Villancicos para Big Band

Good mid-set swinger in a Basie mood, get your band into a Oheartbeat rhythm.O Scored for five saxes, four trumpets, three trombones and rhythm and can be performed with smaller band with four saxes,...

Fast challenging swinger, fun to play ensembles. Scored for five saxes, four trumpets, three trombones and rhythm and can be performed with smaller band with four saxes, three trumpets, two trombones...

Written for, and performed by the Yamaha Virtual Big Band with Steve Gadd & Tom Scott. Up tempo musical swinger with a classic 60's big band sound. Scored for five saxes, four trumpets, three trombone...

Written for, and performed by the Yamaha Virtual Big Band with Steve Gadd & Tom Scott. As the name implies this is a groovinO shuffle. Good hard swinginO ensembles. Scored for five saxes, four trumpet...

Medium fast swinger with great sax soli. Scored for five saxes, four trumpets, three trombones and rhythm and can be performed with smaller band with four saxes, three trumpets, two trombones and rhyt...

This swinging med. blues with it's unusual voicing and surprising ensemble sections avoids sounding like 'just another blues chart'. Bb, bass & contrabass, clarinets, flute dbls. Solos for Tenor. Trpt...

Up tempo swing. 1/4 note = 200. Solo changes in 2nd trumpet. Difficult sax soli. No doubles.

Great up-tempo swing chart. Can be used as a concert opener or closer. Written for Bill Holman. Extensive ensemble writing. Solos for Trpt, Alto & short Drum solo.

Very up tempo swing [ 1/4 note=300 approx.] in that great Florence style. Changes are based on How Deep is the Ocean. Solo space for Alto sax & trpt. Lots of ensemble writing. No dbls. Recorded by Bob...

Medium swing chart. Solo space for piano. Recorded by Bob Florence Limited Edition on Funupsmanship.

Swinger featuring some of the finest ens writing for big band. Some sax dbls.

Based on a 3/4 feeling in various tempos and style. Up tempo 3/4 swinger. Lower instruments have the melody. Some sax dbls. Part one of One, Two, Three.

Swinger featuring the melody from the 'two' baritone sax parts. Some sax dbls.

Straight ahead medium swing featuring both tenor saxes. No doubles.

A waltz. Baritone solo melody and flugelhorn solo. Very gentle for most of the way through. Quarter note = 72 (swing 8th notes). Recorded by the Bob Florence Limited Edition on Serendipity 18 on MAMA...

MM: quarter note = 88. A different treatment done slowly and quietly in a 3/4 swing feel. Solos are written out piano interludes and ad lib piano solo.

A bright blues with a bridge in a swing feel. The solos are by baritone (6) and trumpet. Lead trumpet to high Eb. Half note = 120. The piece is lonog but great for concerts. Recorded by Bob Florence &...

The old 1920's song done as a bright samba and fast swing (half note = 132). Solos are tenor and trumpet.No score.

A medium-fast, hard driving, swinging piece with lots of ensemble and solo space for Trumpet and Alto Sax. Piano intro followed by the whole ensemble leads to the Saxophone section stating the theme....

A rousing, humorous medium swing with solo space for Trombone. The arrangement starts out with two unaccompanied Baritone Saxes stating the theme later joined by the rest of the Sax section. Adding th...

Grammy nominated best instrumental composition for jazz ensemble. A complex piece of extended length. Lots of solo space for Soprano Sax, Trombone, Trumpet and Drums. Mixed meters of 3/2, 6/4, and 4/4...

This is one of Bob Florence's first well-known compositions. It has an 'old timey' dixie-ish vocabulary but definitely swings in a modern style. An easy conception, this chart has a very cool and play...

Straight ahead swinger. Saxes & Guitar state the theme, a soli for Tenors w/Trbns, & solo space w/backgrounds. Re-cap in new key leads to a roaring shout & tag ending. Dbls.

This original composition is based on the beautiful Michel LeGrand melody with a similar title. The piece can optionally start with piano solo alone (written out) stating the melody. The saxes drift i...

Med. up-tempo swinger inspired by Chuck Corea. Melody is stated by small ens before it's turned over the full band. Solo: Tenor, Trpt, Drums & opt'l Bone. Recorded by the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orc...