Ensembles

Title comes from the fact that this is a 13-bar tune. This chart will work at various tempos but is most effective fast. Many swinging ensemble sections w/solos for Tenor, Trpt & Bass.

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...

A 'bluesy' tune that is not a blues. Quarter note = 136. The interval of the dimished fifth is prominent, in both melody and harmony. The chord progression makes extensive use of the 'Circle of Fifths...

Easy swing. It has unison trumpet section playing a catchy melody. Solos for tenor & piano with fat ensemble writing.

This is a swinging blues with solos for trumpet, trombone & piano. A 'Basie' flavor comes through in the sax soli & full ensemble section.

Pleasant chart in easy-medium tempo Basie groove. Features Flute & muted Trpt on melody & solos. Lots of relaxed swinging ens work.

Relaxed med.-tempo jazz waltz. Features Trpt & Tenor on melody & solos w/plenty of swinging ens work. High brass. Recorded by Roger Neumann's Rather Large Band on Sea Breeze Jazz.

An out & out shuffle. It's got blues changes, but extended to a 20 bar chorus. Lots of swinging ensembles. Solos: Trumpet, tenor & piano. Playable with 3 trumpets, 1 trombone & 4 saxes.

A pleasant straight-ahead swinger, with a Basie flavor. It's ensemble all the way, no solos. A 32 bar sax soli that gives your saxes something to work on.

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.

a hard swinging up-tempo blues, w/solos for Trpt, Trbn, Tenor, Piano & Bass. Lots of swinging ens [strong high brass] & 'Ellingtonish' saxes.

An up-tempo swinging blues, in which the melody is passed back & forth & repeated by Trpts & Saxes. Toward the end the tempo changes back & forth from the up-tempo half-time. Open solo spots for Trpt,...

This is a roasting up-tempo swinger that starts w/the 'shout chorus', which repeats at the end. Solos: Trpts, Trbns, Alto, Tenor, Bari & Piano. There is plenty of ens work [high lead Trpt] include sax...

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...

(In memory of Paul Shaghoian) Part one of ' There'. (Commissioned in honor of Gil Evans by IAJE and the Herb Aplert Foundation and premiered by soloist Tim Ries with the Fresno Jazz Composers Orchestr...

(In memory of Paul Shaghoian) Part two of ' There'. (Commissioned in Honor of Gil Evans by IAJE and the Herb Alpert Foundation and premiered by soloist Tim Ries with the Fresno Jazz Composers Orchestr...

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.

This is an original big band chart (5/4/4/G/P/B/D) featuring alto and trombone solos. It is medium tempo swing and has an interesting interlude between solos. Tpt. 1 to written high C#. Medium Difficu...

Medium swing. 1/4 note = 144. Great ensemble writing. Solo changes on 1st tenor sax and 1st trombone. Nice shout chorus. Flute doubles. Optional percussion.

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