Big Band Plus

This Afro-Funk in our new BIG BAND+ SERIES features, in addition to the standard 5/4/4/4 instrumentation, optional parts for flute, clarinet, French horn, marimba, and aux. percussion. A real audience...

La Curandera Negrita is basically a minor blues. Though this piece is written in 6/8, it is perhaps more accurately felt in a lilting triplet divided 4/4-with the dotted quarter receiving the pulse of...

Basie's Blues is a rousing medium tempo big band chart which also functions as a Basie-style piano feature. Arranger Russell Schmidt has crafted a unique three-horn harmonization (+ optional flute and...

A medium up standard based on Easy to Love. Uses similar chord changes to Easy to Love. Set in a relaxed swing feel, this piece has solo space for drums, trumpet and tenor sax (optional written solos...

Amen is a medium up-tempo gospel-swing, influenced by Horace Silver's The Preacher. Mike Titlebaum underlaid the bluesy melodies, developed throughout the arrangement, with a driving shuffle rhythm, f...

This medium swing chart features a beautifully harmonized sax section soli. It is perfect for a change of pace in any program and it gives your brass section a chance to rest. Instead of the written t...

This is an orchestration of Clare Fischer's version found on the recording Latin Pattern. The piano introduction is Clare's from the recording Alone Together. The piano then starts the latin groove se...

Rock On is written in a medium-up tempo Rock-Boogaloo style. The solo section features the tenor saxophone but can be opened up for any instrument. The very easy solo changes and the style are ideal t...

Opening with a spicy Latin groove, this zesty theme switches midway through to a solid swing feel that carries the chart to a dramatic close. Written or ad lib solo space is assigned to baritone sax.