Jazz/Rock and Funk Jazz Ensemble Charts

Here is the trombone section feature you've been looking for! The Sing, Sing, Sing style and ensemble writing will give your trombones plenty to sink their teeth into. The lead trumpet range

This irresistible chart has all the creativity and jazz craftsmanship we have come to expect from Mike Tomaro. How does a swing tune with a half-time rock groove sound for creativity? Solo changes for alto

Here's a laid-back, fun, and hip shuffle that swings hard. With an infectious head, great unison writing, and a swinging sax soli, this chart will be an impressive and easygoing addition to your concert

This swinging original is everything you're looking for in a hip and accessible chart to teach young players the foundations of big band playing from form to style. A must-have!

Not the Mr. T you were envisioning! This time the "T" stands for tenor sax and trumpet. This swinging chart is an excellent showcase for your stand-out tenor and trumpet players with a swinging duet section

As you can guess by the title, this chart is a hard-swinging tune that shows off your drummer - and it's highly accessible to even developing ensembles. Great scoring, comfortable ranges, and hard-swinging

The main portion of this chart is a slow swing similar to Slide Hampton's Frame for the Blues, but it is interspersed with vignettes that use all the colors of the contemporary jazz ensemble.

A crazy title and chart to match! This is definitely not your cookie-cutter laid-back swing tune. Phat chords and great voicings along with the distinct and gritty color of low saxes doubled with low brass

Engage your ensemble and make swing their thing with this superb chart from Doug Beach! An open solo section gives an opportunity to working on improv technique with all of your members. Be sure to add this

Let your baritone sax player show off with this chart! This swing tune with featured solo has a dark yet curious feeling to it that your musicians will have a great time playing. 

Kris Berg's annual chicken chart has arrived! It's a very accessible rock groove played around 146 bpm and features written-out solo opportunities for all saxes and all brass along with a lead trumpet range

This laid-back gospel-style rock tune starts with a duet between alto sax and trumpet before the rest of the band gets cranking. The solo section features space for written or improvised solos from alto sax

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

This is the show closer that will bring down the house! The main groove is a funky boogaloo at about 103 bpm, plus a band chant, a swing section, and a gospel feel. Flexible solo space with written

Yes, this is for real! Queen's magnum opus, in a jazz language, orchestrated for big band, with jazz solos for trombone (also cued in trumpet 5/flugelhorn) and alto or bari sax thrown in for good measure.

Slow, bluesy and vampy!  Here's the title chart as recorded on Gordon Goodwin's CD The Phat Pack. Things to enjoy: it's kind of greasy, it's full of twists and turns, calls for brass plunger