Noten für Big Bands

This chart has a great Killer Joe type groove and a very beautiful melody. There is a great sax soli and a challenging tutti section. This chart is a great first-set closer or opener of a second set....

A jazz composition by bassist Christian McBride, this is a fantastic melodic and technically challenging string bass feature from his 1994 CD Gettin' It Together. It has become a popular standard for...

Bee's Boppin' is an exciting and challenging up tempo (240+=BPM) big band chart based on rhythm changes. Dave originally wrote and dedicated this chart to his lovely wife, Denise, a trombonist who has...

Crackin'is an exciting and challenging medium tempo shuffle (132+=BPM) for big band, based on the jazz blues progression, in B-flat, featuring the jazz organ (a synthesizer that has an organ sound/pat...

A Flag waving opener or closer feturing a jazz baritone solo along with 1st trombone doing both adlib and short written solo. There is an abundance of high driving brass and fast moving unison saxopho...

A jazz vehicle for two tenor saxes at a half note = 88 tempo: (DueilinO). A unique two altos and two tenors in two part harmony only a half step apart: (GrindinO). It all makes sense in a different bu...

A loose feeling 32 bar melody featuring the baritone sax and condutor (trumpet) or 4th trumpet unison. Then a three quarter chorus of jazz ad lib for both and a building OoutO chorus and duet ending.

Alison's Tune is dedicated to Alison Prestwood, outstanding Nashville bassist. Straight ahead and as fast as playable. Medium to medium-difficult depending on the tempo chosen. Lead trumpet range is t...

Medium-up Jazz Waltz. Wonderful melody set over a feel-good C-major pedal point. Excellent opener or closer. Tenor & Flugel have melody and jazz solos. Recorded on the Valley Jazz Orchestra CD Free Fo...

16th note funk groove in 3. Funky, contrapuntal a capella writing for the saxophone section. Jazz solos for trombone and alto saxophone. Described as Mintzer-ish by drummer John Riley. Trpt range: Hig...

A tribute to breadcrumb-and-popcorn-hungry ducks at your local park. Fun calypso in C-minor. Jazz solos in each section. Mouthpiece quacking in the trumpets. Title track of the Valley Jazz Orchestra C...

Some call this the obligatory weird tune. Very slow, exotic 16th-note feel. Drums use mallets. Opt. bass clarinet in the bari sax. Solos from trumpet and trombone. Trpt range: High E-flat.

Slow, long intro without rhythm, movie-score like, flghn solo. Recorded by the Chris Walden Big Band on 'Home Of My Heart'.

Ultra fast intro, then going into half time blues, open for any solo over blues changes. Recorded by the Chris Walden Big Band on 'Home Of My Heart'.

Medium-up tempo. The intro illustrates funnily an argument between husband and wife. Then theme and solos played by flugelhorn and alto sax. Recorded by the Chris Walden Big Band on 'No Bounds'.

Up-tempo be-bop, featuring trombone and trumpet solo.

Medium tempo blues, melody with saxes, featuring alto sax and trumpet solos. Brass solo in between without rhythm.

Medium-up tempo boogie, featuring tenor sax solo.

Jazz-Rock (Brecker-Bros.-like) features trumpet and guitar solo.

Long contemporary jazz piece (10 min) starts out medium tempo with flugelhorn and tenor sax melody and solos, then a slow jazz waltz featuring flugelhorn and finishing with a fast jazz-samba featuring...

A straight-ahead chromatic-blues piece from the Steve Wiest Big Band Libray. Based on a 12- tone row with underlaying chromatic changes, solos are written for trombone (or treble clef instrument) as w...

Medium-up tempo, straight-ahead chart from the University of North Texas library. Recorded on 'Lab 2008' the piece develops a 'spiraling line' throughout a series of modal changes. Solo sections for t...

Description: Based on the original composition by Brad Leali from his CD Priority Soul, this is a medium tempo shuffle that features alto sax. Arranged for the University of North Texas Three O'Clock...

Description: Medium tempo straight ahead guitar feature in the style of Wes Montgomery. Written for the University of North Texas Award-Winning Two O'Clock Lab Band directed by Jay Saunders. Features...

Medium-tempo piece built around the very funky drums-n-bass groove. This ultra-hip groove (also known as breakbeat) grew out of the James Brown- influenced Rave scene and then morphed into a modern ja...