Partituras de Big Band para profesionales

Up-tempo trombone feature in a minor key. This is a difficult chart but if you have a bone section that's good this will be a good one. Starts with a unison head followed immediatly by a bone soli-las...

A beautiful ballad from the Steve Wiest Big Band library. With a chord progression that is a tip-of-the-hat to Coltrane, Brookmeyer, and Thad Jones, solo trombone (or treble instrument) is featured th...

Written originally for Bill Watrous, this shows off the trombone section with an additional featured soloist. The form is a standard Bb blues with a cycle of fifths bridge (ala rhyhtm changes). Trumpe...

Featuring the bone section, this minor up swing tune has a lot of personality. Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom. Saxes are featured in the 'Super Sax' style (but you won't find this on any Super Sa...

Trombone section feature in a Caribbean feel. Solos for all 3 tenor bones. Opt'l steel drum patch for piano. Great, rhythmic unison soli for whole band. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky...

Fast swing, sax section feature. Begins with an open drum solo, in tempo. Lots of fast unison and soli lines for the sax section. Solo changes in both the tenor 1 and bari. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big...

Great sambas feature for Drums, ensemble written around solo fills.Written for 5 saxes.

Written for Steve Houghton, this composition features the drummer in both delicate, color painting solo situations as well as more powerful ones. There is extensive use of woodwind doublings and brass...

I liked this jazz waltz so much I bought the company! - no wait, thats something else. Composed by Steve Allen, arr by Tom. I did feature myself on this one thank you. This features the soprano sax al...

Even 8th feel (q note = 92). Originally written for Gary Burton, now features soprano sax. A difficult sax soli follows the solo, then an ever-building ensemble section followed by a return to the mel...

Funk high trumpet feature-Maynardian in concept. This is a great vehicle for the trumpet player with a high 'G'.

This chart was written for a premier at the 2002 Verona Jazz Festival and performed by an All Star Big Band. The chart features a solo transcription of Conte Candoli's great solo on There Is Not Great...

In memory of Maynard Ferguson. There will be a wealth of trumpet features dedicated to MF's memory published this year, so here is mine. It is a piece in two sections based on two different moods asso...

Exciting chart is a bravura Trpt feature based on the chord changes Speak Low. Rhythmic feels, include' son Montuna [mambo], samba & Afro-Cuban 6/8, provides contrast. No w/w dbls. Aux. Perc. Desirabl...

Here's a contemporary screamer written for trumpeter Wayne Bergeron. Features the trumpet section with optional 'up the octave' solo parts. Energetic contemporary rhythms and harmonies give your rhyth...

Here is Glenn Miller's ridiculously fast and difficult version of Runnin' Wild. A great chart, but please be warned - it's tough. Our only adaptation has been to score the brass for 8 rather than 6 pi...

Billy May wrote many fine charts during his illustrious career, and this is one of them. Written for the talented, and often underrated Casa Loma Orchestra, this arrangement of Franz von Suppe's Poet...

Once in a while there comes along a chart which just makes you want to listen and weep with joy. This Ted Heath version of Memories of You is one of them. A fabulous feature for two Trumpets , the arr...

Very developed piece, featuring lead alto and bone 1. Alternates between a 12/8 feel and fast samba. Lots of full ensemble writing. Very intense. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big Band on 'To The Sky' on Se...

Bb blues shuffle. Lots of full ensemble. Vamp at beginning for guitar or piano solo. Open blues choruses in the middle, followed by a 12-bar canon for the entire ensemble. Recorded by Ryan Haines Big...

Beautiful, contemporary, 8th note feel. Flugel solo for trumpet 2 and soaring solo for lead trumpet. Opens with a piano or guitar solo. Lots of pretty, full ensemble writing. Recorded by Ryan Haines B...

Up-tempo Db Blues. Open solo choruses. Lots of full ensemble writing. Drum solo trading 4's with entire ensemble.

Fast, phrygian samba feature for 2nd bone, lead alto and trumpet 3. Intro has the brass and saxes acapella. Lots of ensemble playing in this piece. Lines for bass bone, bari sax and bass.

Funk shuffle, based on sharp 9's and diminished harmony. Thick ensemble writing and a challenging bass bone part. Open solo section, with changes for tenor sax, trumpet and bone. Challenging bone soli...

Samba. Composed by George Graham and an arr. By Tom Kubis. Features Trumpet [but of course]. Requires strong lead trumpet. Dbls. Recorded by the George Graham Jazz Orch on Sea Breeze Jazz.