Partitions difficile pour Big Band

Bill Potts composed this burnin' swing chart for the Buddy Rich Big Band and it cooks! It was recorded on the album, 'The New One' by the Buddy Rich Big Band. It kicks off with an open rhythm section...

As recorded on 'Count Basie Picks the Winners,' this wonderful Billy Byers chart takes this lovely standard into a whole new world. There is a bit of flute to be played by your 1st Tenor, there is a t...

Once again Billy Byers has created the quintessential, original chart for the Count Basie Orchestra. This one is recorded on 'Basie Land.' The easy swing feel/tempo makes this piece very accessible fo...

Gene Roland wrote for the Stan Kenton Orchestra for almost the entire history of the Kenton Band. He wrote the entire 'Adventure in Blues' album for that band, and this is just one of many highly orig...

Gene Roland wrote for the Stan Kenton Orchestra for almost the entire history of the Kenton Band. He wrote the entire 'Adventure in Blues' album for that band, and this is just one of many highly orig...

This Curnow original was inspired by the fact that there aren't a lot of bass features available for up-and-coming bassists. The tempo is set at about 100, and the chart opens up with your bass player...

Bob Curnow dedicates this to his new grandson Eli whose middle name is Wolfgang. So, he had to have his own tune, right? Based on a medium slow, swinging feel, this chart moves quickly into a Basie-is...

This is one of the most popular charts on the 'Jazz Compositions of Dee Barton' recording by the Stan Kenton Orchestra. This is the original arrangement as recorded by Kenton. There is an edited versi...

This is one of the most popular charts on the 'Jazz Compositions of Dee Barton' recording by the Stan Kenton Orchestra. This is an edited version arranged for standard big band instrumentation (works...

An up-tempo be-bop type chart, with the clever, interesting writing we have come to expect from Les Hooper. (condensed score)

This an absolutely amazing chart, demanding and exciting beyond belief! The chart is extensive in length and packed full of the great writing for which Bill is known. 5-4-4-4

Scintillating big band music at its best!! Holman does it again! Lots of blowing space for trombone and baritone sax, and a romp-stompin' trip through Holman's present-day ideas about the modern big b...

Bill's wonderful melodic ideas find a home in a humorous setting featuring swinging tenor sax and trombone solos. Wonderful shout choruses. Fascinating twists and turns, as always in a hard-swinging t...

A kind of quirky approach in a medium groove. Unusual harmonic schemes create a fresh and exciting feature. This swings like CRAZY! The band really has the chance to be creative.(4 soprano saxes) Incl...

WOW! A sensational Dee Barton chart. A very hip, melodic, medium-tempo swinger, with solo space for trumpet. One of America's great jazz composers created a long-awaited chart that will challenge your...

This chart is recorded on the sensational CD titled Passages by the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra. It is a magnificent scoring of the Gershwin classic, a chart for which people have been clamori...

This chart is from the I REMEMBER BILL - a tribute to Bill Evans CD arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky! All of these incredible pieces require a mature band, soloists and woodwind doublers. Althoug...

Here is another chart written for Stan Kenton (in the mid-1950's), that was never recorded by the band. It is a sensational piece, a real flag-waver which features alto saxophone from top to bottom. G...

This is the first movement of the three-part suite titled 'The Big Street' which was recorded on the album 'The Fabulous Bill Holman' in 1957. Set in a medium-up Swing tempo/Feel, this piece is a wond...

This is the third movement of the three-part suite titled 'The Big Street' which was recorded on the album 'The Fabulous Bill Holman' in 1957. This is a Fast Swing, with solo space for 2 Tenor Saxes a...

Boy, you talk about a wonderful Trombone Feature .... this is IT ! It has been recorded by trombonists Jiggs Whigham and Andy Martin, and will certainly go down as one of the best Trombone features ev...

This amazing work was commissioned by the I.A.J.E, ASCAP and the Dizzy Gillespie Commissions and was premiered at the IAJE Conference in New York City. It is a piece approximately 12 minutes in length...

This is a bright, up-tempo chart in a contemporary framework. Solos for tenor and trumpet lead to a powerful, swinging shout chorus. A 16-bar drum solo leads into a repeat of the shout before returnin...

This chart is from the I REMEMBER BILL - a tribute to Bill Evans CD arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky! All of these incredible pieces require a mature band, soloists and woodwind doublers. Althoug...

Shades opens with a drum solo (brushes on snare) in a medium tempo and swings on from there. There is a trombone, alto saxophone and piano solo in this first movement. There are also drum solos which...