Bill Holman

This is one of the great 'unrecorded' (or 'missing') solo features written for the Stan Kenton Orchestra. It features trumpet throughout and is loaded with lots of solo space and terrific Holmanesque...

As written for and recorded by the Woody Herman Orchestra (Columbia), here is a great chart fashioned with a nod to Gerry Mulligan's groups. It is a bright, swing chart with solo spaces for tenor sax,...

Holman has done a few arrangements of this tune, and this one may well be the best. Bill wrote this chart for the great Woody Herman Orchestra. It is written in a very bright swing tempo, and there is...

Bill Holman's arrangement, from the Maynard Ferguson Band 'Boy With Lots Of Brass' recording, is a wonderful medium-swing tune with solo space for piano, alto, and trumpet. This chart spans the spectr...

Bill Holman's arrangement, from the Maynard Ferguson Band 'Boy With Lots Of Brass' recording, is a wonderful medium-swing tune with solo space for piano, alto, and trumpet. This chart spans the spectr...

This Bill Holman chart was written for the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra. It is recorded on 'Live at Peacock Lane' and is a bright swing tune that features solos for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and d...

This great chart is recorded (1999) on the Azica CD 'Swingin' the Blues.' Holman grabs this simple Ellington tune and runs with it. The arrangement is yet another amazing example of Bill Holman's extr...

The Daily Dance was recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on the CD 'Birthday in Britain.' The piece is a very fast-swing that features solos for alto saxophone, trumpet, piano (written) and drums. Th...

Bill Holman wrote some of the best music played by the Stan Kenton Orchestra and ''Boop Boo Be Doop'' is surely one of those charts. The melody is scored for four horns within the big band setting, an...

Bill Holman's music never disappoints, and 'Introduction to an Ending' is no exception! Originally written for and recorded on the Charlie Barnet Big Band 1967 album, this straight-ahead blues tune fe...

Originally composed by Bill Holman for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Bob Curnow's arrangement of 'Solos' scores the melody in the unison saxophone section and is written for 8-brass. A straight-ahead, sw...

Bill Holman has given us a superb gift on his 90th birthday - his gift of swing, humor, great melody, and his always exciting ensemble passages. Here is his newest original - a buoyant, optimistic, ha...

Composed by Bill Holman (the original version) for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, this is a straight-ahead, swinging chart based on 'rhythm changes,' and has a hip, angular melody that sets up some powerf...

Bill Holman arranged this gem of a Bobby Troup composition for the Charlie Barnet Big Band. This is a great, old school swingin' chart complete with solo space for alto saxophone and trumpet. Unison m...

The title says it all for this toe tapping Bill Holman arrangement of the classic Rogers & Hammerstein composition as recorded on the album, 'Bill Holman's Great Big Band'. Arranged in an up-tempo swi...

Ein unglaubliches Werk - anspruchsvoll und mit ausgedehnter Spiellänge demonstriert es Bill Holmans Können.

This wonderful chart features a front line of tenor sax and trumpet stating the melody. There is solo space for alto, two tenors, trumpet and drums. A rip-roaring shout chorus highlights the marvelous...

Scintillating big band music at its best!! Holman does it again! Lots of blowing space for trombone and baritone sax, and a romp-stompin' trip through Holman's present-day ideas about the modern big b...

Bill's wonderful melodic ideas find a home in a humorous setting featuring swinging tenor sax and trombone solos. Wonderful shout choruses. Fascinating twists and turns, as always in a hard-swinging t...

A kind of quirky approach in a medium groove. Unusual harmonic schemes create a fresh and exciting feature. This swings like CRAZY! The band really has the chance to be creative.(4 soprano saxes) Incl...

This chart was recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on the CD 'I Told You So.' This is a rip-roaring, swinging chart. It starts with trombones and rhythm setting the time with simple halfnote figures...

This chart was recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on the CD 'I Told You So.' This is yet another terrific Holman chart written for that band! A slow, swinging, Li'l Darlin - ish kind of chart, it h...

Holman has a wonderful knack of taking just about any tune and making it swing like crazy. This one sure does! Recorded on The Fabulous Bill Holman LP, this chart is amazing in its simplicity and effe...