Partitions difficile pour Big Band

his is a great chart with several different sections in a hard bop feel, a funk groove and a funk/swing feel. There is a funk tenor solo section and a cookin' swing (hard bop) trumpet solo section, wi...

Denise is a great sounding ballad dedicated to my beautiful wife Denise. It is a flugel horn feature. It switches back and forth from ballad feels, doble time half time feels, to swing feels throughou...

Basically Long John is an exciting medium swing guitar feature based on G blues. What did you expect, E blues? Dave wrote this chart spcifically for his good friend, John Sterling, a great all round g...

Challenging 5/4 medium tempo, blues inspired swinger. Tenor & Trumpet solos and tricky ensemble choruses. Recorded by The New England Jazz Ensemble on Sea Breeze Jazz.

An exciting swinging flag waver with challenging sax statements, splashes of odd rhythms and funk beats, sax and brass solo sections and an extremely powrful shout chorus. Recorded by The New England...

A slow swinger at MM = 110 that features the 1st trombone, a piano with 2 choruses each and an interlude in between where upon the ensemble settles into a swingin building groove until the end.

A big production arrangement featuring sax, trpt, and trbn solis - no solos. Trbn soli is one and 3/4's choruses going up to high D on the lead part. It has a reoccuring interlude using straight 8th p...

A very slow swing caling for precision in execution. Features a jazz flute solo on the lead alto part. Tempo doubles in the middle and then back to tempo 1 for the last chorus.

This chart cooks from beginning to end with plenty of opportunity for soloists (either reading or improvising) to swing.

Vortex is a medium swing composition for jazz ensemble, and is designed for the advanced jazz ensemble. It is intended to have a loose, ECM-like rhythm section feel. The chord progression is tricky fo...

A modal composition in a fast swing feel. This piece was selected Winner of the 2007 Sammy Nestico Award for new jazz composition. The work tansforms during its course from a linear texture toward ver...

Commissioned by the Grand Rapids Jazz Orch (Michigan), this is an uptempo swinging chart that features drums, with trombone and piano solos. Through-composed yet very accessible and relatively simple...

This is the title track from the album released by the Los Angeles Jazz Workshop on AM-PM records. As the title suggests, this is a medium swing tempo in the style of Basie. Nice a capella trombone so...

Written in tribute to the legendary Sammy Nestico, this medium swinger is in a Basie vein. The catchy melody, modulating shout chorus and several musical references to Nestico have made this chart a h...

Up-tempo, brisk contemporary swing at soft dynamic level. Minor mood throughout. Inventive orchestration. Solos in tenor and trombone. Excellent contrast piece. On Valley Jazz Orchestra CD Free Food?...

Up-tempo 40's swing featuring guitar melody and solo (Brian-Setzer-like).

Up-tempo 40's swing in minor featuring guitar solo (Brian-Setzer-like).

Yes, the pun is intended!!! A straight-ahead swing chart based on Gershwin's classic Embraceable You. Features a conversation between drums and unison band, a swinginO shout chorus, and solos for trum...

Medium swing with tenor and trumpet solos on tricky changes and sax soli with soprano lead. 5,4,3 (with opt 4th bone) and 3. As recorded by the New England Jazz Ensemble on Sea Breeze Jazz. See master...

This is a hard swinging bluesy chart that has shades of the great Bill Holman. Over a catchy bass riff the melody gets passed around during the head, and there is plenty of contrapuntal writing to fol...

A medium-difficult jazz ballad for big band utilizing post-bop chird changes. The composition goes into a medium swing feel (mm=120) for a full chorus trumpet solo feature and half-chorus sax soli. Le...

This medium swing arrangement by Rob McConnell was recorded in 1996 by the Boss Brass on the 'Even the Canadians Get the Blues' album. Featured are solos for tenor saxophone and guitar. There are no s...

Originally written for the Bill Watrous Big Band, this fast swing chart is loosely based on I Got Rhythm but provides your trombone, paino, soprano, and tenor soloists with more harmonic freedom that...

Easy-going swing chart, inspired by Thad Jones, has a bouncy yet rich sax melody that leads to an interchange between your drummer (on brushes!) and the ensemble. The solo section can be opened up for...

Louie Prima was totally cool. He played these awesome shuffle grooves in his band, and this chart is in tribute to the great sense of fun his music had.The saxes (featuring clarinet lead) pave the way...