Partitions difficile pour Big Band

Written for 2 very fine Southern California trombone players Mike Fahn & Andy Martin. This is a very fast chart featuring 2 bones with a very cool be-bop type head. If you have 2 good soloists in the...

This is a hard driving samba chart on the difficult side but well worth the effort, very Mangioneish. Features alto sax. Solos for trumpet and alto sax. Key: C minor. Trumpet 1 highest note: high E fl...

Excellent & very difficult jazz waltz. Once again available in the original form. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'The Jazz Album' on Sea Breeze Jazz.

Samba. Soprano & Trpt solos. Another great McConnell chart once again available in the original form.

Up-tempo be-bop chart. Once again available in the original form.

Rock chart. Quarter note = 138. Solos for tenor sax, Soprano sax & trombone. Soprano & Flute dbls. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'The Jazz Album' on Sea Breeze Jazz.

Straight ahead w/solos for Tenor & Soprano. Alto dbl. on Soprano.

Slow four to a Samba feel. Solos for: Flugel, Guitar. Sax dbls.

Starts w rubato intro. This medium tempo chart features Tenor & trombone. Flute dbl. on both Alto 1 & Tenor 2, Alto 2, on Clarinet. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'Our 25th Year'.

Up tempo Blues. Solos for Alto 2 w/open solo section. Great sax soli. Sax dbls. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'Our 25th Year'.

Five clarinet feature. Slow blues tune. ABC format. Some flute dbl. on 2nd Tenor. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'Even Canadians Get the Blues'.

Very fast chart featuring Trumpet & Tenor. AABC format. Alto 1 dbl. on Soprano. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'Even Canadians Get the Blues'.

Extended two movement work based on the sound of the Blue whale and the 'songs' of the Humpback whale. The work features interesting angular melodies in rich harmonic settings. 1st movement, like the...

A 'burning' up-tempo chart (dedicated to Horace Silver) that alternates between heavy funk and hard bop. Features tenor and trumpet. No doubles.

An up-tempo piece with a light character for a big band chart. It has a fast harmonic rhythm (like Giant Steps) with solos for alto and Harmon muted trumpet. Recorded by Dave Eshelmans' Jazz Garden Bi...

A samba in tribute to Chick Corea with a 'Corean' treatment of the rhythm section. Solos: Flute and Flugelhorn. Recorded by Dave Eshelmans' Jazz Garden Big Band 'Deep Voices' on Sea Breeze Jazz.

This chart was commissioned to commemorate the work of tenor giant Stan Getz. The chart features a solo tenor sax which can be performed in a traditional five piece sax section or by an added tenor so...

Although this is a 12 bar blues, each chorus begins in Bb and ends in F. Chart features several 'Basieisms'. Solos for alto and trumpet.

The piece is a musical metaphore for the life journey of a central american woman. It begins with a single flute. A harmonized trio of flute, guitar and bass clarinet follows, performing written caden...

Commissioned by the Ultraphonic Jazz Orchestra, this fusion samba grabs you from the introduction and never lets go! Written in the style of the Brecker Brothers, the chart features extended solo spac...

12/8 funk featuring trombones. Exciting contrapuntal shout.

Tune based on Honeysuckle Rose. Trio of Trpt, tenor and Trombone

Authentic salsa groove. Unusual montuno played by the brass section.

Features alto sax and flugelhorn, Nice, east feeling funk shuffle.

Composed for the 2000 MidWest Clinic, and in tribute to pioneering jazz educator, J. Richard Dunscomb, 'For JR' is alternatively beautiful and exciting. The style is straight eighth, with a warm main...