The Automatic

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...

A feature ballad for trombone or Flugelhorn with a double time 'bop' ensemble section. No doubles.

This chart was written for a premier at the 2002 Verona Jazz Festival and performed by an All Star Big Band. The chart features a solo transcription of Conte Candoli's great solo on There Is Not Great...

A very pretty, moderate-tempo jazz waltz, w/ solos for soprano sax [opt'l Alto] Flugelhorn, Piano & Bass. This one's great for dynamics, w/muted brass & brushes part of the time. Recorded by Roger Neu...

Cute tune in a light rock style. A 'bluesy' melody w/unusual changes. Solos for Tenor & Alto. Through ingenious use of cues & big sounding voicings they will 'sound' w/only 3 brass (2 Trpts & 1 Bone),...

New Music for Jazz Ensemble. Features Chord Changes And Scales For Improvisation During All Solo Passages; Chord Changes And Notated Voicings In The Piano Part; Chord Changes And Notated Ines In The B...

Commissioned by the Martin Murphy Jazz Band, this fascinating up-tempo jazz waltz employs flugelhorns, vibraphone, bass clarinet, flute and soprano sax to create an alluring musical tapestry.

The intensity exhibited in the music of Miles Davis is reflected in this distinctive trumpet/tenor sax.