Ensembles

Up tempo minor blues featuring baritone and trumpet. Featured at the 1987 Playboy Jazz Fest.

Medium-up blues featuring soprano and tenor. Trumpet to written high C.

Challenging medium tempo shuffle featuring guitar and bari sax.Challenging sax soli. Lead trumpet to a high G.

3/4 ballad feature for tenor sax or soprano sax. Solo is in double time.

Challenging half time rock chart with soprano and tenor solos. Some clever multimeter sections change up but do not break up the overall groove.

Easy Jazz Waltz. Features Alto sax (or Soprano). Doubles. This is a quiet chart.

An alto, flugelhorn, or trombone (up to a high D) feature, this medium tempo ballad is the perfect vehicle for showing off a developing soloist. No doubles. First trumpet to C above the staff.

Fast Latin crowd-pleaser with a unison lead for tenor, trumpet, and trombone. No doubles. First trumpet and solo trumpet to B above the staff. Recorded by the Don Bowyer Big Band on 'Itchin In The Kit...

This blues-shuffle features bari sax, trombone, and trumpet. The two-chorus sax soli is challenging but accessible. No doubles. First trumpet to C# above the staff. Recorded by the Don Bowyer Big Band...

This beautiful ballad features alto sax throughout, in a 'neo-Kenton' style. No doubles. First trumpet to C above the staff. Recorded by the Don Bowyer Big Band on 'Itchin In The Kitchen' on Dolphin D...

A contemporary New Orleans 'street-beat' kicks this old standard into a new gear. In the style of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Clarinet. Auxilliary percussion parts for one saxophone and one trumpet. F...

An uplifting, hand clapping, and dare I say it...heartbeating rock piece for big band in which the kick drum acts as a heartbeat. In certain sections of the song the audience can be invited to clap al...

Modal jazz tune in a relaxed subtle groove. Interesting tone colors and shadings give it a 'West Coast-cool' flavor. Alto, trumpet or guitar solos.

A new approach to the Basie style. Melody features Flugelhorn lead over tight voiced saxes. A sax soli and powerful shout chorus bring it home. Guitar, tenor and Flugelhorn solos.

Extended 'Blues'. It's a 16 bar blues that features the trombones on the 'head'. Figures snap hard, but not high for the trumpets. Solos: Alto and piano, trumpet range high C#.

Commisioned by Martin Murphy Middle School, Morgan Hill, California. A beautiful jazz ballad featuring BARITONE SAXOPHONE. Interpreting the 12/8 rhythms will challenge you. Begins and ends in a quiet...

The relaxed Neal Hefti 'Lil' Darlin' groove makes a nice change on a jazz program. Not rangy or technically difficult. But takes a mature band to make it feel right. Solos: Piano, Tenor, Trumpet.

Dedicated to the spirit of jazz that never dies. A smooth jazz ballad that displays the ensemble's control on long sustained passages. Nice harmonic sequence with changes similar to 'Giant Steps' and...

Named for the intense style of jazz Miles was playing with his quintet in the late 1960's. An unusual composition for me. Based on a twelve tone row, this piece is sometimes tonal, sometimes atonal. S...

Medium tempo, 16 bar blues shuffle written for a Thad Jones style. Tenor solo & sax Soli.

Exciting up tempo adventure. Starts out w/a strong melody & ends w/a cooking shout chorus to test your ens. Solo for Bone & alternate changes for Trpt.

Medium blues chart that really cooks. Solo: Baritone [opt'l Alto], & of course Bass.

Ballad featuring the trombone section.

A fun blues chart in the style of the James Brown band, w/a twist-eleven bars in 11/8 w/the twelfth bar always in 12/8. An open section provides solo space for any soloist in your band on Bb Blues. Fl...

Medium tempo blues shuffle that can feature as many soloists as you wish. A cappella section, soloist trades fours with the sax section, trpt section and trbn section.