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Another one to feature the bones. This one's a swinger. Trumpet 1 to written high C. 5/4/4/P/B/D with optional 5th trumpet, 5th bone, & vibes. Medium.

Big band light swing. Sax unison and soli. Brass and sax counterpoint unison. Solos included: trpt-sax-trom and piano, ensemble chorus. Great for high school band. Recorded by Walt Procanyn on 'Big Ba...

This swinging chart of the very popular Clarinet polka featiures 2 Clarinets { 2 Altos doubling Clarinets } along with a full big band lineup. T., T., Bari., 4 Tpts., 4 Tbns., Gtr., Pno., Bass, & Drum...

This is a medium blues swing chart in the key G, dedicated to the great trumpet player Maynard Ferguson. Scored for 5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, and rhythm, no doubles. There is an optional bass...

This is a medium blues swing chart in the key of F, dedicated to the late great bassist Paul Chambers. This chart features the bass player with an optional cadenza at the beginning followed by a blues...

This is a great contemporary R&B chart in the key of B flat, dedicated to the late great electric bassist Jaco Pastorius. Scored for 5 saxes, 5 trumpets (the 5th part is optional), 4 trombones, and rh...

This is a up blues swing chart that features the tenor sax. The chart has no melody so it requires the tenor player to be a good soloist with a good musical imagination. The introduction is a slow, th...

his is a great chart with several different sections in a hard bop feel, a funk groove and a funk/swing feel. There is a funk tenor solo section and a cookin' swing (hard bop) trumpet solo section, wi...

Denise is a great sounding ballad dedicated to my beautiful wife Denise. It is a flugel horn feature. It switches back and forth from ballad feels, doble time half time feels, to swing feels throughou...

Basically Long John is an exciting medium swing guitar feature based on G blues. What did you expect, E blues? Dave wrote this chart spcifically for his good friend, John Sterling, a great all round g...

Challenging 5/4 medium tempo, blues inspired swinger. Tenor & Trumpet solos and tricky ensemble choruses. Recorded by The New England Jazz Ensemble on Sea Breeze Jazz.

An exciting swinging flag waver with challenging sax statements, splashes of odd rhythms and funk beats, sax and brass solo sections and an extremely powrful shout chorus. Recorded by The New England...

This is an easy introduction to rhythm changes for your band with solo space for alto, tenor or rhythm section in the first section and trumpet, trombone or rhythm in the second. Instead of a shout ch...

A slow swinger at MM = 110 that features the 1st trombone, a piano with 2 choruses each and an interlude in between where upon the ensemble settles into a swingin building groove until the end.

A big production arrangement featuring sax, trpt, and trbn solis - no solos. Trbn soli is one and 3/4's choruses going up to high D on the lead part. It has a reoccuring interlude using straight 8th p...

A very slow swing caling for precision in execution. Features a jazz flute solo on the lead alto part. Tempo doubles in the middle and then back to tempo 1 for the last chorus.

This chart cooks from beginning to end with plenty of opportunity for soloists (either reading or improvising) to swing.

Vortex is a medium swing composition for jazz ensemble, and is designed for the advanced jazz ensemble. It is intended to have a loose, ECM-like rhythm section feel. The chord progression is tricky fo...

A modal composition in a fast swing feel. This piece was selected Winner of the 2007 Sammy Nestico Award for new jazz composition. The work tansforms during its course from a linear texture toward ver...

Commissioned by the Grand Rapids Jazz Orch (Michigan), this is an uptempo swinging chart that features drums, with trombone and piano solos. Through-composed yet very accessible and relatively simple...

This is the title track from the album released by the Los Angeles Jazz Workshop on AM-PM records. As the title suggests, this is a medium swing tempo in the style of Basie. Nice a capella trombone so...

Written in tribute to the legendary Sammy Nestico, this medium swinger is in a Basie vein. The catchy melody, modulating shout chorus and several musical references to Nestico have made this chart a h...

Up-tempo, brisk contemporary swing at soft dynamic level. Minor mood throughout. Inventive orchestration. Solos in tenor and trombone. Excellent contrast piece. On Valley Jazz Orchestra CD Free Food?...

Up-tempo 40's swing featuring guitar melody and solo (Brian-Setzer-like).

Up-tempo 40's swing in minor featuring guitar solo (Brian-Setzer-like).