This beautiful ballad is featured on Pat's newest recording Secret Story, and has been scored to highlight solo statements by flugelhorn, guitar or alto saxophone (your choice). It is a warm, pensive...
A BEST SELLER!!! Metheny's tunes and rhythmic feels are perfect for Big-Band settings. This tune just ROARS!! It can feature up to 3 soloists, has great changes and exciting ensemble writing... which...
Quincy Jones wrote some incredible arrangements on very popular tunes for the Count Basie Orchestra. As recorded on Hits of the 50's & 60's - This Time By Basie, Quincy's arrangement of I Left My Hear...
Bob Curnow does his usual stellar job of arranging Pat Metheny's very popular tune 'James,' and he manages to add a lot of his own ideas to the arrangement. Soloists can be determined as you wish with...
As originally recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) Kansas City Suite - the Music of Benny Carter, this is a beautiful ballad, written to feature trombone throughout. The middle sectio...
The LP The First Circle contains some of the most exciting contemporary music ever created. This chart has been acclaimed as one of the best big band arrangements ever done! The piece is rhythmically...
As arranged by Quincy Jones for the album Birth of a Band, this Sonny Stitt tune is a brilliant, straight-ahead chart that swings like crazy, featuring Q's outstanding ensemble writing. It also featur...
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...
A great arrangement of the great tune written by the ex-Beatle. This chart was the reason for the great success of the CD 7.5 on the Richter Scale. Melody stated by alto, trumpet and trombone and the...
This arrangement was commissioned by New Trier High School and written as a tribute to Jim Warrick on his retirement. It is a flat-out rock chart that sizzles from top to bottom. The piece was origina...
Pat Metheny is known for his beautiful melodies, and Back In Time is no exception. Featuring the flugelhorn throughout (the solo is written out with chords included for improvisation), this arrangemen...
This piece is the essence of the clever, unusual, unforgettable kind of tune that Pat and the Group come up with. It is full of happy thoughts, and it moves from a march-like rock feel to a joyous wal...
Bob Curnow continues to add to his prolific arrangements of the music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays with one of their more popular tunes, 'Phase Dance.' Set in a genre all their own, this Latin/Fusion st...
It's hard to believe, but this quintessential big band arrangement is finally in print!!! As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on their album Hits of the 50's & 60's - This Time By Basie, Quincy J...
As recorded on the brilliant CD The Legend by the Count Basie Orchestra, this medium swing piece features solos for trumpet, trombone, piano and bass. It is set at a moderate tempo and is one of Benny...
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 ballad is almost spiritual in its effect!! A trombone feature, the melody soars throughout. Your lead bone player will love playing this piece, as it lays perfectly on the horn. As recorded on Bo...
James Miley brings us an original, fresh and fun-to-play composition titled Swing State. With bop-ish lines over a swing feel (with a funky back-beat), this chart brings new life to an eager rhythm se...
This is Lyle at his wildest!! A funk/rock, quirky tune that just burns with energy and excitement! Listen to the Curnow Big Band CD. Features tenor sax and lots of out sounds. Great fun! (8 brass w/op...
Bob Curnow has a way of picking out the Metheny tunes that work so well in a big band setting. This chart is based on a bright, happy tune of Pat's. The medium tempo and contemporary feel make this a...
Bob Curnow continues to add to his catalog of arrangements of Metheny & Mays compositions. Metheny & Mays have given us a great upbeat rock tune with a beautiful melody! This chart will challenge and...
Radiohead is an English alternative rock band. They were ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's list of the greatest artists of all time. James Miley's wonderful arrangement of one of Radiohead's most popular...
'Bodysnatchers' was released in 2007 on Radiohead's In Rainbows album. Fred Sturm's powerful arrangement captures the raw passion of Radiohead's version with unique harmonic variations, textural manip...
Radiohead released '2+2=5' on their sixth album Hail to the Thief in 2003. Florian Ross' dazzling big band arrangement will put your band's dramatic range to the test! Players must be able to whisper...
Radiohead released 'Paranoid Android' as a single in April 1997 and as a track on their studio album OK Computer the same year. Ken Schaphorst's epic big band arrangement is accessible for high school...
