Mittelschwere Swing-Noten

An impressive Count Basie style chart delivers with the sound of jazz big bands so popular in the late 40's into the mid 50's. Great teaching piece that is very playable and it swings! Written solos....

Geoff has taken this well-known Nat Adderley tune and given it a breath of fresh thinking, interesting voicings, and very playable phrases. This excellent chart features any soloists you want (chord s...

The Bill Holman Great Big Band recorded this chart on the Capitol album (same name) in 1960. It is a clever, humorous, nifty chart that features duets in stereo with tenor saxes and trumpets (and othe...

Bill Holman titled this one after the signs which used to be in the old-time dance halls around the country. Written in the '50's for Maynard's Birdland Dream Band, this chart is a laid back, swinging...

Sierra continues to find the lost treasures from Maynard Ferguson's Birdland Dream Band Library. A Country Boy starts out with a lazy trombone solo on the written melody and swings along from there. R...

This is the original version of the tune recorded in 1946, and also included in the Milestones LP. This was transcribed by Bob Curnow for Gunther Schuller's Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra concerts. Tenor...

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...

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...

Shorty Rogers was very well known for his 'nonet' charts (6 horns, 3 rhythm), and this was one of his best-loved compositions. Set in an easy, low swing, 'Pirouette' has a lilting melody, along with a...

Bob Curnow has created a wonderful 'nonet' chart (6 horns, 3 rhythm) on this great Rodgers & Hart tune. The medium-swing setting features solo space for alto, tenor, flugelhorn, trombone and piano and...

Here is a wonderful 'Basie-ish' chart with a catchy melody set in an easy-swing tempo. Curnow has created a laid-back, swinging chart very much in the style of Sammy Nestico and others who wrote for t...

Diese Version stammt aus dem Album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook" und wurde als Duett zwischen Bette Midler und Barry Manilow (der auch das Klavier auf dem Stück spielte) aufgeführ...

The Swing Brothers. Classic-Swing-Version des beliebten Titels.

Die bekannte Melodie des RED RIVER VALLEY hat Erwin Jahreis ganz zauberhaft als swingendes Bigband-Boogie-Arrangement bearbeitet. Es erinnert stilistisch an den legendären Glenn Miller.

Von diesem Song aus dem Jahr 1956 haben im Laufe der Jahre zahlreiche Künstler Coverversionen aufgenommen. Peggy Lee, Elvis Presley, Madonna und Michael Bublé, um nur einige zu nennen, haben alle dies...

Nach dem Ende des 2. Weltkrieges war der Einfluss Amerikas auf Europa sehr stark. In der Musik war der Jazz tonangebend. Große Big Bands, wie die von Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington und Count Basie waren...

Trombone Trio (solo pieces)

Aus der Reihe 'Classics up to date'.

Von diesem Song aus dem Jahr 1956 haben im Laufe der Jahre zahlreiche Künstler Coverversionen aufgenommen. Peggy Lee, Elvis Presley, Madonna und Michael Bublé, um nur einige zu nennen, haben alle dies...

Die bekannte Melodie des RED RIVER VALLEY hat Erwin Jahreis ganz zauberhaft als swingendes Bigband-Boogie-Arrangement bearbeitet. Es erinnert stilistisch an den legendären Glenn Miller.

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