Jazz Ensemble Ballads

Smooth and flowing melodies blend wonderfully together to create a lush ballad that will show the more sensitive side of your ensemble. Featuring a singular tenor sax solo that shines above the brass

Here's a classy way to introduce the bossa nova style to your developing players. This lyrical chart is great for focusing on developing dynamic phrasing without being too advanced. 

Here is a mysterious, richly scored ballad composed in the Cuban bolero style and featuring a solo flugelhorn. This piece is great to slow things down and show the more expressive side of your ensemble at

This chart starts out with a triplet-based ballad section featuring the trumpet and quickly changes to a moderate swing with a great melody. The saxophone soli is rhythmic and syncopated - a great

Here is a lush, melancholy ballad featuring the full ensemble followed by an alto sax either written or improvised. After a brief sax soli, the ballad builds to an exhilarating finale.

This ballad will showcase your lead tenor as well as the entire band. A wistful melody strolls across a lovely chord progression at a leisurely pace as varied tone colors and lushly harmonized sax solis

This work is sophisticated in its harmonic language while remaining within the reach of a younger band. It's a beautiful and evocative concert piece that will show the depths of your band's ability. This

This easy bossa nova ballad makes a perfect change of pace that's easy to work up for your next concert. There are no solos in this arrangement. You will enjoy the evocative melody in the saxophones and the

This contemporary jazz ballad features the lead alto saxophone and keyboard. The auxiliary percussion part also plays a vital role, adding a variety of colors that aid the drummer in building the band to a

This beautiful ballad is the perfect showcase for your alto soloist. The pensive melody and rich harmony combine to create a wonderful change of pace for your program. Starting as a ballad, it moves into an

This Benny Golson ballad has become a standard trumpet or flugelhorn solo feature over the years. This chart is a gorgeous straight-eighth ballad at around 70 bpm that features a flugel soloist while the

Travel back in time to the big band era with this nostalgic dance ballad ensemble feature. This idiomatic chart with a lyrical melody will immerse players in the tightly voiced harmonies and textures made

Copper Bell Memories is a moving solo feature for tenor saxophone. The contemporary harmonies provide a contrast to the rest of any program. The orchestration builds to a soaring, breathtaking