Spartiti difficile Swing

It is an up tempo chart that moves back and forth from the blues form to rhythm changes (AABA). The chart features each of the members of the saxophone section peforming short solos that alternate wit...

Millennium Jump is a blues written in a swing era style. The featured instruments are piano, tenor sax, and trombone, but bass trombone has the final word. Written 'under the influence' of the 'One O'...

Stoppin' Time (a.k.a. Swing Swing Swing) is also from (you guessed it) the musical 'Bring 'Em Back!'. It is written in the style of Benny Goodman's 'Sing Sing Sing'. It has 5 clarinets and features on...

MFYXTPLYX is an exciting up tempo 'tonally outside' swing number featuring drums. After the band unison line...it's all drums!...until the outhead is played. 5/4/4/G/P/B/D. Trumpet Bb. Trombones B. Me...

Commisioned by Martin Murphy Middle School, Morgan Hill, California. Dedicated to one of the greatest entertainers, Sammy Davis Jr. Laid back swing feel muted brass ensemble with a flute lead on the m...

Written for the SCU Fresno 'Statesmen' Big Band. A laid back Basie 'groove' in the style of Ernie Wilkins. Full sounding sax soli. Trumpet or trombone solo, and Piano. Powerful shout chorus. Nothing b...

Medium swing chart. Featuring Trpt, Bone & Piano solos. Nice ensemble writing.

After a brassy intro in 2/4, the chart breaks into a medium fast swing. Although this tune is not a blues, the Tenor & Bone follow blues in Bb patterns for four choruses apiece. Exciting 'sudden death...

Medium swing. Written for Count Basie Band. Has great sax soli. Bone, Tenor & Trpt solos.Recorded by Frank Foster and the S.W.R. Big Band on 'Fresh Taste of Thad Jones...'.

A medium swing tempo rouser, this chart features baritone sax. With a one-measure pick-up break at the end of the intro, the 'big E-flat' states the melody of this B-flat blues, then takes off on its...

This arrangement is part of Frank Foster's Vintage Basie Series, compositions performed and/or recorded by Count Basie and his world famous New Testament orchestra between 1953 and 1960. It's another...

Your big band has just shaken the earth off its foundation with one of your monster flag wavers, now you'd like to cool things down with a somewhat relaxed swinger. Try Katherine The Great. She's also...

The fourth movement of the Count Basie Remembrance Suite, is a medium tempotune whose main purpose is to swing HARD! No tiptoeing through the tulips on this one, please! Although it starts off fairly...

A nice groovy medium tempo piece that swings right along, with solos for 2nd alto sax and 4th trumpet. Based on 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes, the arrangement contains a few 'boppish' licks in the melo...

A 16-bar blues that's just a little too happy to really be bluesy, 'Strut' lopes along with a medium up-tempo swinging motion with several 'two-five' progressions in its harmonic framework. solos by t...

This up-tempo swinger is dedicated to one of Chicago;s finest and one of the world's most fiery tenor saxophonists, Johnny Griffin. The challenging melody, based mostly on 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes...

Written for and featuring acclaimed guitarist George Benson with the Count Basie Orchestra, 'Ready Now' takes us on a swinging mildly up-tempo (but not too up) excursion through some slightly challeng...

A great swinger. A tribute to Basie. Once again available in the original form. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'The Jazz Album' on Sea Breeze Jazz.

A comfortable swing chart w/solos for Soprano & Piano. Alto dbl. on Soprano. Recorded by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass 'Brass Is Back'.

Medium fast swing. Solos for Guitar, Tenor sax and Piano.

Up tempo swinger. Features solo Trbn as performed by Alex Iies w/the Fullerton Jazz Workshop. No Dbls. Recorded by the No. Arizona University Jazz Orchestra.

Up tempo swing shuffle that transforms into a half time funk shuffle for the middle part of the chart a/then back to swing again or the shout chorus. A bass/piano/bari hook recurs throughout the chart...