In the trademark style of iconic jazz composer Thad Jones, The Woozy Dude Blues is a hard swinging 12 bar blues in Bb recalling his advanced harmonies. Keeping with that tradition, there's also an acapella stop-time section to lead off the sax soli and solo…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
A contemporary straight 8th chart with great dynamic contrasts and modern modal harmonies. Tenor sax is featured on the melody. Lots of room for soloists to really stretch out on very playable changes. Solos for tenor sax, piano, and drums. Trumpet range is…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul White
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Originally written for the 2004 Region 18-5A All-Region Jazz Band II, this is about as straight ahead as it gets - 12 bar blues, medium Basie-style swing, key of Eb. Originally written to provide solo opportunities for all who wanted to play; we ended up with…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Based on the chord progression of the standard tune All The Things You Are, this chart turns it upside down with a challenging salsa treatment. Notable in the chart is the trumpet soli - yes, you read that correctly. Make the folks on the back row work for a…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
Reminiscent of the Bill Holman tune "Told You So", this medium swing tune features some fun interplay between the brass and saxes as well as the occasional stop-time figure. Plenty of attitude going on here. Solo for tenor sax and a shout section for the…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
This is a great contest/festival chart! A high energy shuffle swing tune that shows off every section of the ensemble, this programmatic tour de force depicts scenes from an imaginary trip to Las Vegas, from the swinging Strip to the wiseguy street hustler to…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More
A high energy samba that opens with a piano riff that sets up the groove and alto/trpt melody. After a trumpet section fanfare interlude, the saxes move into the B section. The trombones restate the piano riff to set up the improvised alto sax solo. The…
Style:
Jazz Ensemble
Composer:
Paul Baker
Publisher:
Baker's Jazz And More