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Chart based on a 15 beat ostinato pattern, over which different metric schemes are superimposed. There is also a secondary theme in 5/4 time. The rhythmic feel is always straight eights, sometimes get...

Chart begins with a pianoless chorale in 4/4 time, accelerating into a train-like 6/4 samba feel. Three different 4-bar melodic sections are run over a rhythmic vamp, leading into 10-bar secondary sec...

Medium swing feel, and alternates between 6/4 and 4/4 time. The rhythm parts are fully notated on the head, and will challange the best band. The solos are mostly in 6/4 time, and a short written inte...

Chart combines bossa nova and samba feels along with 3/4 and 4/4 meters to make an interesting and harmonically complex composition. Backgrounds are provided behind the soloists. Scored for Trpt, Teno...

Solo flugelhorn. The harmonic structure is fairly complex. AAB Form. Some sax dbls.

To celebrate his move north, Berg has come up with this straight-eight composition featuring an angular line, mixed meters, and a tricky ensemble section. The horns include soprano sax, flugelhorn, an...

Here is a ballad which alternates between 4/4 and a slow swinging 3/4. This composition has heavily notated rhythm parts and complex harmonies and should be an interesting challenge for a top band. Th...

Combines a bright straight 8th feel with a predominantly minor chord structure, a lyrical melody, and a challanging ensemble chorus after the solos. It+s not a traditional blues, but the changes are u...

Dedicated to Lionel Hampton, this straight ahead rhythm changes chart hints at Hamps signature tune Flying Home. Just like Lester Young often referred to everyone as Lady xxx, Hamp called everyone Gat...

This original was composed for the Power of Ten and is featured as the ear opening first track on their CD Earth Tones. The strong chromatic intro makes one wonder where the chart is going, but once t...

Ive always been a fan of Horace Silvers music, consistently brought to life by a band of the finest sidemen whether it was Tom Harrell and Bob Berg or Michael Brecker and his brother Randy. As the tit...

One of my more recent compositions, this one is also available here for full big band. This chart is a tour de force for baritone soloist and was written for the emerging talent Mark Allen who is feat...

This moody soprano sax feature also features your pianist. It is also available as a full big band chart. Recorded by Power of Ten on their CD Earth Tones, it is predominantly a ballad in 3/4 & 9/8, i...

An ideal opener for a concert program. After a fanfare type intro, a straight-ahead driving rock lifts the band into a striking theme. Fiery vamp for the Alto solo, opt;l open for more. Scored for Alt...

For those of you who have a teenager, A.D.I.L.O.T. is for you! A.D.I.L.O.T. (A Day In The Life of Tranae) is a commercial hip-hop tune composed for my daughter Tranae. The tune also contains plenty of...

Based on a constant pedal-point & a regular 2-bar accompanying pattern, this uneven-phrased angular melody line spins out into a open free solo section (on an opt+l D pedal). A short background or int...

Hadi's Feast is dedicated to Seattle trumpeter Hadi Alsaadoon. It is in 5/4 time w/ a straight-eight feel. Scored for: Soprano, Flugel, Trbn, & Rhythm

Here is a ballad with a plaintive melody and rich, dark harmonies. Tenor sax is featured at first, soon to be joined by the Flugelhorn and Bone. Scored for: Tenor, Flugel, Trombone and Rhythm

The mood on this is Latin a la Coltrane/McCoy Tyner/Elvin Jones. It's an extended blues built on 'sus-chords' with a dynamic thematic line. Harmonies on last section built on 4ths. Open solo section i...

This up tempo bebop swing features a horn motif with odd spaces in between. It looks harder than it is, but it sounds hip and natural. The open solo section is over four chords with a break phrase at...

This is the title selection from the Kim Richmond/Clay Jenkins Ensemble CD. The piano pattern establishes the mood of the piece (even-eigths, but not Rock). The unison melody in soft horns (tpt in Har...

Starting with an uneven rhythmic figure vamp intro, the start and stop horn theme is partly octaves, partly built on parallel 4ths, partly 3-part voiced. The rhythm section (especially drums) have ple...

A medium-up tempo romp through the changes of a well-known Christmas song, with some background details behind the solos and a structured drum solo. Medium difficult to difficult, depending on how fas...