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Les grandes partitions ont souvent besoin d'être éditées pour conserver leur fraîcheur et leur pertinence. Nous avons mis cette partition classique dans Finale, nous l'avons réduite à 8 cuivres et nou...

Enregistré par Charlie Barnet et son excellent groupe, "Bali Bali Buck Dance" est une composition et un arrangement merveilleux et passionnant de Bill Holman. Ce morceau s'ouvre sur une ligne énergiqu...

This is the original Billy Byers arrangement made famous by the Basie Band as recorded on the 'Pop Goes the Basie' album! Up front is a conducted trombone solo followed by everything we love about Bas...

Bill Holman's Big Bands have always been exciting and fresh, primarily due to his writing. This chart, on one of our best known standards, doesn't fail. It has limited brass ranges, but roars through...

A medium tempo, very interesting setting for this well-known standard. Lots of unison lines and superb counterpoint make this a masterful chart. You will NOT be disappointed in this one, or any of Hol...

The great Strayhorn tune set in a wonderfully playable chart with Holman's unique, clever approach. There are no unreasonable ranges in this piece, and there is solo space for alto, tenor and trombone...

Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. A superb piece which moves beautifully from a contemporary straight 8th feel to double-time swing and back again. Absolutely the best you...

Sonny Rollins and Bill Holman. What a collaboration this is! A great Rollins jazz standard set for big band by the master. Lots of solo spaces and terrific hard-swinging ensemble sections. Your band a...

There have been a lot of published charts on this tune, but this is the original version as played by and recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra. This chart should be in every jazz band library! Wonder...

This is the real thing, as written for and recorded by the Buddy Rich Band on the Big Swing Face CD. It is a medium-up swing chart that provides plenty of solo space for alto sax (al la Ernie Watts),...

As originally recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) Kansas City Suite - the Music of Benny Carter, this is a medium slow Swing with more than a tinge of Gospel flavor. The trombone sec...

As recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) The Legend, Benny Carter has created a marvelous, quiet, smoky sounding tune ... somewhat in the vain of Whisper Not. This is a wonderful piece...

As recorded by the Bill Holman Band on In A Jazz Orbit, here is his chart on the wonderful Gershwin melody. It is set at a bright, swinging tempo, and it contains solo space for tenor sax, trumpet, tr...

This chart is the exact, original one that Oliver Nelson wrote for his terrific L.A. band on the recording Live From Los Angeles. This was taken directly from his score. A wonderful, laid-back chart!...

This, of course, is Oliver Nelson's best known jazz standard. Here is his OWN fantastic arrangement for big band as recorded on a 1969 LP titled A Dream Deferred (on the Flying Dutchman label). Alto s...

The Maynard Ferguson Band recorded this on their Come Blow Your Horn LP. The chart is an excellent example of Abene's very musical approach to this great Benny Golson jazz standard. Very reasonable ra...

A fun-filled, exciting chart on the old tune. Commissioned as a surprise birthday present for Stan. Trumpet and Trombone solos, and a very clever Holmanesque treatment. Every jazz library should have...

Lennie wrote a magnificent dance book for Stan in the early '60's. This chart was from that period, and it is a full blown jazz chart that really cooks! It has been edited so that it can be played by...

This is another of the many wonderful charts arranged by Lennie for the Stan Kenton Orchestra. He is able to capture the Kenton sound without a lot of high-range problems or difficult concerns for the...

Ce grand classique du jazz reçoit un nouvel arrangement de Roy Phillippe. Il est différent de l'arrangement original de Benny Goodman, swingue bien et donne à l'arrangement un nouveau son des années 1...

Includes solo clarinet part, but no baritone saxophone.

This one truly is wonderful! The band moves along at a nice tempo giving the vocalist plenty of support throughout. Tenor sax and trumpet both solo after the first chorus and then bring the vocalist b...

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No description needed. One of the all time greatest charts recorded by the Buddy Rich Big Band on Burning for Buddy Vol 2. See master Otter CD catalog.

The flutes state the melody in this pretty bossa nova, which demands your best soloist to elegantly negotiate it's appealing chord changes. Sax doubles. As recorded by the Gordon Goodwin Big Phat on '...