Blues and Swing Jazz Ensemble Charts

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

Want something new and different for your young jazz ensemble? Take a look at this chart on Roland Kirk's Serenade to a Cuckoo! It's a quality swing chart with a little humor and a catchy

Mercer Ellington's classic blues shuffle gets the Baylock treatment! The style is down home and the solos are for alto, trumpet, trombone, and tenor sax.  Also included is a powerful

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,

Erik Morales has created a hot arrangement of this Bobby Timmons jazz classic! It's an exciting jazz waltz played at about 174 bpm. The melody is initially handled by alto, trumpet 2 and guitar with a

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

With a wonderful melody by the brilliant composer Billy Strayhorn, this arrangement by Mike Kamuf is superb and includes suggested or improvised solos for trumpet, tenor sax, and trombone.

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

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

The original score of Billy Strayhorn's Pentonsilic has been faithfully edited here by Jeff Lindberg. One of Strayhorn's finest works, the tempo is bright at 208 bpm and there is 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 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 chart kicks! It's a shuffle at around 166 bpm and is a feature for two tenor saxes. This is not a duel, but a vehicle to showcase both tenor players. Sample tenor solos are provided, the

Wow! If Nat Adderley could hear this chart on his iconic jazz standard, he would be pleased! The first statement stays very close to the original, which is a good thing. The solos are for written or

For developing groups, this moderate swing chart by master composer Lennie Niehaus features exciting bebop lines with the melody stated at first by a duet of alto sax and trumpet, an open written

A Little Minor Setback is a slower swing chart built on an extended 16-bar minor blues. This relaxed original shifts between two and four feels to create subtle contrasts within the swing style,

Mike Tomaro just takes his time in unfolding this outstanding study on the blues for big band! At around 60 bpm, it begins with a laidback solo piano introduction joined by a trumpet soloist leading to the

Here's a chance to place your hard working bassist in the spotlight! Suitable for electric or acoustic bass, the solo part is completely written with chord symbols provided. There's an optional section for