Big Band Noten für Profis

Medium fast swing. Solos for Guitar, Tenor sax and Piano.

Up tempo swinger. Features solo Trbn as performed by Alex Iies w/the Fullerton Jazz Workshop. No Dbls. Recorded by the No. Arizona University Jazz Orchestra.

Up tempo swing shuffle that transforms into a half time funk shuffle for the middle part of the chart a/then back to swing again or the shout chorus. A bass/piano/bari hook recurs throughout the chart...

A medium -up swing chart that opens w/a mp unison muted Trpt line supported by a unison muted Trbn a/Bass counterline. After a grand pause comes a fortissimo shout chorus that strikes from out of nowh...

Swinging chart based on changes of 'All The Things Yon Are'. Open solo for anyone in the band. Short 'quotes' of famous jazz tunes throughout.

This fairly aggressive swing chart features 2nd trumpet and 1st tenor saxophone. The range for lead trumpet is written high D. The solo trumpet part also goes to written high D. There are options for...

A hard driving straight ahead swinging chart. Great ensemble work and lots of room for solos. Trumpet is only scored up to high D making the chart playable by any high school or college jazz ensemble....

Composed in memory of the Academy Awards. This chart is a medium tempo swinging blues that features the sections individually several times & spots for the entire ens. Solos for Bone, Tenor, Trpt, Pia...

Expandable Chart. They work with any size group from 9 piece to a full band. A medium up-tempo swinger w/challenging figures. Solo for Piano & Trpt.

This could be 'Two Views of the Blues'. It combines two styles of 'blues', starting w/a 'straight 8ths funk' section. Then going on to a dbl. time 'swing' section. This pattern repeats during the solo...

Fast swing with a repeating 5-bar cut-time ostinato in the bass and a mildly demented call and response melody in the trumpets and saxes. This is a great high-energy festival chart with plenty of solo...

Another treatment of a Ron Miles tune written for his Central Coast Jazz Festival appearance in 2003. This chart begins with an intensely chromatic contrapuntal layering effect that builds to a frenzy...

A colorful, multi-faceted composition commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival for the 2006 Next Generation Festival sight reading competition, this medium-up swing chart features unusual phrase len...

Blues with modified changes using unis. Trombones stating melody. Alto and trbn solos with ensemble lead ins. Swinging out chorus. 5,4,4,3-4. No doubles.

Medium swing tune with conventional AABA form. Tenor solo with reed, tbn, and ensemble background.

Swinging modified blues. Extensive ensemble chorus' around tenor and trombone solos. No doubles. Medium difficult.

Straight-ahead, hard-swing shuffle with solos for alto and tenor. Soprano lead on extensive sax soli.

As the title suggests, it is a straight ahead swinger from start to finish. There is a unique rhythm section intro (with optional flute) followed by the band's statement of the melody and a large sax...

This is a bright tempo swinger featuring solos for both alto sax and guitar, and a lead trumpet note of written high D. It is very suitable as a festival or concert opener due to its intensity and app...

Flashback is a medium swing bebop tune that features the saxes on a AABA form with the trumpets taking over the B section. The arrangement has 2 sections of improvisation (all parts have the chord cha...

Composed by Steve Reyes. This is a concert jazz piece that features a dramatic opening, leading to the main theme, which is in 5/4. The middle section of the tune, which features alto sax, offers solo...

Hard swingin' medium groove shuffle. Features trombone soli, and open solo section.

Medium swing original by Louie Bellson written to feature Carl Saunders on trumpet, arranged by Albert Alva. Has optional 5th trumpet and vibes parts.

This 'Basie' style medium swinger is a real crowd pleaser. Recorded by Bruce Gates' Jazz Consortium Big Band on 'Forced Air Heat' on Sea Breeze Jazz.