Ladd McIntosh: spartiti medio

Skunktown Beanery is written for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones and begins with a jaunty rhythmic interplay with the baritone pitted against the three other voices. The interplay continu...

Contemporary song form in a 'Pop' Latin style. Repetitive hook is fun to work out & gives this chart real energy. Some beautiful solo Alto sax & guitar spots. Opt'l dbls.

Rough & tumble piece that speaks of the stark, ridiculously inadequate kitchen in which Ladd prepared a sumptuous meal. The setting was idyllic; the kitchen was FUNKY. Explosive. Bari sax or Guitar so...

Nasty Funk. Good unison dialogue. Haunting Alto & Guitar line. Solos for Tenor & Guitar. Nice full unison lines in low brass & reeds.

Alto sax feature. Written for Phil Woods. Plenty Latin. Dbl.. Easy clarinet Dbls. Recorded by Northern Arizona Univ Jazz Ensemble, 'Herding Cats' on Sea Breeze Jazz.

Written for & performed by the legendary Clark Terry. Happy swing chart.

Easy swing. Roaring 'flag-waver'. Easy changes and a great closer. Solos for Piano, Trpt & Bone. Dbls.

A swinger. It's straight ahead. No weird stuff. AND IT SWINGS LIKE MAD. Very catchy melody & great changes.

SATB. QUARTETS. Score and parts.

A mixture of the old & new! This chart has a challenging modern melodic line, while the backgrounds are highly suggestive of the old 'boogie-woogie' style. An exciting chart for your audience. Open so...

Old time shuffle. Bluesy, rompin', stompin', chart. Open solo section. Recorded by Ladd's Big Band on Sea Breeze Jazz.

Fun rock chart. Quirky, animated melody in unison saxes. Brass may be played down an octave at the end by younger bands. Excellent rhythmic study for sax players.

Title is the answer to the joke definition of 'Country Rock'. But this chart ain't coCountry & it certainly isn't rock, though it does have some of the hippest country licks you're going to hear. Exce...

Lush Flugel/Bone pads in this Funk & Latin chart. Your band will have fun working out the excellent contrapuntal weaving of 4 different lines. Marvelous ostenato bass. Dbls. Solos for Tenor, Trpt & op...

The Woman with the Laughing Eyes. Wonderful Latin chart. Features Flugel or Alto solo. Excellent Latin rhythms & some real fun lines & exquisite lush voicings. Recorded by Ladd's Big Band on Sea Breez...

Companion piece to 'The Queef Mobile'. Joyful bluesy romper. Excellent melodic line. Easy changes. Recorded by Ladd's Big Band on Sea Breeze Jazz.

Features challenging tutti unison line. Alternates between Latin 2 feel & down & dirty funk. Excellent jazz changes.

Ladd evokes the breath-taking Northern Calif. Coast in this stunning new work. Alto solo. Lush chords that seem to just hover. Some dbls.Recorded by the Ladd McIntosh Big Band on 'Ride the Wild Beast'...

Laid back funk. Great changes. Open solo section. Dbls.

323 measures of spirited music. Not too difficult. Solos; Tenor, Bone & your choice of any other sax.

3 kinds of funk. End has animated unison sax line, Bone punches & staccato Trpt blasts added in layers, building to powerful climax. Alto & Guitar solos.

Very hip funk chart. Good feel! A bit more challenging than the rest in this series but well within the limitations of the easy-med. level. Rich, full-voiced chords. Simple jazz changes. Can be played...

Slow, laid-back gritty blues. Features guitar & anyone else. Steaming intensity. Limited trumpet range.

Slow half time Latin w/sensual haunting Tenor solo. Bass solo written out. Trpt to high C, Dbls.

Ballad for Tenor sax solo. Evocative & lush w/a uniquely beautiful melody. Horn parts are easy: solo part is medium. Piano voicings written out. Recorded by Ladd's Big Band on Sea Breeze Jazz.