Anspruchsvolle Noten für Big Band

Exciting high-energy jazz-fusion piece w/some challenging lines for the horns & guitar. Solo vehicle for tenor sax & guitar [optional]. Some parts are difficult.

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Dramatic and modern, blending jazz with elements from the classical world like minimalism and serialism. While this piece is not very technically challenging, it requires a mature ensemble (especially...

Malinke's Dance is a funky boogaloo originally recorded live on a CD of the same name by the Marty Ehrlich quartet Traveler's Tales. This arrangement develops material from the live performance into a...

Funhouse was written by Bob Brookmeyer for an extended quartet engagement in 2004 at The Jazz Standard in New York City with Brad Shepik, Drew Gress, and John Hollenbeck. The piece has not been record...

For those of you who just couldn't get enough Moleids, here's the long awaited sequel. This driving hip-hop/ funk composition has little in common w/its sister chart other than a sense of adventure, p...

An original up-beat jazz waltz. Opening statement played by the lead trombone, with ad lib solos for 1st trombone and 1st tenor sax. Flugel section features a build up to the final, exciting shout cho...

A jazz composition by bassist Christian McBride, this is a fantastic melodic and technically challenging string bass feature from his 1994 CD Gettin' It Together. It has become a popular standard for...

A Flag waving opener or closer feturing a jazz baritone solo along with 1st trombone doing both adlib and short written solo. There is an abundance of high driving brass and fast moving unison saxopho...

Jazz-Rock (Brecker-Bros.-like) features trumpet and guitar solo.

Long contemporary jazz piece (10 min) starts out medium tempo with flugelhorn and tenor sax melody and solos, then a slow jazz waltz featuring flugelhorn and finishing with a fast jazz-samba featuring...

A straight-ahead chromatic-blues piece from the Steve Wiest Big Band Libray. Based on a 12- tone row with underlaying chromatic changes, solos are written for trombone (or treble clef instrument) as w...

Medium-up tempo, straight-ahead chart from the University of North Texas library. Recorded on 'Lab 2008' the piece develops a 'spiraling line' throughout a series of modal changes. Solo sections for t...

Description: Based on the original composition by Brad Leali from his CD Priority Soul, this is a medium tempo shuffle that features alto sax. Arranged for the University of North Texas Three O'Clock...

Description: Medium tempo straight ahead guitar feature in the style of Wes Montgomery. Written for the University of North Texas Award-Winning Two O'Clock Lab Band directed by Jay Saunders. Features...

Medium-tempo piece built around the very funky drums-n-bass groove. This ultra-hip groove (also known as breakbeat) grew out of the James Brown- influenced Rave scene and then morphed into a modern ja...

This is an extremely high energy, quasi-rock funk chart that features the entire band. There's a melody solo for lead tenor, as well as solo space for guitar, soprano sax, and trumpet. Indluding an ee...

It is an astral-travelogue. You can get the flavor of it by imagining yourself floating in space over a big city and observing what is going on in several neighborhoods at once, this having been made...

This is obviously a funk tune, but this one has changes to it! In fact, the changes are difficult, so it takes mature soloists. The small group consists of alto, low trumpet, and high trumpet (or clar...

5-4-4-4. Tenor doubles flute, baritone has optional bass clarinet part. Medium samba (1/2 note=c.88) commissioned by the Warner Robins Air Force Reserve Jazz Ensemble. Lots of linear interplay with so...

An offbeat funk oriented piece in 3/4 time alternating with a 4/4 B section featuring a snaky chromatic funky blues line introduced by a group of 4 horns and then developed by the entire band. May req...

A challenging original that will really give your band something to shoot for. A semi 'out' tpt/ten neo bop line based on the G diminished scaled and ascending half diminished changes proceeds into a...

Funky hip-hop style Brecker Bros. type line reminiscent of Freedom Jazz Dance with a strut feel B section. Solo sections feature more dimished scale vamps followed by a cal and response section over a...