Jazz Combo Charts

A rock version of one of the most famous Christmas carols, it features flexible instrumentation and a funky groove in the rhythm section that will energize your students and audience! Even though it is

This breezy, up-tempo bossa nova or laid-back samba flows with great sax parts throughout. There is some great interplay between the melody and a slick countermelody and a solo for the alto sax. Then some

Titles include: Birth of the Blues; Honeysuckle Rose; Ja Da; Rock-a-Bye Your Baby; Ain't Misbehaving; Yes Sir, That's My Baby; Struttin' With Some Barbeque; Ain't We Got Fun; Sweet Georgia

Titles include: Chicago; My Melancholy Baby; Who's Sorry Now; Alexander's Ragtime Band; St. Louis Blues; Maple Leaf Rag; Down By the Riverside; Beale St. Blues; The Stars and Stripes

Do you ever have requests for your group to play some New Orleans music? Or maybe you simply want to introduce your students to this traditional and fun style. This accessible collection of ten favorite and

This up-tempo combo piece is great for expanding the playing ability of those who have the drive to work on improvisation. This work is stylistically a swing and is a good opportunity to put some focus on

This is a great introduction to the inner workings of the jazz idiom. A simple melodic line is developed throughout this combo chart, allowing soloists to communicate with each other and their audience.

Written with the idea to use contemporary jazz harmonies, with no V-I cadences, but still accessible to developing jazz artists, Modern Swing is a great change of pace tune to add to your

A long-stemmed rose may well come in handy for this cheeky tune. Warning: We Tango Tonight, with its sinewy melody, will stick with you long after you play it, and your audiences may request an

This small-group chart is based on the big-band chart Mambo over the Mountain, also by Rick Hirsch. The inspiration for this one is based on the great mambos of Spanish Harlem and includes a catchy

Flexibly scored for many combinations of horns and rhythm section, and playable with as few as one horn and rhythm section, Git-Down Time is a catchy New Orleans street beat chart that's very

Jazz Combo Plus is an innovative, performance-ready collection featuring six original charts for small jazz groups. Additional features include flexible instrumentation with three parts in each

A medium bright swinger at around 160 bpm at the medium grade level, this dynamic chart is scored for tenor sax, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, guitar, and drums. Solo space is included for all

Here's an excellent contrast piece for your sextet! This head chart with solo background figures is a straight-up rock chart with an altered blues structure. The instrumentation is alto, tenor, and trombone

12 original arrangements for Dixieland band! Titles include: When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet, Tweet, Tweet); The New Dixieland Parade; Little Rock Getaway; It Don't

Includes: Basin Street Blues; Copenhagen; High Society; King Porter Stomp; Maple Leaf Rag; Milenberg Joys; Sugar Foot Stomp; Weary Blues and When the Saints Go Marchin' In. Also included