Big Band Original-Arrangements

This funk chart was originally recorded by the Yellowjackets for their Time Squared CD. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, this big band version requires a triplet-based swing feel similar to hi...

As recorded by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra on their Suite For Pops album, this tribute to Louis Armstrong begins with a short soprano sax solo before the band joins in. Lots of wonderful sax se...

Recorded in 1998 by the Monday Night Big Band on their Thanks To Thad album, this is Part 2 of Thad's larger Return Journey Suite. Set in 5/4 time, it's an intense workout that calls for well-executed...

Recorded on the 'The New Sound of Maynard Ferguson and his Orchestra 1964,' this is an edited version of the chart (instrumentation 5 saxophones, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, Piano, Guitar, Bass and Drums...

Composed and arranged by Gordon Goodwin, this buoyant samba is sweet. Soprano sax lead and solo space available for soprano, alto, tenor, trumpet and trombone. Lead trumpet range is to written high F-...

This classic Herbie Hancock composition has become one of the most well-known songs in jazz history. Gordon Goodwin wanted to do something a little different in his arrangement without violating the s...

AS RECORDED BY CARMEN MCRAE ARRANGED BY JACK PLEIS, TRANSCRIBED AND ADAPTED BY SYD POTTER This great cha cha arrangement was recorded by Carmen McRae on February 21, 1955 with the Jack Pleis Orchestra...

Recorded on the SWR Big Band CD Fun Time, this medium tempo ballad has an irresistible Latin beat. Trumpets double on flugelhorn and solo space is reserved for trumpet/flugelhorn and alto sax. Each se...

features Trombone or Flugelhorn

The LP The First Circle contains some of the most exciting contemporary music ever created. This chart has been acclaimed as one of the best big band arrangements ever done! The piece is rhythmically...

Here is a great blend of swing and Latin, done in the inimitable style of Oliver Nelson. It was recorded on the Flying Dutchman label in 1969. This wonderful chart features alto saxophone. 5-4-4-3.

as recorded by Arturo Sandoval on 'Hot House'

This monster arrangement is the authentic version as recorded by Bill Watrous and his 'Manhattan Wildlife Refuge' in the mid '70s. The signature lines and blazing tempo of Chick Corea's classic are tr...

Das Originalarrangement des Hamburger Roy Frank Orchestras zeigt den Klassiker 'Harlem Nocturne' in einem völlig neuen Gewand. Der Wechsel zwischen Swing- und Latin-Abschnitten im Beguine-Rhythmus mac...

Dies ist ein sehr cooler Chart, der mühelos zwischen Swing und Beguine wechselt. Er wurde von Julie Londons 1961er Liberty Records Album "Whatever Julie Wants" transkribiert. Insgesamt ist der Chart e...

Ella Fitzgerald und ihre wunderbare Version des Klassikers 'A Fine Romance' von Jerome Kern aus dem Broadway-Musical 'Swing Time' (1936) mit Fred Astaire und Ginger Rodgers. In der Adaption von Jon Ha...

The opening cut from the Mingus Big Band CD Gunslinging Birds is this raucous and blistering jazz waltz. Mingus wrote this piece as a tribute to Charlie Bird Parker with the subtitle If Charlie Parker...

From the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra CD Shout Me Out!, the title cut features a medium slow shout chorus surrounded by solo choruses. Hard-hitting swing at its best!

This John Clayton original from the CD Groove Shop explodes into a medium swing groove, then features a small group (soprano, tenor, trumpet and trombone) on the first go-around of the tune. The saxes...

Written for the Ellington orchestra by saxophonist Johnny Hodges, this catchy riff-based tune swings hard from beginning to end. After the hard-hitting opening, solos are exchanged by tenor, trombone,...

Recorded on the Grammy-nominated CD 'I Am Three' by the Mingus Big Band, this composition was originally written by Mingus for a 1959 television drama. Arranged here for the Mingus Big Band by the lat...