Subtitled "Swing Can Really Hang You Up the Most", this chart is a tour de force perfect for any contest program. Featuring slow swing, medium swing, and a combination of both where the horns maintain the swing feel wihle the rhythm section goes to a half-…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Take a trip back to the Cool School of the 1950s with this impressive swinger. With a very accessible tempo of 128bpm, this chart features tenor sax, trumpet, and guitar on a boppish melody presented in the Gil Evans/Miles Davis "Birth of the Cool" style. The…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
This is a medium swing "blues with a bridge" chart that plays off the unusual nature of a knuckleball's trajectory and flight characteristics. Lots of fun "wobbles" and misdirection bring this hard swinging chart home in the melody and orchestration. Solo…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Funky! Funky! Funky! This chart lights up every band that plays it. Mix some Tower of Power with some 70s Brecker Brothers and stand back. The written bass part nods to Rocco Prestia while the drums lean into Dave Garibaldi territory. Add Steve "Doc" Kupka's…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
The title refers to the numerous offbeat rhythms found throughout the chart. This is a great piece to teach syncopation and latin rhythms. The melody is first stated by a solo trumpet (brief feature opportunity) and the sax section follows. The trombone…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Puente Arriba! takes a trip to Mexico, opening with a bravura solo trumpet cadenza before the bass sets up the samba groove. The saxes enter with the melody and are answered by the brass in counterpoint. Lots of unison writing provides power and confidence.…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Robert Skiles, Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
This chart is a fun tribute to Regents Professor Emeritus Jim Riggs of the Univerity of North Texas. This chart in the Nestico style captures his personality and sense of humor while providing a focus on the saxophone section. The chart begins in the key of F…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
A straight ahead swinger in the style and vocabulary of the late, great Sammy Nestico, this chart features numerous opportunities to feature soloists (written solos provided for alto sax, trpt, trombone and piano) as well as each section of the band. A 16 bar…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
This is a seriously funky chart - a party on staff paper. A funky Prince-like guitar riff sets the groove and the brass section ushers in the melody. There is a lot of back and forth interplay in the ensemble and some fun bari sax/bass trombone licks as well…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Robert Skiles, Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Commissioned by the band director son of a Top Gun Flight School Instructor in memory of his father, this high powered swing chart starts with a vertical take-off and settles into a hard swinging tune. The saxes play the tune while the brass answer and…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More