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As originally recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) Kansas City Suite - the Music of Benny Carter, this is an up- tempo swing chart featuring solos for tenor saxophone, trumpet and pia...

As originally recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) Kansas City Suite - the Music of Benny Carter, this is a medium-up Swing chart that everyone will love to play. The saxophones get a...

As originally recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) Kansas City Suite - the Music of Benny Carter, this is a medium tempo Swing chart featuring solos for tenor saxophone, trumpet and p...

As originally recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) Kansas City Suite - the Music of Benny Carter, this is a fast Swinger that will be a lot of fun for your band. Tight, rhythmic ensem...

Here is another chart written for Stan Kenton (in the mid-1950's), that was never recorded by the band. It is a sensational piece, a real flag-waver which features alto saxophone from top to bottom. G...

Written for and recorded by the Buddy Rich Band on the Big Swing Face CD, this wonderful chart features trumpet (a la Bobby Shew on the CD) and alto saxophone (a la Quinn Davis on the CD). Alto Sax 2...

This is the first movement of the three-part suite titled 'The Big Street' which was recorded on the album 'The Fabulous Bill Holman' in 1957. Set in a medium-up Swing tempo/Feel, this piece is a wond...

This is the second movement of the three-part suite titled 'The Big Street' which was recorded on the album 'The Fabulous Bill Holman' in 1957. It is a slow Swing Feel with a wonderful melody. Wonderf...

This is the third movement of the three-part suite titled 'The Big Street' which was recorded on the album 'The Fabulous Bill Holman' in 1957. This is a Fast Swing, with solo space for 2 Tenor Saxes a...

Boy, you talk about a wonderful Trombone Feature .... this is IT ! It has been recorded by trombonists Jiggs Whigham and Andy Martin, and will certainly go down as one of the best Trombone features ev...

This amazing work was commissioned by the I.A.J.E, ASCAP and the Dizzy Gillespie Commissions and was premiered at the IAJE Conference in New York City. It is a piece approximately 12 minutes in length...

Recorded on the Hawthorne Nights LP (PABLO) by Zoot Sims, and a wonderful cast of players, this is a neat, medium swing tune which features tenor sax (naturally). The tune starts out with a sort of to...

There were a number of sensational charts written in the 50's for the Bill Holman Band and the Terry Gibbs Band. This is one of them! A great original by Holman, with lots of solo space. Bill Holman w...

This is a bright, up-tempo chart in a contemporary framework. Solos for tenor and trumpet lead to a powerful, swinging shout chorus. A 16-bar drum solo leads into a repeat of the shout before returnin...

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...

This chart is from the I REMEMBER BILL - a tribute to Bill Evans CD arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky! All of these incredible pieces require a mature band, soloists and woodwind doublers. Althoug...

West Chester University, PA ...... (Bob Curnow's alma mater) commissioned this new piece to feature the trombone section (and individual players) of the Criterions, and that is what happens with this...

Les comes up with another sensational showpiece for your band. The brass ranges are very reasonable. Lots of solo space for whomever you wish to feature. A great Opener for a festival appearance! 5-4-...

Shades opens with a drum solo (brushes on snare) in a medium tempo and swings on from there. There is a trombone, alto saxophone and piano solo in this first movement. There are also drum solos which...

Neil Slater, the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas, is a superb composer. This chart is one of the many things he has written for and recorded with the North Texas One O'Clock...

A wonderfully quiet, pensive piece which fills a big void in today's big band jazz literature. Somewhat akin to Hefti's classic Li'l Darlin', but very original in concept. There is solo space for teno...

There has been an illegal lift of this chart available before, but this chart is the exact, original one that Oliver Nelson wrote for his terrific L.A. band on the recording Live From Los Angeles. Thi...

This piece was taken from Nelson's original score. This is not a watered down version. It is exactly as recorded on the Verve Jazz Masters 48 CD. This is a clever, bright, swinging chart which feature...

This piece was taken from Nelson's original score. This chart is exactly as recorded on the Verve Jazz Masters 48 CD. There aren't many charts in this category ..... classic, one-of-a-kind, trend-sett...

This piece was taken from Nelson's original score. Exactly as recorded on the Verve Jazz Masters 48 CD. This is a clever, highly original rendition of the traditional melody. It was written to feature...