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As recorded on the album The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess (featuring the Bill Potts Big Band), this chart swings hard, but it isn't hard to play. Bill arranged this in a wonderful contrapuntal fashion....

As recorded on the new CD 'The Bill Holman Band Live', this chart is a vibrant, clever, swinging original. It was Bill's opening tune at the I.A.J.E. conference concert, and the audience went nuts for...

As recorded on the new CD 'The Bill Holman Band Live', this chart features two tenor saxophone players throughout, playing together and separately. This is the ideal solo vehicle for your tenor player...

This was recorded on the Stan Kenton Orchestra CD Live at the Tropicana. This is a very hip version of the old jazz standard. It is set at a moderate swing tempo, and there is solo space for trumpet,...

As recorded on the new CD 'Hommage', Holman has written a witty, musical, fun-filled 'fantasy' on the well-known American tune (as in 'You are my....') with lots of space for creative playing, and the...

What a marvelous chart this is! The 'engine' which keeps on going is a 4-bar vamp in the rhythm section. It occurs throughout the piece and ties everything together beautifully. Set in a bright swingi...

As recorded on 'Tonight Show Band, Vol. 1' (Amherst), Holman has set this wonderful standard in a hard-driving swing, with lots of great ensemble section writing. The piece features a challenging trum...

As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on Once More With Feeling (Amherst), this wonderful chart is the hottest flag-waver of all time. Holman starts things out with the trumpet section's call to arms,...

As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on Once More With Feeling (Amherst), this bright, swinging chart is a blast ! Bill Holman is at his best, weaving descending unison lines with the tune stated by t...

As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on Once More With Feeling (Amherst), this is one of Tommy's classic charts .... swinging, inventive and just plain wonderful. The arrangement moves through a serie...

As recorded on 'Tonight Show Band, Vol. 2' (Amherst), Holman has created a warm and wonderful chart on this superb standard. Set in a 'swingy ballad' feel, it features a short trumpet solo (in the 1st...

This wonderful chart is recorded on 'Tonight Show Band, Vol. 2' (Amherst). Once again, Holman takes a fresh look at a great standard tune. Although the piccolo, flute and clarinet doubles make this a...

This piece was never recorded by the Pat Metheny Group. It was 'lost in history' until discovered on a 1985 radio transcription. Pat says this was written for a gig with Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins a...

This was written for Doc Severinsen to premier at the Midwest Band & Orchestra Conference. It is a bright, swinging chart that features trumpet throughout (of course). This can be performed with an ou...

If you're familiar with the great chart on I Can't Stop Loving You that was created for the Basie Band, then you know what this one is about. This tune is set in a heavy shuffle feel, with lots of Bas...

This is a fast-paced, swinging opening movement, with lots of solo space for alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet and drums. There is also plenty of high-powered ensemble playing throughout. This serves as a...

Bill Perkins recorded this stunning, swinging arrangement with the Metropole Orchestra. Although there is solo space for tenor saxophone, the real 'star' of this arrangement is the whole ensemble. Rob...

If you're familiar with the great chart on "I Can't Stop Loving You" that was created for the Basie Band, then you know what this one is about. This tune is set in a heavy shuffle feel, with lots of B...

With a nod to the wonderful David Maddux arrangement written for First Call, Bob has created a gorgeous version for big band. Every jazz band needs Christmas charts to perform. This one is beautiful i...

This magnificent scoring of Carol of the Bells by Rich DeRosa (professor of composition/arranging at University of North Texas) was part of a long overture originally commissioned by the WDR Big Band,...

Rich DeRosa, profesor de composición de jazz en la Universidad del Norte de Texas, aporta otro maravilloso arreglo navideño al catálogo de Sierra Music. El delicioso y contemporáneo arreglo de DeRosa...

Rich DeRosa continues to amaze us with his clever arrangements of traditional Christmas songs. This time, he has incorporated this Christmas favorite with a Wayne Shorter style/ feel, and the result i...

It would be difficult to find a more perfect holiday concert opener than this new arrangement by Rich DeRosa. It begins with a powerful and jubilant fanfare introduction that melds seamlessly into a f...

The 1961 Capitol Records recording of Christmas music was a smash hit for Kenton. It contained arrangements by Kenton and (mostly) Ralph Carmichael of traditional Christmas music. This particular arra...

The 1961 Capitol Records recording of Christmas music was a smash hit for Kenton. It contained arrangements by Kenton and (mostly) Ralph Carmichael of traditional Christmas music. This particular arra...