Walrus Music Publishing

Sensitive ballad filled with rich harmonies. Scored for A,T,B, 2 Trpts, 1 Bone & Rhy.

Ballad. 1/4 note = 76. Feature for alto (or opt flugelhorn, alternate parts included). Beto's Ellington-esque tribute to altoist Johnny Hodges. Scored for A,T,B, 2 Trpts, 1 Bone & Rhy.

A beautiful ballad feature for alto and bari saxes, featuring gorgeous interplay between the soloists. Always a crowd favorite. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, brombone, and rhythm.

This is a beautiful jazz ballad featuring tenor saxophone throughout its entirety. A lyrical melody uniquely suited for tenor saxophone sets the tone for this lovely showcase for your tenor soloist. T...

A modern style 'even eighth' ballad, featuring solos for tenor sax and piano. This piece covers a wide range of dynamics, numerous inner lines and color changes build to a climactic ensemble soli. A g...

A wonderful balled feature for trombone. A combination of rubato trombone and piano, and ever-changing ensemble colors makes this a wonderful showcase for the soloist. Blowing changes are for bass (sh...

Movement 4 of The Story of Langston. Opening with a horn coral this ballad features Flugelhorn and Baritone. Many colour shifts take place harmonically creating a fulfilling tension and release that m...

Medium jazz ballad. A lush, soft ensemble leading to a flugel solo. A bass solo with woodwind background and piano solo follows. Ending with ensemble and flugel. A quiet beauty! Tpt written B above st...

Bone feature ballad waltz. Lush backgrounds provide an ideal canvas to showcase your trombonists full sound and a swinging double time solo section showcases his chops. Scored for Alto, Tenor, Bari, 2...

A ballad for your male baritone singer, this song evokes all the great romance of the 1940s. A short flugelhorn introduction is later followed by a brief tenor solo. All saxes double on flutes, and al...

Style: ballad with double time swing middle section/ Tempo: quarter =80/ scored for: 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 saxes (flute and clarinet doublings) alternate parts provided with no doubling, female v...

This is a pretty rock ballad that features the lead trumpet. The real high trumpet stuff at the end may be played down an octave. Recorded by the Kubis Big Band on Jazz Musicians Christmas on Sea Bree...

A brief chorale-like introduction sets up this beautifully mysterious Bob Florence ballad feature for piano. Backgrounds and ensemble figures should remain barely above a whisper. The chorale is re-st...

A haunting ballad that features bari sax. Transitions to double-time for the solo section. Scored for Alto, Tenor, Bari, 2 Trumpets. 1 Bone, Piano, Bass, Drums and Guitar. Lead Trumpet written to Db a...

Composed by Reed Kotler - Ballad. Scored for Flugelhorn and Rhythm section.

Gerry Mulligan's composition 'A Ballad,' originally done on the same 1953 session as 'Westwood Walk,' has a George Shearing-esque piano-guitar-bass statement on the theme, which is then handled with w...

A medium tempo trumpet blues in B flat feature, starting with cup mute then plunger then open. Woodwinds are clarinets and bass clarinet switching to saxes. As recorded by George Graham Big Band 'With...

Funk-blues feel, features guitar. No doubles. Medium difficult.

This broken shuffle comes straight out of the 1950's style of Art Blakey. This is a great feature for trumpet and tenor, as they state most of the melody and are featured as soloists. The harmony is f...

This blues is a great introduction to second line for a high school big band. It alternates between a New Orleans groove and swing. The melody is a simple riff blues, but the regular blues chords have...

This blues with a bridge intertwines a number of 'Gershwin-esque' themes. Solos for tenor and trumpet. Lead also doubles flute and lead tenor doubles soprano. Some drum solo space at the end. An up te...

This was originally written for a band with two drummers to feature but there's an additional part for just one to play the whole chart. It's an up tempo modal tune but it's kind of a blues form and t...

A medium blues feature for baritone sax and trombone. Theme played by baritone and trombone amidst a contrasting 'non-blues' texture within the band.

This chart is uptempo Bb blues with bridge (though needn't be as uptempo as Rob Parton took it!) Written for the Illinois All-State Jazz Band and played by all its District Jazz Bands, too. As recorde...