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This tune is based on the changes to 'I'm Getting Sentimental Over You' but at a medium swing tempo.

This swingin' minor blues features a unison sax melody and plenty of call & response between brass and saxes. Solo sections can be opened up and it ends with a spot for your drummer.

A real Thad Classic made accessible by Mike Carubia. Higher brass notes removed, sax soli re-scored & it still sounds like Thad.

Remember 'Moanin'? Carl has done a great job with this at the HS, Middle School or Jr. High Level. Blues in F (Playable with a smaller group).

Written in the style of Sammy Nestico and the Count Basie Orchestra this composition captures the feel and excitement of the Basie band with limited brass ranges at a Grade 3 Level. Beginning and end...

Commissioned by Jim Dragovitch, director of the GW Hewlett HS Jazz Ens., this 16 bar tune features a unison melody carried by the trombones & tenors and plenty of Full Ens with short stop time before...

Relaxed cool jazz feel.

That Toddlin' Town Medium Swing Tempo

Medium fast modern swing chart with lots of unison and ensemble passages making this very playable.

Medium groove Basie style written as a Tribute to the great Ernie Wilkins. This one really lays well with solos for Tenor and Trumpet. Includes well written sax soli.

An easy Basie/Nestico style swinger at a Med Fast tempo. Brass ranges are very comfortable with lots of unisons and full ensemble sections.

A medium tempo 'Basie Style' swing tune that really captures the idiom. Written trumpet and tenor sax solos. Andy Farber is our newsest writer who is currently writing for the Lincold Center Orchestra...

From the 1970 Thad Jones 'Consummation' album, this medium tempo 'rhythm' swinger has been re-scored by Mike Carubia capturing the essence of Thad Jones original. A tasty sax soli section and a slight...

This great chart is recorded on the 'Tonight Show Band, Volume II ' CD (Amherst Records). Man, talk about a romp-stompin' chart ...... this one is sensational. John has set this in its classic boogie-...

Count Basie's great tune gets a smashing treatment from the master arranger Tommy Newsom. This great chart is recorded on the Tonight Show Band, Volume II CD (Amherst Records). With solo space for ten...

This is recorded on the Tonight Show Band CD Once More With Feeling (Amherst Records). Tommy does it again with a marvelous chart on this classic Mercer Ellington tune. This medium shuffle features so...

Chicago is a high-energy, big band bebop arrangement on the popular standard that Mike wrote for Maynard Ferguson's band. It is a bright-swing chart that features solos by alto saxophone, piano, drums...

Bob Curnow has taken this great tune of Benny Carter's and scored it very much in the style of the Count Basie Orchestra. The chart is set in a slow swing tempo and is warm and soulful. There is space...

This wonderful, melodic Mercer Ellington tune is beautifully arranged by Tommy Newsom, and it is recorded on the Tonight Show Band CD 'Once More With Feeling' (Amherst Records). This wonderful chart f...

This is a new edition (Finale computer notation) of this feature for the trombone section. It is available with a full score for the first time. It has also been edited to allow for performance by 8 b...

This wonderful Ellington classic is scored by the great Tommy Newsom to feature alto sax throughout. It is recorded on the 'Tonight Show Band, Volume II ' CD (Amherst Records). Brass ranges are very m...

This great chart is recorded on the Tonight Show Band, Volume II CD(Amherst Records). It has a bit of the Basie touch to it, but it is a very original chart by the great John Bambridge. There is space...

This is one of the great 'unrecorded' (or 'missing') solo features written for the Stan Kenton Orchestra. It features trumpet throughout and is loaded with lots of solo space and terrific Holmanesque...

As written for and recorded by the Woody Herman Orchestra (Columbia), here is a great chart fashioned with a nod to Gerry Mulligan's groups. It is a bright, swing chart with solo spaces for tenor sax,...

Ernie Wilkins was one of the most successful contributors to Maynard Ferguson's amazing big band library. This original is an alto saxophone feature set in a slow, swinging tempo, with a really clever...