Don Bowyer: Partituras medio

This blues-rock tune will leave your audience screaming for more. Solos for trumpet, trombone, and alto saxophone. Vocal 'rap' for any member of the band, with a vocal chorus by the entire horn sectio...

Funk tune with an eight-bar swing tag to each chorus. Alto, tenor, trumpet, trombone, and rhythm.

A beautiful ballad feature for soprano (or alto) and bari saxes, featuring gorgeous interplay between the soloists over a bed of lush trombones. Always a crowd favorite. No doubles. First trpt to A ab...

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.

A medium blues with one bar of straight eighth notes. Includes two separate open solo choruses with chords for everyone, and a crowd-pleasing stop-time shout chorus with each section playing a differe...

This blues-rock tune will leave your audience screaming for more. Vocal 'rap' for any member of the band, with a vocal chorus by the entire horn section. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trom...

A tribute to Mingus, this medium almost-blues is full of surprises. Opens with bass solo, then trombone solo, before the first head. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trombone, and rhythm.

A contemporary New Orleans 'street-beat' kicks this old standard into a new gear. In the style of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trombone, and rhythm

This big band funk setting of Henry Purcell's 300-year-old baroque classic provides the missing link for your next concert. Features baritone or alto vocalist, with solos for alto sax, trumpet,and pia...

An exciting Latin tune featuring lead trumpet and lead trombone. Optional parts for claves and congas. No doubles. First trumpet to D above the staff (optional high G above that for the last note). Re...

Beautiful Latin ballad featuring lead trombone. No doubles. First trumpet to A above the staff. Recorded by the Don Bowyer Big Band on 'Itchin In The Kitchen' on Dolphin Dons. See master CD section.

Beautiful Latin ballad featuring trombone. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trombone, and rhythm.

Fast mambo with band shout section (literally). Exciting chart! Lead trumpet to E6. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trombone, and rhythm.

Slow Cuban son feel, allowing everyone to stretch out. Lead trumpet to B5. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trombone, and rhythm.

Latin tune with a songo beat. Alto, tenor, trumpet, trombone, and rhythm.

Medium swing blues tune dedicated to an army reserve officer who went to Baghdad in 2003. Lots of delicious dissonance. Changes for alto and trombone. Exciting three-chorus stop-time section. No doubl...

This beautiful ballad features alto sax throughout, in a 'neo-Kenton' style, complete with rubato piano intro. Six horns: alto, tenor, bari, 2 trumpets, trombone, and rhythm

Piece is written for trombone solo and concert band. A repeating cpercussion theme is used to propel the piece forward. The solo part goes up to C5, and includes jazz improvisation. The band parts inc...

An alto, flugelhorn, or trombone (up to a high D) feature, this medium tempo ballad is the perfect vehicle for showing off a developing soloist. No doubles. First trumpet to C above the staff.

Fast Latin crowd-pleaser with a unison lead for tenor, trumpet, and trombone. No doubles. First trumpet and solo trumpet to B above the staff. Recorded by the Don Bowyer Big Band on 'Itchin In The Kit...

This blues-shuffle features bari sax, trombone, and trumpet. The two-chorus sax soli is challenging but accessible. No doubles. First trumpet to C# above the staff. Recorded by the Don Bowyer Big Band...

This beautiful ballad features alto sax throughout, in a 'neo-Kenton' style. No doubles. First trumpet to C above the staff. Recorded by the Don Bowyer Big Band on 'Itchin In The Kitchen' on Dolphin D...

A contemporary New Orleans 'street-beat' kicks this old standard into a new gear. In the style of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Clarinet. Auxilliary percussion parts for one saxophone and one trumpet. F...

Inspiring 9/8 gospel arrangement; feature for alto sax (plus five saxes.) Big finish will leave the audience shouting. No doubles; lead trumpet to C#6.

Kenton-style ensemble ballad, with trombones/tuba opening and lush piano interlude. Ten brass (five trumpets, four trombones, and tube); tenors double on flute; lead trumpet to F#6.