Adapted directly from the version he penned for the Count Basie Orchestra, Sammy Nestico brings the signature style and familiar strains to this fabulous version for younger bands. The solo spots for...
Für junge Spieler gibt es keinen besseren Stil als den des Count Basie Orchestra, dem sie nacheifern können. Dieser berühmte Swing-Titel wurde von Mark Taylor in einer sehr spielbaren Version arrangie...
Hier ist Sammy Nesticos klassisches Arrangement dieses Frank Foster Jazz-Standards, wie er vom Count Basie Orchestra aufgenommen wurde! Mit dem charakteristischen Pianostil, gedämpften Bläsern im erst...
Frank Foster's composition, Shiny Stockings, is one of the greatest jazz tunes for big band. Arranged by Greg Yasinitsky and scored for an accessible grade 3 level, this chart has all the ingredients...
A medium shuffle blues (quarter note = 132) in D-flat scored for the Basie Orch in 1957. This chart was featured in the Jerry Lewis film 'The Errand Boy.' The chart features solos for Tenor (not heard...
One of the best-known standards from the Basie era, Frank Foster's medium swing tune adapts beautifully in the Little Big Band format. And Mike Tomaro adds a few twists of his own in this appealing ch...
Re-scored a fourth lower to F containing all of the skillfully penned structure written for the Count Basie band by Frank Foster in the early 60's.
Here's a great way to introduce the music of Count Basie to your younger players. Carefully scored for beginning groups, this medium swing chart trades the melody between the trumpets and saxes, inclu...
Frank Foster, leader and arranger for the Count Basie band, penned this version of the classic big band tune. Recreate that great Basie sound with your own ensemble, using the same chart they use. Won...
AS RECORDED BY THE DUKE PEARSON BIG BAND ARRANGED BY FRANK FOSTER, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF (From the forward by Jeffrey Sultanof) Frank Foster is still best known for his many years as saxophonist/...
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Arranged by Frank Foster and recorded by Diane Schuur with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1987, Deedles' Blues features an infectious melody with some appropriately sultry lyrics by Los Angeles-based vo...
You Can Have It is the result of a collaboration between legendary saxophonist/arranger Frank Foster and Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Morgan Ames. This arrangement was specifically crafted to f...
This arrangement is part of Frank Foster's Vintage Basie Series, compositions performed and/or recorded by Count Basie and his world famous New Testament orchestra between 1953 and 1960. It's another...
Right from the Count Basie book, and taken from the latest CD from the Count Basie Band. This is not a re-arrangement! These are the parts used by Frank Foster and the Basie Band in their nightly enga...
Another D-flat blues, but this one's more laid back (as the title might imply) OI' th' Pocket' tempo (quarter note = 108-112); the chart starts the same as the one recorded on Roulette Records, Easin'...
Medium blues. Solos for piano, trumpet w/harmony & Trombone. As recorded by Count Basie Orchestra.
This is a kind of knock-down-drag-out blues in A-flat major that features solos by piano and trombone. In a medium fast swing tempo (quarter note =160), the chart is somewhat typical of the so-called...
Discommotion is a medium up-tempo (quarter note=176) blues in B-flat that really shouts for 4 minutes and 55 seconds. Reminiscent of big band jazz from the 1960's, it might be called a sort of 'Off-Ba...
Originally written to feature legendary veteran bassist Earl May, longtime member of Frank Foster's Loud Manority big band rhythm section, this chart is perfect for the big band bassist who rarely tak...
One of Frank Foster's more ambitious charts in the context of the so-called 'Basie Tradition,' Major Butts is really just another medium up-tempo 12 bar blues, but with the added twist of an 'I Got Rh...
Tomorrow's Blues Today is a somewhat different kind of 'blues.' While it employs the normal 12-bar chorus format, it uses minor seventh chords insted of major or dominant chords in the first eight mea...
2nd trombone is featured throughout this arrangement, opening with the melody written out for solo trombone playing funky using the plunger (ala the late Al Grey), then unison trumpets take over doing...
A medium-up-tempo B-flat blues featuring 1st tenor sax throughout (originally written to feature tenor sax star Bill Saxton). The brief ensemble introduction is followed by unison saxes in the opening...
If your're at all into what might be called 'Funk Jazz', this chart should fill the bill for you. The rhythm section establishes the groove from the very beginning, with the piano doing the principal...
Dedicated to the memory of Tito Puente. Yo Recuerdo A Mi Hermano Tito is a Latin-flavored composition somewhere between a cha-cha and a mambo. It could be called either a fast cha-cha or a slow mambo....
