Big Band Noten für Profis

As recorded and released by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band as a digital single. An homage to Oscar Peterson, this chart is a solo feature and includes separate solo parts for piano, C instruments, alt...

As recorded by the Big Phat Band, you've got your basic flag-waving, barn-burning, straight-ahead swing chart here - and believe it or not, it's not all that hard to play! Sure, it's a challenge, but...

Latin music should be a part of every band's repertoire. You'll love the fire and rhythmic emphasis of this chart, as well as the harmonic and melodic richness. With half note = 108 BPM, solo space is...

A luscious alto sax ballad at 74 BPM. A lyrical vehicle with rich harmony and textures, soaring ensemble figures, and a soli with saxes (alto 2 opt flute), trumpet 2, guitar, and piano. A brilliant ch...

In Gordon Goodwins einfallsreichen Slow-Funk-Version von 'Little Drummer Boy' liegt die Melodie zu Beginn in der Bassposaune und dem Baritonsaxophon. Ein sehr cooles Goodwin-Arrangement!

A superior chart in every way! Patrick Williams' 'Aurora' is a samba at 120 BPM that features optional horns in F, and full instrumentation with two auxiliary percussion parts. There is plenty of solo...

A tour de force ensemble arrangement! This Patrick Williams chart features a grand intro that has optional woodwind doubles for piccolo, flute, and clarinet, along with the optional horn in F parts. I...

A bright swinger solo feature at 180 BPM, Patrick Williams' 'The Sun Will Shine Today' has standard instrumentation plus optional horn in F parts. It was originally scored for clarinet, but includes s...

At 120BPM, this Patrick Williams swing chart is right on the mark 'There You Go Again' is a first-class composition that will please any experienced band. It features full instrumentation plus optiona...

If you want funky, this is it! In a nutshell, this is Tower of Power meets Gordon Goodwin, simple as that. Solo space provided for alto, tenor, bari, trumpet, trombone, and various rhythm players.

This is the title track chart from Gordon Goodwin's GRAMMY Award-winning 2014 CD Life in the Bubble. This plays at around 96 BPM with swing sixteenths. Solo space is provided for all saxes, trumpet 3,...

A 135 BPM shuffle, Gordon Goodwin's 'Santa Baby' features the melody played by bass trombone! The chart features a sax soli, optional piccolo in alto 2,and the lead trumpet range is up to written high...

Gordon Goodwin's 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day' is played at a medium swing around 120 BPM. The lead trumpet range is up to written high G, there are terrific shout choruses, a few modulations,...

Background of A Tone Parallel to Harlem (AKA The Harlem Suite): Duke Ellington always had a sophisticated air about him. His high-brow comportment was evidenced in his dress, eloquent delivery and sub...

additional Flutes and Flugelhorns

Jazz Big Band Arrangement. Full Score, Reed 1: Clarinet, Reed 2: Clarinet, Reed 3: Clarinet, Reed 4: Bass Clarinet, Reed 5: Clarinet/Baritone Saxophone, 3 Trumpets, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trombones, Guitar,...

RECORDED BY CLAUDE THORNHILL ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Background: In many ways, Claude Thornhill led an avant-garde society dance band. Like such leaders as Henry King and Ted...

Dedicated to the memory of Robin Williams, a man who could make the furniture laugh.

Aus der Reihe 'Bernaerts Light Pieces'.

From the pen of one of the best composers in the jazz field. Oddo is best known for his many contributions to the library of the Woody Herman Band. This exquisite piece is a first place winner in the...

A lovely alto ballad feature (with a flugelhorn leading the sax section plus 4 trumpets), this chart was premeired by Dave Pietro at the Mile High Jazz Camp a few years back. Predominately in a seriou...

In 1953, Kenton recorded an album titled Sketches on Standards. It was a great recording containing the arrangements of Russo and Kenton. The piece has a wonderful trombone solo in it (as originally r...

Recorded by Buddy Rich on the album Stick It, this driving original with attitude assigns the primary solos to tenor and alto sax, with the drummer contributing several well-placed fills throughout. L...

Hold on to your hat! This wild, hard-rock chart is unbelievable in it's energy, meter changes, strong rhythmic motifs and more. The opening is strong, with the whole band roaring and then settling int...

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...