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Alfred Publishing Belwin Division

It's always good programming to include a ballad and here's a warm and tender ballad feature for your tenor sax player. This timeless jazz tune, recorded by countless jazz artists, is scored for developing groups by arranger Mike Smukal. He adds the lush harmony you would expect and then moves into a double time section, returning to the ballad tempo for the ending. Everything is notated for the soloist and rhythm section. An excellent ballad showcase! Highly recommended! Optional expanded instrumentation.

Round Midnight

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Hal Leonard Corporation

One of Carlos Santana's more memorable compositions is this instrumental hit from 1976. Along with Santana's own recording, the version by saxophonist Gato Barbieri also became a hit that same year. This solo feature for tenor saxophone features a haunting melody and the sensual style of the original and is authentically recreated in this version for full jazz ensemble. The tenor solo is a combination of written melodies with options for improvisation. Here's a great way to feature your star tenor player!

Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)

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Alan Baylock has created a sonic landscape for the full ensemble and a tenor saxophone soloist from one of Charles Mingus' most lovely and soulful ballads. The tenor gets the spotlight with an elongated introduction and cadenzas at the end while the full band is highlighted with beautifully scored ensemble passages in between. The lead trumpet range is to written B-flat, and optional parts are included for flute and vibes. Ideal as a festival change-of-pace selection, it's also perfect for almost any program. A truly superb setting!

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Here's a chart that everyone should get to know!  Duke Ellington's classic ballad is the perfect opportunity to feature your star tenor sax player.  With flowing melodies and a lush orchestration, this is the perfect ballad for contests or festivals.

In a Sentimental Mood

Jalen Publishing

This beautiful ballad made famous by the great Etta James makes a perfect change of pace for any concert. Featuring a sultry tenor saxophone solo sprinkled with melodic replies from other sections and lush chords, this one really dazzles. There are improvised solos for piano and tenor sax before the full ensemble returns to close out this dreamy ballad. Highly recommended!

At Last

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 lead trumpet range is to written high C-sharp, there's a great sax soli and a roaring shout chorus. Optional parts are included for expanded instrumentations. Pure excitement and great for festivals!

Well You Needn't

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This Hoagy Carmichael standard from has remained a staple for jazz musicians for almost a century. With its haunting melody and lush chord progression, this ballad treatment of the tune features your tenor sax soloing through the melody, interspersed with melodic statements from the rest of the band. The solo section features an ad-lib tenor sax solo before the rest of the band returns to close out the tune. The lead trumpet plays up to an A just above the staff.

Stardust

Here is a natural pairing of ballad style with an exceptional standard as a tenor saxophone feature. Beautifully arranged, this chart features lush harmonies, a double-time swing section, and a nice sax section soli with tenor lead. The tenor solo is completely notated and does not require improvisation, although it could be added. The lead trumpet range is to B above the staff, and optional parts are included for expanded instrumentations. Simply gorgeous!

Angel Eyes

Feature your tenor sax soloist on this lush ballad that has a hint of Latin. This chart weaves and contrasts minor and major harmonies and is a superb chart for developing players with the lead trumpet range only to top line written F. Additionally, it's playable with optional reduced or expanded instrumentation. The tenor solo is all written out and the rhythm section parts are very clear. An excellent vehicle for your tenor sax player. Highly recommended!

If I Could Fly

Alfred Music Publishing

You won't find a better ballad feature for your tenor sax soloist! The ensemble writing is wonderful, too. Dave Wolpe has created an arrangement that truly does justice to this extraordinarily beautiful Hoagy Carmichael tune. Highly recommended!

Skylark

Here is an outstanding tenor sax feature chart that was composed by pianist Joey Calderazzo, recorded by the late, great Michael Brecker and arranged by Alan Baylock. A haunting medium swing groove- tenor sax as the melody and the solo space, and lead trumpet range is to written high C. A beautiful tune and superb chart on this hard-swinging feature!

Midnight Voyage

This Sonny Rollins classic is bebop at its best! A stellar, up-tempo chart that turns both your tenor players loose and lets them battle it out in the solos. The two tenors trade phrases while the band keeps things cooking throughout. It sounds like a little "madness" is good for the soul!

Tenor Madness

Bakers Jazz and More

Featuring a tenor saxophone soloist, Curveball is in the style of the Ray Charles big band. It opens with huge ensemble brass and bluesy sax lines that switch in and out of a double-time swing feel. The navigation from swing ballad style, double-time feel, and true medium swing and the return to the original swing ballad style helps to define the chart throughout. A soulful melody for the soloist, which is written and improvised, is icing on the cake, along with an improvised solo and cadenzas at the end. Brass ranges: trumpet to written high D and trombone to written G. This is a real powerhouse chart for the entire band and an important addition to the tenor sax solo repertoire!

Curveball

This wonderful and classic ballad recorded by Stevie Wonder is set here as a solo feature for tenor saxophone. Beautifully accompanied by piano only in the beginning, a mellow accompaniment follows with flugelhorns and trombones in bucket mutes as a medium tempo bossa nova style settles in.

Overjoyed

Kris Berg has composed a beautiful, sensitive and mature solo feature for B-flat, E-flat instruments or trombone. The ensemble is equally important in this setting at around 74 bpm that transitions from the ballad style to a double-time section with the soloist and then back to the ballad style. While the solo part is written, there are ample opportunities for improvisation. The lead trumpet range is to written high C. This is an outstanding chart and ideal vehicle for your advanced soloist.

Lifelong Friends

Composed in 1970, A Song for You has over the years become one of Leon Russell's most popular songs, recorded by countless artists including Peggy Lee, Michael Buble, Ray Charles, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin and many others. Here is an outstanding version for jazz ensemble arranged as a solo feature for tenor saxophone.

A Song for You

Hirsch Music

You can't help but smile when you play and hear Tonight, We Tango. At around 112 bpm, this tongue-in-cheek chart is tons of fun and has a melody that just won't go away, plus the groove is one that people will insist on dancing to. It was arranged to feature Grammy-nominated accordionist Alex Meixner, but in the event you don't have an accordionist in the band (really?), you can feature any of your sauciest players on the optional B-flat, E-flat and Bass Clef solo parts. The solo parts are a combination of written passages and improvised choruses that will demonstrate the versatility of your ensemble. Nice!

Tonight, We Tango

This swinging chart is a great vehicle for a tenor sax soloist with jazz band. The solo part ranges from written melody to a written jazz solo, all very accessible, and it especially swings when the tenor soloist trades fours with the ensemble. The ensemble and soloist are equally featured throughout. The lead trumpet range is to written G top of staff and optional parts are included for expanded instrumentation. A great jazz standard for developing jazz groups!

Bye Bye Blackbird

Jeff Coffin Jazz

Transparent and gentle textures permeate this treatment of Jeff Coffin's lyrical South African-inspired jazz waltz. Commissioned by Jeff for the 2011 Massachusetts All-State Jazz Band, Bob Washut's brilliant arrangement provides an open solo vamp section that will accommodate any soloist in the band. Includes optional flute and vibraphone parts, tenor sax 1 doubles on clarinet, eight brass (optional ten), and flugelhorns substitute for trumpets.

As Light Through Leaves

A Gordon Goodwin vocal chart! In addition to the vocal part, there are optional solo feature parts for alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet or trombone for added flexibility. Gordon has conceived this with the solo intertwined into the fabric of the chart. The vocal keys are F, G, and A-flat with modulations, and the vocal range is low E below middle C to E-flat fourth space. As recorded on The Phat Pack CD. An outstanding feature for your singer or any horn player!

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