Villancicos para Big Band

The great Strayhorn tune set in a wonderfully playable chart with Holman's unique, clever approach. There are no unreasonable ranges in this piece, and there is solo space for alto, tenor and trombone...

Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. A superb piece which moves beautifully from a contemporary straight 8th feel to double-time swing and back again. Absolutely the best you...

Sonny Rollins and Bill Holman. What a collaboration this is! A great Rollins jazz standard set for big band by the master. Lots of solo spaces and terrific hard-swinging ensemble sections. Your band a...

There have been a lot of published charts on this tune, but this is the original version as played by and recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra. This chart should be in every jazz band library! Wonder...

This is the real thing, as written for and recorded by the Buddy Rich Band on the Big Swing Face CD. It is a medium-up swing chart that provides plenty of solo space for alto sax (al la Ernie Watts),...

As recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) The Legend, Benny Carter has created a marvelous, quiet, smoky sounding tune ... somewhat in the vain of Whisper Not. This is a wonderful piece...

As recorded by the Bill Holman Band on In A Jazz Orbit, here is his chart on the wonderful Gershwin melody. It is set at a bright, swinging tempo, and it contains solo space for tenor sax, trumpet, tr...

This chart is the exact, original one that Oliver Nelson wrote for his terrific L.A. band on the recording Live From Los Angeles. This was taken directly from his score. A wonderful, laid-back chart!...

This, of course, is Oliver Nelson's best known jazz standard. Here is his OWN fantastic arrangement for big band as recorded on a 1969 LP titled A Dream Deferred (on the Flying Dutchman label). Alto s...

The Maynard Ferguson Band recorded this on their Come Blow Your Horn LP. The chart is an excellent example of Abene's very musical approach to this great Benny Golson jazz standard. Very reasonable ra...

A fun-filled, exciting chart on the old tune. Commissioned as a surprise birthday present for Stan. Trumpet and Trombone solos, and a very clever Holmanesque treatment. Every jazz library should have...

Lennie wrote a magnificent dance book for Stan in the early '60's. This chart was from that period, and it is a full blown jazz chart that really cooks! It has been edited so that it can be played by...

This is another of the many wonderful charts arranged by Lennie for the Stan Kenton Orchestra. He is able to capture the Kenton sound without a lot of high-range problems or difficult concerns for the...

Este gran clásico del jazz de todos los tiempos recibe un nuevo arreglo de la pluma de Roy Phillippe. Es diferente del original de Benny Goodman, tiene buen ritmo y le da un nuevo sonido de los años 9...

Includes solo clarinet part, but no baritone saxophone.

This one truly is wonderful! The band moves along at a nice tempo giving the vocalist plenty of support throughout. Tenor sax and trumpet both solo after the first chorus and then bring the vocalist b...

I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo

No description needed. One of the all time greatest charts recorded by the Buddy Rich Big Band on Burning for Buddy Vol 2. See master Otter CD catalog.

The flutes state the melody in this pretty bossa nova, which demands your best soloist to elegantly negotiate it's appealing chord changes. Sax doubles. As recorded by the Gordon Goodwin Big Phat on '...

James Bond es la esencia de lo "cool", y su personaje sigue intrigando al público de todo el mundo. Este famoso tema es un estándar de jazz por derecho propio, y el arreglo de Tom Davis lo explota al...

Desde que The Bare Necessities se presentó por primera vez en la película clásica El libro de la selva, esta pegadiza melodía se ha mantenido como una favorita familiar. Presentada de nuevo en la pelí...

A shuffle swing vocal chart on an upbeat song with lyrics provided to accommodate female or male vocalists. The tempo is around 142 BPM, with a few stop time sections, no horn solos, just swingin' voc...

¡Esto QUEMA! Con cambios inteligentes de swing a samba, características de la sección de trombones, figuras de swing duro, un solo de saxo de cadera, y enormes gritos de conjunto, este es el escaparat...

This tune was a huge hit for Dean Martin, and the same version was more recently covered by Robbie Williams on his 'Swing When You're Winning' album. We have transcribed the original chart here, and i...

La melodía estándar de Irving Berlin se puso de nuevo en el mapa con la escena clásica de la película de Mel Brooks "El jovencito Frankenstein". Este ingenioso arreglo alterna entre el ritmo de 2 tiem...