Partitions difficile de Swing

Fast challenging swinger, fun to play ensembles. Scored for five saxes, four trumpets, three trombones and rhythm and can be performed with smaller band with four saxes, three trumpets, two trombones...

Written for, and performed by the Yamaha Virtual Big Band with Steve Gadd & Tom Scott. Up tempo musical swinger with a classic 60's big band sound. Scored for five saxes, four trumpets, three trombone...

Written for, and performed by the Yamaha Virtual Big Band with Steve Gadd & Tom Scott. As the name implies this is a groovinO shuffle. Good hard swinginO ensembles. Scored for five saxes, four trumpet...

Medium fast swinger with great sax soli. Scored for five saxes, four trumpets, three trombones and rhythm and can be performed with smaller band with four saxes, three trumpets, two trombones and rhyt...

This swinging med. blues with it's unusual voicing and surprising ensemble sections avoids sounding like 'just another blues chart'. Bb, bass & contrabass, clarinets, flute dbls. Solos for Tenor. Trpt...

Medium swing chart. Solo space for piano. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Funupsmanship.

Swinger featuring some of the finest ens writing for big band. Some sax dbls.

Swing chart featuring trpt & tenor on the initial melody. Sax soli. Some sax dbls.

A bright blues with a bridge in a swing feel. The solos are by baritone (6) and trumpet. Lead trumpet to high Eb. Half note = 120. The piece is lonog but great for concerts. Recorded by Bob Florence &...

Three part suite ideal for featuring all of your soloists. Part l is swing ensemble, introducing each section. Part ll, a medium blues, varying backgrounds, ending in a drum solo. Part lll is a mirror...

This is straight down the middle basic jazz swing, at a comfortable middle tempo wailing groove (120). Lots of ensemble, shout choruses, loud and soft. Written in a basic Thad Jones style, the beginni...

The third movement of the Trump Card Suite is sub-titled 'Davey,' and is a pretty ethereal, but at the same time expressive, melody over light orchestral-type underpinnings and harmonic pedals. There...

This swinger starts with trombone melody and rhythm. An ensemble chorus leads to solo space, then an optional sax soli. A soft shout chorus builds to a loud one, which precedes a recap of the main the...

This up-tempo swinger starts with a upwardly cascading fourths in the saxophone followed by mixed timbre ensemble passages playing snippets of melodic content. After a brief half-time section, and whe...

Swinging feature for Trpt [or Soprano] & Sax section. Funky, left handed disjunct line. Fat T-Bones. Lots of 7+9 chords. You need an excellent sax section to do this. Worth rehearsal time. Limited dbl...

Medium tempo. straight eights in 3/4. Woodwind doubles (clarinet/bass clarinet). One of Dan's most popular (and most performed) pieces! Starting off with pedal point C in the bass, this lush piece dev...

Moderately up-tempo 5/4 swing (180-190 bpm) with rock section. John says'The key is getting the rhythm section to feel 5/4 swing so it's not just 3+2. Billy Kilson, drummer for Dave Holland, is an exc...

5 sax, 4 tpt., 4 tbn., guitar piano, bass, drums. Medium tempo swing feel. Tempo: mm=110. Tpt range: high F#, tbn high Bb. This multi-faceted composition makes for a great swing groove, suggesting 12/...

Great swing chart. Front line baritone sax & flute unison with nice ensemble writing. Dbls.

Swing chart featuring trombone solo.

Medium swing chart featuring trumpet & tenor solos.

Medium swing chart featuring trumpet and bass solos on this Lionel Hampton-Ruby Fisher chart.

Medium swing chart featuring trumpet solo.

Medium tempo, contemporary sounding original featuring lead tenor throughout. Alternates between broken swing and straight 8th note sections. Overall the chart relies on the (advanced) soloist however...

This is a wonderful medium up swing minor blues composition which employs a few interesting metric modulations ( i.e. tempo changes). The sax soli is very interesting, the solo changes are straight fo...