In Bob's usual style, this jazz waltz melody is shared by everyone.
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Bossa nova featuring sax section melody, alto bridge, tenor cadenza. Some sax dbls.
Tenor sax ballad feature. Intensity & sensitivity go hand in hand. Some sax dbls. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Soaring on Sea Breeze Jazz.
Medium tempo swinger that features great sounding ensemble. Some sac dbls.
Two tenors are featured soloists w/trading choruses. Some sax dbls. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Soaring on Sea Breeze Jazz.
A jazz waltz that doesn't feel like a waltz. Complex time feels. Some sax dbls. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Soaring on Sea Breeze Jazz.
Fast jazz waltz. Flowing melody w/fast moving wdwd lines underneath. Some sax dbls.
Light samba featuring flugelhorn & trbn. Simple & straight-forward. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Soaring on Sea Breeze Jazz.
Nice/easy 16 bar minor blues. 128 feel. Ensemble melody, bone solo. Some sax dbls.
A lush and haunting Bossa Nova. This chart challenges your band's ability to balance & play sensitively. Dbls.
A lush and melodic bossa nova featuring Flugel. The chart also utilizes interesting contrasts through the use of flutes & contra-bass clarinet dbls.
Bossa that features flugelhorn.
148-152 = half note. A show stopper to be played as fast as possible. This piece goes into half time bossa for alto solo [2nd part]. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on With All The Bells & Wh...
A gentle bossa nova featuring 2 altos. Woodwind doubles are clarinets, bass clarinet and Eb contra alto clarinet. Quarter note = 100. Recorded by the Bob Florence Limited Edition on Serendipity 18 on...
Luci is a Trumpet feature with a light Bossa Nova feel. The introduction has the soloist play fills with the Drums and later the rest of the Rhythm section. The Saxophone section introduces the theme....
This Bob Florence arrangement was written for Terry Gibbs to perform with the Dream Band on the Steve Allen show. This is an all-out vibe feature! We have included optional alternate B-flat and E-flat...
This swinging med. blues with it's unusual voicing and surprising ensemble sections avoids sounding like 'just another blues chart'. Bb, bass & contrabass, clarinets, flute dbls. Solos for Tenor. Trpt...
Up tempo swing. 1/4 note = 200. Solo changes in 2nd trumpet. Difficult sax soli. No doubles.
Great up-tempo swing chart. Can be used as a concert opener or closer. Written for Bill Holman. Extensive ensemble writing. Solos for Trpt, Alto & short Drum solo.
Very up tempo swing [ 1/4 note=300 approx.] in that great Florence style. Changes are based on How Deep is the Ocean. Solo space for Alto sax & trpt. Lots of ensemble writing. No dbls. Recorded by Bob...
Medium swing chart. Solo space for piano. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Funupsmanship.
Swinger featuring some of the finest ens writing for big band. Some sax dbls.
Swing chart featuring trpt & tenor on the initial melody. Sax soli. Some sax dbls.
Based on a 3/4 feeling in various tempos and style. Up tempo 3/4 swinger. Lower instruments have the melody. Some sax dbls. Part one of One, Two, Three.
Swinger featuring the melody from the 'two' baritone sax parts. Some sax dbls.
Straight ahead medium swing featuring both tenor saxes. No doubles.
A waltz. Baritone solo melody and flugelhorn solo. Very gentle for most of the way through. Quarter note = 72 (swing 8th notes). Recorded by the Bob Florence Limited Edition on Serendipity 18 on MAMA...
MM: quarter note = 88. A different treatment done slowly and quietly in a 3/4 swing feel. Solos are written out piano interludes and ad lib piano solo.
A bright blues with a bridge in a swing feel. The solos are by baritone (6) and trumpet. Lead trumpet to high Eb. Half note = 120. The piece is lonog but great for concerts. Recorded by Bob Florence &...
The old 1920's song done as a bright samba and fast swing (half note = 132). Solos are tenor and trumpet.No score.
A medium-fast, hard driving, swinging piece with lots of ensemble and solo space for Trumpet and Alto Sax. Piano intro followed by the whole ensemble leads to the Saxophone section stating the theme....
A rousing, humorous medium swing with solo space for Trombone. The arrangement starts out with two unaccompanied Baritone Saxes stating the theme later joined by the rest of the Sax section. Adding th...
Grammy nominated best instrumental composition for jazz ensemble. A complex piece of extended length. Lots of solo space for Soprano Sax, Trombone, Trumpet and Drums. Mixed meters of 3/2, 6/4, and 4/4...
This is one of Bob Florence's first well-known compositions. It has an 'old timey' dixie-ish vocabulary but definitely swings in a modern style. An easy conception, this chart has a very cool and play...
A touching treatment of a song that works at any time of the year. An a cappella trombone soli states the melody, then the baritone sax is featured as the rhythm section accompanies with some lovely s...
A lovely and subtle jazz waltz which switches between major and minor keys. Tenor, Flugelhorn and piano solos. Doubles.
An interesting modal pedal point introduction surprisingly breaks into a blues shuffle. Bari, Bone & Trpt solos.
An up tempo rhythm changes flag waiver that features Alto & Tenor solos. Challenging chromatic lines for sax section.
Another great Samba from Bob. Features Tenor sax and piano solos.Recorded by Pat Longo on 'Extreme Heat'.
An up tempo 3/4 version of this familiar jazz line. Soprano solo. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Funupsmanship.
An against-the-beat introduction sets up a lilting waltz featuring an engaging sax soli on the melody. Dbls. Plenty of solo space for Soprano. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited
An extremely fast Alto feature originally written to feature Lanny Morgan that, as its title implies, combines I Got Rhythm chord changes with blues changes.
An exciting 24 bar minor blues in 3/4 time w/an unforgettable shout chorus. Intermittent 5/4 bars have never swung so hard. Bone & Alto solos.
Up-tempo minor blues that would be a great opener!! Dynamic sax soli. Some sax doubles. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Sea Breeze Jazz.
