Benny Golson composed this octet chart in 1957 and it was featured on the Dizzy Gillespie album The Greatest Trumpet Player of Them All. The features include a bluesy sound, interesting harmonies, varied

Blues Backstage is a staple from the New Testament Count Basie Orchestra of the 1950s. This classic Frank Foster chart on a simple B-flat blues achieves richness through tasteful and creative

Ellington loved the blues. He found a way to use the blues feeling and/or structure in virtually everything he wrote. Naturally, this had a profound effect on his disciple, Billy Strayhorn, who uses many of

Horace Silver created a blues with a perfectly consistent character and structured the accompaniments and his piano solo in perfect balance. Orchestrating the piano parts from the original recording is a

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Recorded on the 1955 album The Band of Distinction, Frank Foster's Down For The Count showcases many of the standard tropes that would come to

Billy Strayhorn's The Intimacy of the Blues can be considered to occupy a similar musical realm as its cousin Jeep's Blues. What it lacks in detailed expanded arranging it more than makes

Manny Albam's arrangement of the Duke Ellington standard Main Stem was recorded by the Terry Gibbs Dream Band in 1961. An open piano solo starts the chart and leads to the melody which is

Originally released on the Count Basie Orchestra's 1962 album Easin' It, Misunderstood Blues is a lesser-known gem from the pen of Frank Foster. Its slow, grinding tempo and pleading melody do an

From the Duke Pearson 1965 album "Sweet Honey Bee." Instrumentation: Alto and Tenor Saxophones, Trumpet, Optional Trombone, Optional Guitar, Piano, Bass and Drums.