There, There' (subtitled 'The Boney King of Nowhere) was recorded on Radiohead's 2003 album Hail to the Thief. James Miley's sublime and highly accessible arrangement re-imagines the melodic, harmonic...
Dan Cavanagh's arrangement of 'Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box' is a powerful big band techno-rock chart that your audience will love as much as your band will. It features a constantly drivin...
This great piece could easily be a theme song for the next cops and robbers TV show! A wonderful, contemporary fusion piece in 3/4, Patty Darling's composition focuses a fair amount on the piano. Ther...
Omar Thomas has written a stunning, contemporary piece reminiscent of the style of the Pat Metheny Group. It has a straight-eighths feel with solos for piano and trombone. This chart requires soprano...
An exciting, contemporary rock / fusion piece which has been played on national television and by All-State jazz bands in Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia, and Alabama. Solo space for Tpt. and/or Tenor. (10...
This is an easy, medium-rock chart, accessible by any middle school band. Patty Darling has written a very cute and playable piece. The improvised section has the blues scale included for solo referen...
This arrangement continues the Radiohead Jazz Project and adds another wonderful talent to the list of outstanding RJP writers. Omar Thomas has arranged this emotional heavy-rock ballad, focusing on t...
Another amazing, exciting chart has been added to the Pat Metheny Series! Bob Curnow's arrangement of Metheny/Mays' composition Stranger In Town hits you in the face right from the start and ends in t...
Patty Darling takes us on a Latin Rock pilgrimage in 3/4 time with the occasional 4/4 and 5/4 meters in this exciting new composition that was commissioned by Lawrence University for the Fred Sturm Ja...
Dan has created a wonderful Rock Ballad, with a nifty, repeating vamp figure, that can be played by even the most inexperienced players. He has managed to do this without compromising the music. The c...
As written for and performed by the Buddy Rich Big Band, here is the long-missing chart that Holman wrote to feature Buddy on Drums and Pat LaBarbera on Tenor Sax. What a great chart! It is set in a q...
This is one of the most original big band rock/fusion charts ever written. The Buddy Rich Big Band recorded this as a Closer on the CD Buddy and Soul. Tenor solo and lots of exciting counterpoint. Red...
Here is a wonderful vocal chart by Lennie on this unforgettable standard. The setting is a ballad, with a rubato section in the middle. Jean Turner performed this for years with the Stan Kenton Band....
Metheny's ballads are beautiful and haunting. This melody is the title track from the GRAMMY AWARD winning recording. The featured solo is for piano and guitar. The entire piece is written out; no imp...
This is one of Pat's most haunting, pensive and beautiful ballads. It features a written piano solo throughout. Warm brass sounds (opt. flugels) and lush harmonies give this piece a very special textu...
Bob Curnow has written some marvelous arrangements of Metheny/Mays music in the past, and this chart will surely tug at your heartstrings. This is a gorgeous melody, with a solid, contemporary feel to...
Here is another wonderful Bob Curnow arrangement of Metheny/Mays music. It is in the style of Earth, Wind & Fire and is a lovely, emotional ballad that is sure to thrill your band and audiences. The f...
As originally recorded by the great Charlie Mariano with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, this is a must-have solo feature for alto saxophone. Let your alto player (or trumpet ...... parts provided for eith...
This is a gorgeous ballad arranged by Willie Maiden for the great Maynard Ferguson Orchestra and is included in The Complete Roulette Recordings' (Mosaic). There is wonderful ensemble writing that is...
This arrangement of I Hope In Time a Change Will Come came about through a desire to hear/play more than one chorus of this stunningly beautiful melody by Oliver Nelson. The basis for this new arrange...
This beautiful arrangement of the lovely popular Michel Legrand ballad was originally scored for the Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen. It is an alto saxophone feature throughout. The entire solo...
This arrangement by Oliver Nelson is a gorgeous alto saxophone feature of Cole Porter's I Worship You. The alto player can either perform the solo part (completely written out) as originally played an...
This is a beautiful, lush, straight-eighth ballad on the popular Cole Porter tune Easy To Love. Arranged by Lennie Niehaus, this short (and quite dancable) chart exemplifies the Kenton-esque warm and...