Jazz/Rock and Funk Jazz Ensemble Charts

This quintessential fusion tune is expertly arranged for a big band. This chart pays fond tribute to an American master with passion and a smart, hard edge. All sax parts include optional flute doubles.

Evoking imagery of the boreal landscapes of Alaska and Canada, The North Zephyr draws from the ECM roots of Pat Metheny to create a floating, contemporary straight-eighth feel. An alluring melody

One of the more unique pieces from the Jeff Coffin catalog. Arranged by David Deacon-Joyner, it's a rock/funk/up-tempo tune with some influences from Frank Zappa's music and Jeff Coffin's beard! Includes

A favorite of Jeff Coffin's and everyone who hears it! It's a very catchy melody that happens to be in 17 (or 8 1/2 if preferred). Listeners will hum the melody the first time they hear it. It's like Maceo

This tune has some very wide intervallic leaps in the tenor part and is influenced by Michael Brecker's Delta City Blues. It's a free-blowing piece and is super funky. Arranged by Nashville's

A tricky mixed-meter extravaganza! Twisting and turning like a Moebius strip, this chart was arranged by trumpeter Tyler Mire of the U.S. Navy Band Commodores and offers some exciting melodic and rhythmic

This creative chart is a wild trek through multiple styles and energy levels. Part of the Metroplexity Big Band series, it's reminiscent of modern wind ensemble overtures. Adventures includes a

Here's a hyper funk chart with a groove that just goes and goes! In a nutshell, this is Tower of Power meets Gordon Goodwin. Solo space is provided for alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone and

With its powerful and exciting ensemble passages, this electrifying Fred Sturm arrangement of the Steely Dan classic will wow your audience. It features a 16-bar open solo section allowing for any of your

This Time / Last Year is a gorgeous, lyrical Metheny-style tune in 6/4. Featured are flugelhorn, alto and tenor on a haunting melody accompanied by plenty of ensemble power and a "bring the house

Games is a ferocious funk/fusion chart with a double-time swing bridge. This exciting modern chart features slap bass and solos for alto 1 and guitar. The chart roars to a big ending that will

Matt Harris' funky rock tune includes conservative ranges, fully notated rhythm section parts, and repetitive rhythms, making it playable by advancing groups through professionals. The piano has a solo

Metroliner, with its 16th-note contemporary groove, portrays the chugging and propulsive feel of a train ride through America's northeast corridor. This uniquely funky programmatic chart was

Bob Washut's Beneath the Mask is a very enjoyable, somewhat ECM-style chart for proficient groups that features an even-eighth jazz waltz style that highlights lead alto and guitar

Unavailable for many years, this outstanding and challenging composition for advanced jazz ensembles is back in print! It was originally recorded by Maynard Ferguson on the It's My Time album and features

Here's Gordon Goodwin's slow, funky version of the holiday classic that's very clever with the initial melody line played by bass trombone and bari sax. The tempo is 110 bpm, it has soprano sax

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