Blues and Swing Jazz Ensemble Charts

A real jazz classic, this chart kicks! The features include a medium swing style, a written or improvised solo for tenor sax, meaningful ensemble passages, exceptional soli lines, superb phrases, and a

Here's a Patrick Williams tour-de-force arrangement for jazz ensembles! The grand introduction has optional woodwind doubles for piccolo, flute and clarinet along with the optional horn in F

The Sun Will Shine Today is a flexible solo feature at around 180 bpm with standard instrumentation plus optional horn in F parts. Originally scored for clarinet, it includes feature

After the initial statement, Greg Yasinitsky gives this Benny Goodman treasure an updated and contemporary flair while remaining true to the original. It's all there in this exciting chart... nice

This arrangement of a Stanley Turrentine signature tune is not difficult at all, but it sounds very sophisticated! The swingin' melody is initially handled by tenor 1 and trombone 1 and the tempo is around

Night Cruiser is an original swing chart featuring a saucy melody with interesting backgrounds. The tempo is around 148 bpm, the solo is written or ad lib for trombone 1, and the trumpet

Take this familiar folk song with its natural melodic swing, add a New Orleans style swing feel at a tempo of 158 bpm, create nice interplay between the rhythm section and horns, make it

Here's a medium swinger on this iconic Cole Porter standard with an easygoing feel at about 132 bpm. Featuring great ensemble passages as well as written or improvised solos for tenor sax,

Craig Skeffington begins his chart on this Gershwin classic with a cool rubato intro featuring flugelhorn and saxes without the rhythm section. After the introduction the chart turns into a hot swinger,

Beginning at 130 bpm, this chart moves to double-time swing and then into a samba groove with solo space for piano and trumpet 4. Sophisticated and beautifully arranged, this arrangement features creative

Here's a beautiful tune treated as a loose-swinging jazz waltz at around 155 bpm. The initial melody is stated by tenor and trumpet, then add a hot sax section soli, and written or ad lib solos for

You don't want to miss this title track chart from Gordon Goodwin and the Big Phat Band's CD! Your advanced jazz ensemble will groove at around 96 bpm with swing sixteenths and solo

This Peter Blair chart on the Neal Hefti/Count Basie classic is a wonderful adaptation for younger jazz groups. It does its Basie thing with a light and cool swing feel, includes nice changes in

Wow, this accessible swing chart has it all... a medium-up tempo, cool melodic lines, textural variety, mature harmonies, easy brass ranges, written or ad lib solos for tenor 1 and trombone 1, and a highly

This Mike Collins-Dowden swing-style original features a hip melody, interesting call-and-response passages between the saxes and brass, nice dynamic contrasts, a written or improv solo for trumpet, and

This Aric Schneller arrangement is a burnin' swing chart on the Cole Porter jazz standard. Great energy is created with the 180 bpm tempo, the solo space for Alto Sax 1, and a fierce unison horn interlude.

Eric Richards presents an excellent swing chart for a strong band! Set at 184 bpm, it opens with a small group contrafact and includes some solo space for alto, trombone, and piano, followed by a

As recorded by the Big Phat Band, you've got your basic flag-waving, barn-burning, straight-ahead swing chart here, and believe it or not, it's not all that hard to play! Sure, it's a challenge, but

In the style of Sammy Nestico and Count Basie, this medium swing chart is full of nuances. Included is solo space for all saxes, trumpet 4, and trombone 1. At about 110 bpm, this is truly a wonderful chart

This is an outstanding, swingin' chart from master arranger Dave Wolpe on this Gene DePaul classic! It's a great tune set at around 152 bpm, with fat ensemble voicings, nice solis, written solos

If you know the music of the brilliant composer Billy Strayhorn, you will love this chart! It's an outstanding arrangement with a clever melody that seriously swings all the way. There are written

This big band standard made famous by Tommy Dorsey gets an updated treatment with a funky groove alternating with a swing feel at around 170 bpm. This is a clever and effective treatment of this

You know this great Mancini standard, but check out how the chart goes back and forth from F to A-flat. The swing feel is around 148 bpm, the solos are written for trumpet 2 and alto, the lead trumpet hits

Open any concert with this swingin' chart that will make your audience sit up and take notice! With a tempo of 208 bpm or faster, written solo space for tenor and trumpet 2, a lead trumpet range