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Recorded by The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra on the album Thad Jones Legacy, this blazing chart, meant to be played as fast as possible, opens with a repeating vamp featuring horn players on Latin percussi...

Recorded by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band on the album March Of The Tadpoles, this uptempo solo feature for tenor sax takes no prisoners! Playing with well-articulated, rhythmic precision...

Recorded by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band on the album March Of The Tadpoles, this uptempo solo feature for tenor sax takes no prisoners! Playing with well-articulated, rhythmic precision...

Recorded by Bill Watrous on the Columbia album of the same name, this big band masterpiece features a relentless Latin groove, crisp articulations, and full solo choruses for trumpet, tenor and trombo...

Recorded by Bill Watrous on the Columbia album of the same name, this big band masterpiece features a relentless Latin groove, crisp articulations, and full solo choruses for trumpet, tenor and trombo...

Commissioned by the Gates Chili High School Jazz Ensemble in Rochester (NY), this winning original alternates between a Latin and straight 8th-note feel, and draws from the ascending melodic minor sca...

This 2015 Grammy-nominated arrangement, was recorded by the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra on "Strength In Numbers" (Summit Records). The original Stephen Foster waltz is refitted here as a medium-bri...

This chart for proficient groups utilizes a driving Afro-Cuban 12/8 feel to simulate the power and tension of a full strength hurricane. When you're not experiencing mental images of a raging storm ma...

The title track of the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra's CD (Summit Records DCD 481), this bright samba for proficient groups has an uplifting feel. Filled with dynamic shading and catchy grooves, this...

Commissioned by the Northern Michigan University Jazz Ensemble, this jubilant tone poem portrays the Great Northern Railway that ran for a century from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean. Beginning...

Commissioned by the Northern Michigan University Jazz Ensemble, this jubilant tone poem portrays the Great Northern Railway that ran for a century from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean. Beginning...

Commissioned by the Long Beach (CA) Polytechnic High School Jazz Ensemble, this spicy salsa original for proficient groups will be the highlight of your concert or festival performances. Named after a...

Commissioned by the Long Doug Beach (CA) Polytechnic High School Jazz Ensemble, this spicy salsa original for proficient groups will be the highlight of your concert or festival performances. Named af...

This original for proficient groups is a sure bet for getting your audiences and judges engaged. Effective salsa rhythms are utilized throughout and the brass ranges are moderate. Duration 5:00. Avail...

Featuring a bright salsa groove, this zesty original for proficient groups provides suggested montuno (piano), tumbao (bass) and cascaras (drum) lines to ensure stylistic authenticity. Solo highlights...

Featuring a bright salsa groove, this zesty original for proficient groups provides suggested montuno (piano), tumbao (bass) and cascaras (drum) lines to ensure stylistic authenticity. Solo highlights...

Recorded on the landmark album Basie Straight Ahead, the tempo Sammy has indicated on the score is "Mucho Fasto" which gives you an idea of the flagwaver that is Magic Flea. Another great recording of...

Recorded on the landmark album Basie Straight Ahead, the tempo Sammy has indicated on the score is "Mucho Fasto" which gives you an idea of the flagwaver that is Magic Flea. Another great recording of...

Featured on the SWR Big Band CD Basie-cally Sammy, this medium tempo chart features two trumpet plunger duets, along with solos for trumpet, tenor and optional alto saxophone. Some solid full-ensemble...

Originally written for the Sammy Sammy Nestico "Dark Orchid" recording and later reprised on "A Portrait Of Sammy," this classic swing tune gives all of the solo work to piano -- first in the opening...

Recorded on the Sammy Sammy Nestico CD This Is The Moment, this revised arrangement does not call for flutes, woodwinds, French horns or tuba, though some additional personnel (second keyboard/synthes...

Although this arrangement resembles a ballad, a steady groove must be maintained throughout. At measure 101 the drummer should play tasteful fills between ensemble phrases. The final chorus features a...

Although this arrangement resembles a ballad, a steady groove must be maintained throughout. At measure 101 the drummer should play tasteful fills between ensemble phrases. The final chorus features a...

As recorded by Buddy Rich on his Swingin' New Big Band album (Pacific Jazz), this classic chart features great sax solis, an irresistible ensemble shout, and solos for trombone and tenor. A modulation...

Set in a laidback swing groove, this chart features a sax chorus, some driving ensemble sections, and solos for trombone, tenor sax, trumpet and piano (suggested solos provided for all). Sammy says th...