Partituras de Big Band para profesionales

This chart is the one that won Paul Ferguson the coveted IAJE Gil Evans Fellowship Award. It is a terrific 'down-home, dirty' blues-ish chart which swings and swings! The chart begins with a 'bluesy'...

As commissioned (and recorded) by the SWR Big Band of Stuttgart, Germany, this chart was inspired by the birth of the Curnows' newest grandchild. It opens with a shout, and settles into a free-swingin...

As written for and performed by the Buddy Rich Big Band, here is the long-missing chart that Holman wrote to feature The Great One..... Buddy Rich. It is a terrific, swinging chart with solo space, no...

There may not be a more beautiful ballad anywhere in jazz ensemble literature. This is an alto saxophone feature throughout and was recorded on the Full Nelson album and also included in the Verve Jaz...

Another great chart from Maynard Ferguson's Birdland Dream Band Library. If you want to feature 2 trumpets, it doesn't get any better than this! Printed as originally scored (4-4-2-3), but including e...

This is one of the amazing stories of finding what was thought to be a long-lost chart. After extensive research, it turned up as an untitled set of parts in the North Texas Kenton archives. We are pr...

This is another one of those absolutely wonderful charts that Lennie did for Stan Kenton for what was known as the dance book. It was the hippest dance book ever! A medium-swing tempo sets this great...

Here is a terrific medium swing chart, also written for Stan Kenton in the 50s. Although it was never recorded commercially by the band, it was played a great deal in live performances throughout the...

When Bill Holman writes a feature for a player, especially in the Kenton Band, you know it will be wonderful. He wrote this one to feature the amazing trombonist Carl Fontana. Sierra Music dedicates t...

Here is another terrific chart as recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on Adventures In Standards. Lennie sets the chart at a very fast, swinging pace, using countermelodies, a 6-horn group in places...

Mulligan's writing for the Kenton Band was fairly minimal in quantity but extraordinary in quality. He had a profound effect on the band and the writers to follow him. This composition was recorded in...

Here is a classy transcription of Frank Sinatra's version of Night and Day, taken down by Jon Harpin from the original Nelson Riddle chart. The Riddle touch is much in evidence, with much of the figur...

ADAPTED FROM THE RECORDING BY FRANK SINATRA ARRANGED BY NELSON RIDDLE Here's another classic Nelson Riddle arrangement from the Frank Sinatra 1956 Capitol Record 'Songs for Swingin' Lovers.' Like the...

AS RECORDED BY NAT KING COLE ARRANGED BY BILLY MAY We're pleased to publish a fine Billy May arrangement done for Nat King Cole. 'When Your Lover Has Gone' comes from the 1957 May/Cole collaboration o...

Too Darn Hot was written by Cole Porter for the 1948 musical 'Kiss Me Kate' and was featured by Ella Fitzgerald on her Cole Porter Songbook album, with the original arrangement by Buddy Bregman. We ha...

Der 'Klarinettenmuckl' kommt in diesem Big Band-Arrangement als Swing-Version mit Saxophon-Solo daher. Fantastisch umgesetzt, wunderbar fetzig und einfach spaßig: 'Saxofon-Muckl'.

Este alegre swinger alterna entre un ritmo de 2 y 4 tiempos. Su grupo estará en control de crucero, ya que no hay solos... sólo un conjunto muy animado con cambios de tonalidad que aumentan la emoción...

1st Trpt. written top note: C#3 Dieser Titel wurde von Heinz Gietz 1957 für Caterina Valente komponiert und wurde in den 70er Jahren oft in den großen Samstagabend-Musikshows als Opener oder Abspannmu...