Partitions difficile pour Big Band

This chart is a fast model opus that gives the band and soloists a good workout.

As recorded on John Daversa's 'Live at Catalina's', this is a traditional jazz blues with a bridge containing ample opportunities for improvising. After the melody is stated, there is a raucous seven-...

BookFace captures the oddities of social media networks by utilizing odd meter's and angular lines in a modern funky context. BookFace presents plenty of challenges for any ensemble and is sure to ple...

Gone Till November is a modern open-form big band composition which was written for the University of Nebraska jazz program. Doubles for soprano sax (in the Alto 1 book), Solos include trumpet and sop...

This is a blues with some slightly altered chord changes. It is meant to have a laid-back cool jazz feel as opposed to a Monk-ish bebop style. There is an open solo section for bands that want to jam...

The title means 'Gypsy Song'. It opens with a somewhat somber feel but soon picks up tempo and leads to a trumpet solo. This piece captures the feel of a Flamenco style rumba and ends with the ensembl...

A shuffle written for & premiered by the CSU Fresno Jazz Band. It features solos for Alto & Tenor Sax, a finger twisting soli that features your Bari Sax, Piano & Bass players. Lead Trpt to C#.

A high energy samba the features a lengthy & harmonically-challenging solo for your show-off in the lead Alto chair. Lead Trpt to high F# and it should be noted that the lead Bone needs to feel pretty...

A multi-directional arrangement on the changes to All the Things You Are. Includes Trpt & Piano solos, a Sax soli & an a cappella brass soli, all followed by two massive shout choruses.

Fast samba. After a head that features a lot of band-within-a-band scoring, trpt 4 gets the first solo. Open solo space at the bridge. After a tutti interjection comes the tenor solo which in turn set...

High energy. Straight 8ths. Lots of contrasts in dynamics. Modal changes. Loosely based on melodies from the Irving Berlin classic. Bari sax, Bass Trombone and Electric Bass often linked. Drummer need...

Funk fusion piece which was featured by Buddy Rich on his album 'Big Band machine'. Formerly published. Solo vehicle for soprano sax. Some parts difficult.

Looking for a great closer? This piece has an evocative, atmospheric introductory statement in half time which turns into a blistering jazz-rock-samba show-stopper that roars right on out. Flute dbls...

Evocative & haunting minor melody forms the basis for this suite-length piece which features the trumpet-flugelhorn soloist. Plenty of ensemble work for the whole band. Flute or clarinet dbls for all...

Exciting high-energy jazz-fusion piece w/some challenging lines for the horns & guitar. Solo vehicle for tenor sax & guitar [optional]. Some parts are difficult.

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Malinke's Dance is a funky boogaloo originally recorded live on a CD of the same name by the Marty Ehrlich quartet Traveler's Tales. This arrangement develops material from the live performance into a...

Funhouse was written by Bob Brookmeyer for an extended quartet engagement in 2004 at The Jazz Standard in New York City with Brad Shepik, Drew Gress, and John Hollenbeck. The piece has not been record...

For those of you who just couldn't get enough Moleids, here's the long awaited sequel. This driving hip-hop/ funk composition has little in common w/its sister chart other than a sense of adventure, p...

An original up-beat jazz waltz. Opening statement played by the lead trombone, with ad lib solos for 1st trombone and 1st tenor sax. Flugel section features a build up to the final, exciting shout cho...

A jazz composition by bassist Christian McBride, this is a fantastic melodic and technically challenging string bass feature from his 1994 CD Gettin' It Together. It has become a popular standard for...

A Flag waving opener or closer feturing a jazz baritone solo along with 1st trombone doing both adlib and short written solo. There is an abundance of high driving brass and fast moving unison saxopho...