Big Band Original-Arrangements

This is NOT the Glenn Miller version of this tune. Gene Roland arranged this for the Kenton Band (recorded on the 'Live at the Tropicana' CD), and it swings like crazy! There is a nifty pattern create...

Lennie Niehaus wrote a series of terrific arrangements for the Stan Kenton Orchestra (this was recorded on the 'Stage Door Swings' CD). This chart is a medium-swing version of a great Rodgers & Hammer...

This is exactly as recorded on the new Les Hooper Big Band CD 'Out of the Woods.' It is a wonderful piece, written in an easy swing tempo, with a great feel, fresh harmonic content, lots of clever lin...

Benny Carter created a wealth of marvelous, swinging big band music, and this piece is no exception to that. As recorded on 'The Legend' by the Count Basie Orchestra, this medium-swing chart features...

One of the great Basie recording was 'The Legend,' of which all the pieces were Benny Carter originals. This chart is from that recording, and it is a wonderfully soulful piece, set in a slow swing te...

Here is another terrific chart from Shorty Rogers (as recorded on the 'Portrait of Shorty' album). Shorty always had a way of creating wonderful melodies and exciting arrangements for big band. This c...

Bill Holman has created a rollicking, swinging, wonderful 'tribute' to Woody Herman with this great chart. As recorded on 'Bill Holman Band Live' (jazzedmedia.com), this chart features solos for tenor...

This is a wonderful chart, an old tune in a new dress, as only Bill Holman can do it. It's the exact chart as recorded by the terrific Charlie Barnet Big Band. The tempo is bright, a swinging excursio...

This chart is not for the faint-of-heart. It moves at a fast, swinging pace, and it captures the spirit of Parker's classic bebop tune, including the humor. As recorded on the new CD 'The Bill Holman...

As recorded on the new CD 'The Bill Holman Band Live', this chart features two tenor saxophone players throughout, playing together and separately. This is the ideal solo vehicle for your tenor player...

As recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra (Creative World CD) on ' Live at Redlands University', this chart is a rip-roaring latin and swing chart that just flies along. There is solo space for alto sa...

As recorded on the new CD 'Hommage', Holman has written a witty, musical, fun-filled 'fantasy' on the well-known American tune (as in 'You are my....') with lots of space for creative playing, and the...

What a marvelous chart this is! The 'engine' which keeps on going is a 4-bar vamp in the rhythm section. It occurs throughout the piece and ties everything together beautifully. Set in a bright swingi...

As recorded on 'Tonight Show Band, Vol. 1' (Amherst), Holman has set this wonderful standard in a hard-driving swing, with lots of great ensemble section writing. The piece features a challenging trum...

As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on 'Once More With Feeling' (Amherst), this wonderful chart is the hottest 'flag-waver' of all time. Holman starts things out with the trumpet section's 'call to a...

As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on 'Once More With Feeling' (Amherst), this bright, swinging chart is a blast ! Bill Holman is at his best, weaving descending unison lines with the tune stated by...

As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on 'Once More With Feeling' (Amherst), this is one of Tommy's 'classic' charts .... swinging, inventive and just plain wonderful. The arrangement moves through a s...

As recorded on 'Tonight Show Band, Vol. 2' (Amherst), Holman has created a warm and wonderful chart on this superb standard. Set in a 'swingy ballad' feel, it features a short trumpet solo (in the 1st...

This wonderful chart is recorded on 'Tonight Show Band, Vol. 2' (Amherst). Once again, Holman takes a fresh look at a great standard tune. Although the piccolo, flute and clarinet doubles make this a...

This piece was never recorded by the Pat Metheny Group. It was 'lost in history' until discovered on a 1985 radio transcription. Pat says this was written for a gig with Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins a...

This was written for Doc Severinsen to premier at the Midwest Band & Orchestra Conference. It is a bright, swinging chart that features trumpet throughout (of course). This can be performed with an ou...

Includes solo clarinet part, but no baritone saxophone.

Includes solo clarinet part, but no baritone saxophone.

Grammy nominated arrangement brings the jazz and classical worlds closer together in this rich and exciting treatment. Features a clever sax soli, meaty changes for your best soloists (it is Bach, aft...

Hier ist unsere Transkription dieses großartigen Standards, wie er von Frank Sinatra auf seinem Reprise-Album 'Sinatra and Swingin' Brass' von 1962 gespielt wurde. Neal Hefti schrieb das Originalarran...