Partitions difficile pour Big Band

Recorded on the John Fedchock New York Big Band's CD No Nonsense, Blue After Two is a slow blues, with subtle sophisticated harmonies placed over an after-hours roadhouse 12/8 groove. After the subtle...

Here's a burning minor blues that will certainly showcase and challenge any advanced ensemble. This chart provides more than ample solo space, and is a wonderful vehicle to feature your drummer playin...

Here's an up tempo minor blues with a bridge that works great as an opener or closer. Solo opportunities for any instrument are plentiful, and your saxophone section will enjoy working on this smokin'...

A slow Basie-style blues that is dedicated and inspired by the great Sammy Nestico, this chart starts out slow but before you know it you are building your way towards a stomping Basie shout chorus. Y...

This chart is anything but predictable and takes your band and your audience on an exciting ride, from the opening hip hop feel to the pulsating swing. Bluesy in character, this chart is filled with t...

A medium to up tempo shuffle adapted from the original recording, Friday Night at the Cadillac Club is a tenor feature with open solo opportunities for guitar and piano/organ. Guitar can be optional....

1. Italian cooker, 2. beautiful Trombone solo, 3. rousing, swinging driving masterpiece. Solos; Piano, Trbn, & Alto. Dbls. 3 movements; Latin, slow & swing.

This straight eigth note piece is reminiscent of music that has been released on the ECM label. It begins with a rubato section featuring piano and flugel horn and then falls into a loose bossa. The m...

This original tune features a nice up-tempo contemporary groove, a great melody, and plenty of space for a good tenor sax soloist. Trumpet range to high C, no wind doubles, and optional guitar partA,T...

Le 12th Street Rag comme vous ne l'avez jamais imaginé ! Ce morceau a été écrit pour l'orchestre de Ted Heath et va bien au-delà du concept original de Bowman. Il s'ouvre sur une imitation de la circu...

Big, brassy & blustering swing which seems never to stop building. Some dbl.. Goes from swing to 4 bas Dixie feel to swing. Piano & Bari solos. No score.

Up tempo swing. Yup! It's the old standard, its got it all - from an a cappella ens to a Dixieland band & a killer shout section. Solo changes in each sec.

Starts w/ a wacky kinda Dixieland version of this old tune featuring the Alto sax [opt soprano sax], and a plungered trombone w/trpts in harmonies acting as the banjo. The drums pick up the tempo into...

Encompassing several styles of jazz; i.e.: ragtime, Dixieland, bebop, swing, modal afro/Cuban. A challenging chart but well worth the effort. */5/5/5 - Clarinets (2) Bs. Clarinet and tuba are optional...

Part 2 of Red Beans & Ricely Yours (Commissioned in honor of Louis Armstrong by ASCAP and IAJE and premiered by the Jazz Surge at the 2001 IAJE Conference in New York.) This piece tries to unabashedly...

Part 1 of Red Beans & Ricely Yours (Commissioned in honor of Louis Armstrong by ASCAP and IAJE and premiered by the Jazz Surge at the 2001 IAJE Conference in New York.) If you can imagine what blues-t...