Noten für Big Bands

Fast samba. Features Tenor sax, Soprano sax & Drums. Recorded by UNLV Jazz Ensemble Caliente, Muy Caliente.

Beethoven never sounded so good. Chart transforms the familiar piano sonata into a beautiful bossa ballad. Piano as featured.

Alternating between Latin & swing in a manner reminiscent of 'Green Dolphin Street', this chart is in the reach of almost any group. It features a strong melody, a Trbn solo [can be Guitar or Piano],...

A burning up tempo Latin chart that will challenge any group. It opens w/a gritty melody that builds up to a Tenor solo. It also features a bass solo, (opt'l tacit), open drum solo, short sax soli, &...

Latin-rock chart opens & closes w/a gospel like treatment of the melody featuring a soloist of your choice. Latin-rock, gospel blues, it's all here. Open solo section for any soloist in the ensemble o...

Beautiful bossa nova w/open solo section. Very pretty changes & great solo vehicle for your soloist.

Here's an exciting Latin chart based on chord changes to 'Love For Sale'. The opening theme is introduced as a bossa nova & the chart moves to a x-time samba feel for the improvised solo. A very excit...

A medium level ballad that goes into a Bossa Nova tempo. This chart features piano as a solo instrument. This beautifully lyrical ballad/Bossa Nova will provide contrast in your programming. Great veh...

Very pretty bossa nova w/lush voicings & interesting changes. Flugel & piano solo.Through ingenious use of cues & big sounding voucings they will 'sound' w/only 3 brass (2 Trpts & 1 bone),3 saxes (Alt...

If you have a deep, abiding love for '70s funk, Bitches Brew-era, Miles Davis, heavy metal, bossa nova, Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, and late '90s aggro-pop, this might just be the tune for you. Thi...

Medium tempo latin with interesting changes and swing on bridge. Alto doubles on soprano. Trpt solo, unis reeds with brass punches in out chorus. 5,4,4,3-4. No doubles.

Medium tempo Latin. Trombone solo with extensive background. Exciting out chorus. 5,4,4,3-4. No doubles.

Saxophonsatz spielt Holz: 3 Flöten, Klarinette, Bassklarinette; 1. und 2. Trompete spielen Flügelhorn

This is a samba/mambo which features both trombone and trumpet solos. A distinctive bolero section offers a refreshing style change for a soprano sax soloist. Instrumentation includes four trumpets,fo...

This work was commissioned to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Wichita Jazz Festival and was conceived as a piece that shifts between bossa nova and tango. Harmonically it mines Chopin's Prelude...

The title and tempo marking 'apocalyptic rhumba' (medium) are reverence to Cuban music--though it is composed more in the spirit of John Coltrane and Elvin Jones rather than traditional guaguanco. The...

Easy to play, but effective bossa nova. Theme is played by flugelhorn and alto.

Haunting bossa nova with solo section for alto saxophone improvisation.

Bright bossa composed by Louie Bellson, as played with his big band. Great feature for the bari sax and guitar, with optional piano solo.

Receives play on several stations. A hot samba inspired by Chick Corea. Piano solo. Recorded by Pat Longo on 'Extreme Heat'.

Written by Gerhard Guter half a year after losing his father, this piece is a celebration of the joy-filled, mostly care free life of Kurt Guter. While a ballad might seem a more conventional dedicati...

Upbeat samba in F minor and major. Features tenor sax and a drum break that can be opened up. Trumpet goes to high D mostly (briefly to an Eb towards the end). 5,4,4,P,B,D, perc optl.