Partituras de Big Band para profesionales

Written by Cole Porter for his 1953 musical 'Can-Can', this Ella Fitzgerald chart is an up-tempo, hard swinging version (originally scored by Buddy Bregman for her Cole Porter Songbook album) with a c...

Gene Krupa recorded over eighty tracks for Capitol Records in 1946-1947. These sessions were later released, along with over sixty Harry James tracks, as the Capitol Vaults Jazz Series. Included in th...

Nestico-Style Medium Swing. As recorded by Rainer Tempel Bigband on 'Vorwärts & Zurück' Solos: Posaune Doublings: 1 Flöte

Every band from Tommy Dorsey to the Tonight Show Band to Ted Heath seemed to have a version of this great Sy Oliver tune. Bob Curnow compiled some of those versions into one great, new arrangement. It...

Anyone familiar with Benny Carter's music knows what to expect ....... the highest quality, lovely melodies or swinging tunes that lift you out of your seat. This piece is a part of the CD The Legend,...

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...

This chart was recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on the CD I Told You So. This is yet another terrific Holman chart written for that band! A medium-tempo swing chart which features, among other th...

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...

This chart was a staple in the Buddy Rich Big Band library for a long time, spinning off of the incredible excitement of that band. Recorded on the CD Swingin' New Big Band by Buddy, this chart starts...

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...

This may well be the most popular of Hank Levy's scores for the Kenton Band. It is written in 6/8, and is certainly more accessible to most players than other charts of Hank's. It was recorded on the...

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...

This is one of Bob Florence's first well-known compositions. It has an 'old timey' dixie-ish vocabulary but definitely swings in a modern style. An easy conception, this chart has a very cool and play...

This composition is a trumpet feature written for jazz stylist Steve Huffsteter. Its tempo is medium-slow swing with soloist playing the tuneful melody. Solo section is double-time swing with plenty o...

Copyrighted in 1915, this popular tune was subsequently recorded by Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, and was a huge hit for Louis Prima in 1956. This laid back 2014 arrangement switches bet...

Another one to feature the bones. This one's a swinger. Trumpet 1 to written high C. 5/4/4/P/B/D with optional 5th trumpet, 5th bone, & vibes. Medium.

Exciting feature for trombone or tenor sax (as either a guest soloist with the band or as Trombone 1 or Tenor 1). Begins with the soloist playing over a full ensemble rubato chorale and moves quickly...

Great medium swing treatment of this catchy favorite tune. Open section with chords for all to solo. Big ensemble! 1st trumpet G top of staff. Scored for a/t/b,2tpts., 1 bone & rhythm. Medium. Little...