Real Book - Melodielinie, Text & Akkorde.
Real Book - Melodielinie & Akkorde.
Real Book - Melodielinie & Akkorde - Instrumente in C.
Frank Foster originally composed 'Manhattan Fever' as the title track for a 1968 sextet date of the same name. In 1977, Foster would release another album under the same title, this time featuring his...
Frank Foster's contributions to the Count Basie orchestra of the 1950s cannot be underestimated. Whether serving as the band's star tenor saxophone soloist or one of its definitive arrangers, Foster p...
This brilliant Frank Foster arrangement was written for the Count Basie Orchestra and recorded live in Detroit in 1992 for their Telarc CD 'Basie's Bag.' Foster takes this 1974 Cedar Walton tune and t...
Dieses Frank Foster-Chart wurde erstmals Mitte der 1950er Jahre auf Basies Album April In Paris" aufgenommen, das beim Label Verve erschien. Unsere Transkription ist originalgetreu, mit der Ausnahme,...
Hier ist unsere Interpretation des Foster-Klassikers aus Basies Konzert in der Carnegie Hall 1981 mit Sonny Cohn an der Trompete. Wir haben die erste Hälfte von Cohns Solo ausgeschrieben und überlasse...
Medium swing chart. Featuring Trpt, Bone & Piano solos. Nice ensemble writing.
After a brassy intro in 2/4, the chart breaks into a medium fast swing. Although this tune is not a blues, the Tenor & Bone follow blues in Bb patterns for four choruses apiece. Exciting 'sudden death...
A challenging unison melody and an equally challenging set of chord changes reminiscent of the 'hard-bop' era characterize this moderatley fast tenor sax feature. The solo is on the 2nd tenor part, bu...
Medium swing. Written for Count Basie Band. Has great sax soli. Bone, Tenor & Trpt solos.Recorded by Frank Foster and the S.W.R. Big Band on 'Fresh Taste of Thad Jones...'.
A medium swing tempo rouser, this chart features baritone sax. With a one-measure pick-up break at the end of the intro, the 'big E-flat' states the melody of this B-flat blues, then takes off on its...
Your big band has just shaken the earth off its foundation with one of your monster flag wavers, now you'd like to cool things down with a somewhat relaxed swinger. Try Katherine The Great. She's also...
The fourth movement of the Count Basie Remembrance Suite, is a medium tempotune whose main purpose is to swing HARD! No tiptoeing through the tulips on this one, please! Although it starts off fairly...
A nice groovy medium tempo piece that swings right along, with solos for 2nd alto sax and 4th trumpet. Based on 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes, the arrangement contains a few 'boppish' licks in the melo...
With the same harmonic structure as the late Dizzy Gillespie's 'Woody'n You', this song features tenor sax and piano. Following the intro and opening chorus the ensemble swings for half a chorus, then...
A 16-bar blues that's just a little too happy to really be bluesy, 'Strut' lopes along with a medium up-tempo swinging motion with several 'two-five' progressions in its harmonic framework. solos by t...
This up-tempo swinger is dedicated to one of Chicago;s finest and one of the world's most fiery tenor saxophonists, Johnny Griffin. The challenging melody, based mostly on 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes...
Written for and featuring acclaimed guitarist George Benson with the Count Basie Orchestra, 'Ready Now' takes us on a swinging mildly up-tempo (but not too up) excursion through some slightly challeng...
The second movement of the Count Basie Remembrance Suite (four movements total), this short easy swinger, with its simply stated melody, is reminescent of the infectious Basie style of the 1940s, feat...
Medium up-tempo D-flat major blues (half note = 108) scored for Count Basie (and partially dictated by the Count himself) around 1060, somewhat imitating the Basie Band style of the 1940's, with brass...
This lovely ballad is the third movement of Foster's Count Basie Remembrance Suite. The lead Trombone is featured in an entirely written solo, except for a short improv cadenza on the ending. Also fea...
A somewhat mournful but haunting ballad dedicated to the late great jazz trumpet stylist, a New Orleans native who made his name with the bands of Lionel Hampton and Count Basie.This chart features th...
Medium tempo 12-bar blues featuring string bass, of course. The bass soloist states the melody as written, then gets off following an ensemble chorus. Ad-lib solo segments include trading 'fours' with...
This medium up-tempo blues features solos by flute, 4th trumpet , 2nd trombone, and 2nd tenor. It's a nice set opener to get things started vigorously. Your tenor sax soloist has to take it out with a...
