Ensemble

If you are looking for a little gospel rock to spice up your next concert, check out this new original from Michael Sweeney. Featuring catchy riffs and a flexible solo section, this hot chart is fresh-sounding and solidly scored.

This John Clayton original from the CD Groove Shop explodes into a medium swing groove, then features a small group (soprano, tenor, trumpet and trombone) on the first go-around of the tune. The saxes have a soli feature and the entire ensemble helps deliver the powerful shout. Includes solos for trumpet and piano.

Here's Dizzy Gillespie's classic in an outstanding Latin setting for full jazz ensemble by Mark Taylor. Just what you would expect from a quality arranger working with a quality tune, this smokin' chart delivers the goods!

Written for and recorded by the U.S. Air Force Airmen of Note, Joe Jackson director, John Wasson has created a stunning and unique setting of this long-standing jazz classic. The chart is filled with twists and turns, blazing ensemble passages and also features solo space for two alto saxes (optional alto sax and trumpet). For the mature band, here is a real showstopper.

One of the bebop classics that defined an era, Groovin' High arranged here by Rick Stitzel is a great introduction to the music of Dizzy Gillepsie for your younger players. With careful attention to ranges and tempo, this chart is very playable and features solos for trumpet and alto.

Written in a jarabe Mariachi style, this exciting arrangement mixes rhythms of 6/8 and 3/4 at times creating a 3 against 2 feel so characteristic of Mariachi music. This well-known song is a must for groups with a little more experience. Hal Leonard Mariachi Series Each arrangement includes a professionally recorded demonstration CD Scored for Violins, Trumpets, Armonia, Guitarron and Vocal Instrumentation options for Flutes, Guitar and Bass

An educator, top studio player, and big band guitarist, Jack Grassel clearly defines the role of the guitar in a jazz ensemble setting. Throughout this manual, he offers solutions to specific problems that you and your guitarist encounter all the time. The book uses a practical self-study approach and includes an invaluable practice cassette. Some of the topics covered are: chord recognition and easy voicings, equipment, accessories and set-up, comping styles and patterns, coordination with horns and rhythm section, understanding the finger board...and much more!

The opening cut from the Mingus Big Band CD Gunslinging Birds is this raucous and blistering jazz waltz. Mingus wrote this piece as a tribute to Charlie Bird Parker with the subtitle If Charlie Parker were a gunslinger there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats. This chart doesn't hold anything back!