Jazz Charts with Expanded Instrumentation

A great title and great chart! Chili Today, Hot Tamale is set in a samba groove in cut time at around 90 bpm. It's accessible to a solid easy to medium grade level, there are written

You may think this very clever chart is all swing, but it begins as Latin then alternates with a swing feel. The tempo is bright at around 190-200 bpm with suggested solos for trumpet and tenor sax, a

Lago Del Oeste is a Latin salsa groove with a funky flavor played at around 120 bpm. With a very engaging melody line, written solos for alto and trumpet 2, and a building interlude followed

This catchy mambo is built almost entirely on the rhythmic figure clapped in the first two bars. Its authentic mambo flavor is a blast to play. After two bars of hand claps, it's winds only, then

A driving samba with modest ranges and a fiery sax soli section, Porto Alegre features carefully notated rhythm section parts, suggested piano voicings, a transcribed solo for trombone and/or

Joe Henderson's familiar jazz standard is set here in a Latin groove played at about 156 bpm. The melody is handled by tenor sax, trumpet and guitar with written solos provided for tenor and trumpet. A

Looking for a hot Latin chart? This Victor Lopez original is very hot indeed. It's an Afro-Cuban show-stopper that's jam-packed with lines that bounce section to section, then a suggested

You know it and love it! This Johnny Mandel favorite is one of the best TV/movie themes ever. It's superbly arranged as a Latin bossa with written solos provided for trumpet 2 and alto, a piano montuno

Kris Berg's Spring Break is an exciting samba chart that moves right along at a brisk pace. At around 210 bpm, it features an exciting melody and an accessible solo section over the provided

Take Five  in 4/4 and not 5/4, you say? Yes, and it works just fine in this clever chart on a super classic everyone will recognize. The bossa nova tempo is around 130 bpm and