpet, some great drum fill space, a nice sax soli, and lead trumpet to high D...

Includes five movements: 'Morning Mood,' 'Hall of the Mountain King,' 'Solvejg's Dance,' 'Ase's Death,' and 'Anitra's Dance.' Instrumentation is 5 saxes (clarinet doubles), 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, pi...

Includes five movements: 'Morning Mood,' 'Hall of the Mountain King,' 'Solvejg's Dance,' 'Ase's Death,' and 'Anitra's Dance.' Instrumentation is 5 saxes (clarinet doubles), 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, pi...

Easy chord changes and ensemble parts illustrate how much Ellington can do with simple melodies and chord progressions.

This sophisticated arrangement is a good chance to focus on musical issues since there are no technical challenges.

This strong and moving piece celebrates the Queen of Gospel through short solos over simple backgrounds.

A big ensemble intro leads into the familiar and hip bass and piano lick followed by a melody stated by alto, tenor, trumpet, and trombone. This chart features great section and ensemble parts through...

Yep, it's the tune by Sonny Bono, from Sonny and Cher fame! With a driving shuffle feel, this contemporary and hip treatment of this classic pop-rock tune let's you know you are in for a treat from th...

A few twists and turns added to the original Goodman swing version make this chart a definite crowd (and band) pleaser. The chart features a clarinet part and an alternate alto 1 part in lieu of clari...

Gordon Goodwin gives this easy-to-play holiday chart a jazz waltz treatment. Features include: a soprano sax part (alternate alto 1 part), a 2nd alto part with flute (alternate 2nd alto sax-only) and...

The brilliant composer/arranger Billly Strayhorn created this gorgeous melody and lush arrangement - this is the authentic version by Strayhorn himself. Recorded by Duke Ellington, the suggested tempo...

A burnin' jazz classic with a funk groove. If you have played Eric Richards' charts, you know they are meaty but worth the work. The tempo moves along at 208 BPM and the lead trumpet range is to writt...

As recorded by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band on the CD That's How We Roll, but minus the woodwind doubles, saxes only. Arranged for flexibility, it's a beautiful solo feature for C instruments, alto...

Experience Harlem of the early 1930's with this delightfully swinging and complex early Ellington classic.

Take a stroll through the French Quarter with this hard swinging clarinet feature. Dueling trombones and a brief trumpet solo round out one of Duke's most engaging pieces!

Funky with a very hip piano intro! Little band instrumentation is for tenor, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, guitar, and drums. This chart includes solo space for all.

A medium swing chart at 136 BPM for a smaller band consisting of tenor, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, guitar, and drums. Includes solo space for all.

An Ellington standard re-imagined in this famous 1963 arrangement by Gerald Wilson, including the two chorus tenor duet by Jimmy Hamilton, features each section of the band as well as solos for clarin...

Composed and arranged by Billy Strayhorn! A medium-up swing at 164 BPM, this chart was originally recorded by Duke Ellington. It's been edited and transcribed by Jeff Lindberg to exacting specificatio...

Featured prominently in Ken Burn's Jazz documentary, this 1930's, up-tempo swinger features solos for trumpet and clarinet. The ending requires clarinet doubles for the entire saxophone section with a...

The first movement of Ellington's masterpiece, 'Deep South Suite' from 1946, begins with a slow introduction, followed by a build up to an exciting break for the trumpet section. Riffs and solos aboun...

A beautiful alto saxophone ballad, the tempo is around 72 BPM and the instrumentation is 5 saxes, 1 trumpet, 3 trombones, piano, bass, drums. Edited and adapted in exacting detail.

Warner Bros. Publications is proud to present this important new series, Jazz at Lincoln Center Library. Each selection was selected by the Center's musical director, Wynton Marsalis, for Essentially...

The Second Annual Jazz at Lincoln Center High School Jazz Band Competition. Each transcription is direct from the recordings of the immortal Duke Ellington, and they are not only authentic, they are p...

Warner Bros. Publications is proud to present this important new series, Jazz at Lincoln Center Library. Each selection was selected by the Center's musical director, Wynton Marsalis, for Essentially...