Walrus Music Publishing

Inspired by Homer Simpson's favorite day of the week, the VERY playable medium-up (mm=140) chart really cooks. A bluesy intro sets up the tasty 16-bar melody, played by altos and tenors. Solos are for...

A hauntingly beautiful ballad, with unusal voicings in an ECM-Vince Mendoza style. Originally a guitar vehicle, it can also feature vibes or tenor (optional parts are included.) Scored for 10 brass. R...

Here's a medium-up tempo modal chart that your band (and audience) will really enjoy. A contemporary head sits on top of an ostinato in open fifths, while the drummer keeps things energized with Elvin...

Your band will be itching to play this medium shuffle. The melody gets under your skin, and the shout chorus really burns! Listen carefully for cameo appearances by Wayne Shorter and the Pink Panther....

A great opener: a hard-driving minor blues shuffle always gets the crowd in the right mood. Your tenor player has a short bluesy cadenza at the top and again at the end, and is also featured on the so...

The 'spicy burrito' returns with a vengeance in this Latin chart that sounds much harder than it plays. An ominous opening leads into a 12/8 feel that alternates with a driving Afro-Cuban groove. You'...

Zoo is a hard driving medium-up (mm=156) opener that sounds hip, has an easy solo section, and will make your young band soung GREAT. The melody is played by altos and trumpets, with backgrounds added...

Otono (commissioned by Curtis Gaesser for the Folsom Jazz Festival) is a moody, medium-tempo Latin chart, based on the changes of another well-known tune about fall foliage. It's an ideal 'middle-of-t...

December is a Maria Schneider - esque chart that features tenor (opt. soprano) and trumpet (opt. guitar or vibes) solos. The ethereal melody floats over a 6/4 even-eigth groove. Solo changes are chall...

If you are searching for a great sounding, hip chart for young bands (with moose in the title), search no further. This chart has an infectious groove (hints of Steely Dan), very easy blowing changes...

Bounce House is an up-tempo chart based on a D minor blues and a recurring bass ostinato. It features your soloist of choice at C (a separate sheet of changes is provided) and your drummer at D. Some...

Fresh-sounding orchestration of a traditional Hebrew melody. Interesting and varied use of drums, solo space for tenor and trumpet. Optional vibes part, as well.

Medium-up Jazz Waltz. Wonderful melody set over a feel-good C-major pedal point. Excellent opener or closer. Tenor & Flugel have melody and jazz solos. Recorded on the Valley Jazz Orchestra CD Free Fo...

16th note funk groove in 3. Funky, contrapuntal a capella writing for the saxophone section. Jazz solos for trombone and alto saxophone. Described as Mintzer-ish by drummer John Riley. Trpt range: Hig...

A tribute to breadcrumb-and-popcorn-hungry ducks at your local park. Fun calypso in C-minor. Jazz solos in each section. Mouthpiece quacking in the trumpets. Title track of the Valley Jazz Orchestra C...

Modern straight 8th note feel. Terrific contrast piece. Lyrical melody; pedal point with shifting harmonies; solos for flugel, trombone, and flute (alto 1). Terrific piece for high school, college, an...

Some call this the obligatory weird tune. Very slow, exotic 16th-note feel. Drums use mallets. Opt. bass clarinet in the bari sax. Solos from trumpet and trombone. Trpt range: High E-flat.

Terry Riley meets the contemporary jazz orchestra: minimalist groove with shifting harmonic colors. Bass tacets entire chart. Some jazz in soprano sax 1. This is a one-of-a-kind big band tune. On Vall...

This Buddy Rich classic originally arranged by Paul Lavender has been newly upgraded by its composer John LaBarbera allowing this grade 3 chart to play more like the original recording. An optional so...

Beautiful original ballad feature for your lead alto or bari sax soloist. Very reminiscent of the great Kenton Orchestra ballad style. 8 bars of optional flute dbl. in bckgs. Lush orchestration plus a...

Ab blues chart that really twists the ears. Full brass punch melody gets counterlined with an 'out there' sax unison line. Later the tune goes into a Thad-like jazz march with the trumpets and saxes '...

Medium Latin in 7/4. Open solos in the mid section to climax in 13/4 slow rock. Then close like beginning.

Dbl-x feel funk. An exciting hard driving funk chart featuring Tenor & Trpt solos & ensemble playing.

A straight ahead shuffle in 5/4. Features Tenor solo, a soft shout, a double time Sax soli & big climax.

A dbl-x feel Samba in 4/4 shifting to 12/8; a very strong production chart featuring solos by Tenor, Guitar or Piano and Trpt.. Also extended Percussion solo to climax.