Smackdown

This challenging shuffle blues chart by Los Angeles writer Jeff Jarvis will thrill and energize your band and its audiences. Equally appropriate as an opener, closer, or anything in between, solos are offered for trumpet and trombone, but the blues-based changes allow the solo section to be opened up so you can spotlight other instrumentalists. Afterward there is an effective a cappella stop-time sax soli with trumpet lead that yields to another solo section with changes cued in the alto, tenor, or baritone sax parts. An exciting shout chorus follows, ending with an open drum solo before the final chord. Highly recommended!