Anspruchsvolle Noten für Big Band

Selected as a finalist for the 2007 BMI/Charlie Parker Jazz Competition Award, this gorgeous jazz waltz was originally written as a surprise for his wife on their wedding day. Lush sonorities are achi...

This is a medium tempo AABA bluesy shuffle in F minor that features the top three trombones on solos and the entire section in an 'a capella' soli. The 3rd Trombone solo is cued in one of the tenor pa...

A medium-up tempo in a 12-bar form that's almost a blues. Features trumpet or trombone solo exchanges with sax solis and alto or tenor solo exchanges with brass solis plus a string of exciting contrap...

Slow dirty blues with clarinet and trumpet solos, plunger muted brass, clarinet lead in sax section (on tenor part) and alternating double time feel to keep the rhythm section on their toes. As record...

Beautiful, contemporary 12/8 feel, featuring solo bone and tenor sax. 4 flugels with saxes on unison flutes at beginning. Solos begin with a semi-free feel that can be opened up. Unison trumpet soli o...

Lots of Coltrane influence here with this chart. The melody is beautifully scored, making use of muted brass and saxes floating calmly over a quietly driving rhythm section. Lots of solo space, a fun...

This is Tom's favorite Gloria Morgan ballad. It also has a solo spot for trumpet, and has a decidedly Ellington flavor to it. Vocal range is from A below middle C to C above middle C. Medium difficult...

A hard drivin' gospel shuffle that features alto saxophone. Need a soloist that can really get down and 'greasy' ala Sanborn. Ensemble builds a fire under the soloist. Great for showing off a great al...

Written as a tribute to the great lead alto player Johnny Hodges, this chart uses the conventional harmonic and rhythmic language of the era. Basically a blues with a bridge 'Hodge' develops in a conv...

Alto feature, starts medium slow, then to medium fast 5/4 stretto ensemble, jazz 4/4 coda slow melody super imposed on 5/4 motif.

Alto saxophone feature. A written solo & soli based on remembrances of Chu Berry by the composer. Good full harmonization ala Dirk. Inst.5 sax's,5 flugelhorns, 3 tenor trombones, bass trombone & 4rhyt...

A soulful, gospel-tinged feature for alto saxophone, this chart was written as a tribute to Tom Capps, a former student who succumbed to cancer. No doubles or difficult/technical problems, just a poig...

Feature our alto saxophone soloist on this beautiful ballad! A lyrical melody coupled with some interesting harmonic twists will provide a great vehicle for a more advanced alto player to shine! The a...

Lush & lovely, ballad feature for your most forgotten soloist...bari. Some sax dbls.

Jazz ballad. Very pretty flugel feature. A great feature for that trumpet player with that great sound. Trpt High 'C'.

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

Clarinet feature with lush flute backgrounds. Nice full ensemble writing. Some sax doubles.

Commissioned by the Nova Jazz Orchestra in St. Paul, MN, 'A Time of Reckoning' is a piano feature, with additional solo space for guitar or vibes. This chart continues the long tradition of pieces bas...

Hints of Romanticism are evoked by this contemplative, stirring piano feature. Vetted within the BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop, this piece calls for woodwind doublings (3 flutes & 2 clarinets), fluegel...

Piano-feature in medium even-eigths tempo with a touch of Pat Metheny feel. After a 32-bar intro comes the 34-bar theme featuring piano. Then a 20-bar soft band tutti and a piano solo. After that a se...

This shuffle features the 3rd bone player playing the old familiar Frankie & Johnnie. Chart starts w/a cool vamp to set up the bone player playing the melody on plunger mute. There is plenty of soli s...

A lovely Trombone ballad feature written for Charlie Loper. Soloist is supported by lush orchestration. Excellent concert piece.

An up tempo feature for your trombone soloist. It burns right from the getgo, w/the soloist blowing over the full ens intro. The chart ends w/a hard driving blow for the band, leading up to a series o...

Also from Nick's album, this pretty 'groove' ballad feature for the Bone has a mellow ensemble & unison flute lines. Conductor's part.

Beautiful ballad feature for trombone - solo part to C5. Double-time bridge. No doubles; lead trumpet to C6.