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  • Minnie the Moocher's Wedding score sample
    • Solos
    • Clarinet
    • Trumpet

    Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding

    as performed by the Benny Goodman Orchestra
    $80
    This wild piece starts out with Fletcher Henderson quoting of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," but after two bars it's off to the races with tons of intricate riffs, solos, and a rowdy shout chorus at the end. Watch out for the lightening quick mute changing, which was standard practice in the 1930s. This piece makes a great wedding reception opener and many working bands using it now will open up the first solo section as a vamp to introduce a wedding party.
    Instrumentation Big Band
    Style Swing Era
    Level 4
    TEMPO quarter note = 185
    Trumpet
    Range    		 C6
  • Minnie The Moocher's Wedding 4-horn score sample
    • Solos
    • Alto
    • Trumpet

    Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding (reduction)

    as performed by the Benny Goodman Orchestra
    $60
    This wild piece starts out with Fletcher Henderson quoting of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," but after two bars it's off to the races with tons of intricate riffs, solos, and a rowdy shout chorus at the end. Watch out for the lightening quick mute changing, which was standard practice in the 1930s. This piece makes a great wedding reception opener and many working bands using it now will open up the first solo section as a vamp to introduce a wedding party.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 4
    TEMPO quarter note = 185
    Trumpet
    Range    		 C6
  • O Holy Night score sample
    • Solos
    • Clarinet
    • Tenor
    • Trumpet

    O Holy Night

    as performed by the Beantown Swing Orchestra
    $95
    From the Beantown Swing Orchestra 2011 holiday album A Beantown Christmas, what starts as a traditional-sounding orchestral jazz arrangement of the Christmas classic warps into a Duke Ellington style R&B swinger. Reflective and introspective moments balance against soulful bluesy cries in this powerhouse arrangement that has a little something for everyone.
    Instrumentation Big Band
    Style Swing Era
    Level 4
    Vocals Male
    TEMPO quarter note = 65
    Trumpet
    Range    		 Eb6
  • O Tannenbaum - Tpt 1

    O Tannenbaum

    as performed by the Danny Fratina Brass Quartet
    $35
    O Tannenbaum, also known as O Christmas Tree, is typically played in a slower 3/4 time. Here, it's in a swinging 4/4 groove with textures that jump in and out of solo, concerted and counterpoint with harmony ranging from traditional to a more aggressive Duke Ellington style.
    Instrumentation Brass Quartet
    Style Bebop
    Level 3
    TEMPO quarter note = 130
    Trumpet
    Range    		 G5
  • Pickin' the Cabbage - score sample
    • Solos
    • Trumpet

    Pickin’ the Cabbage

    as performed by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    $80
    Written for Cab Calloway's band, Pickin' the Cabbage is Dizzy Gillespie's first ever big band composition. The slick tune features a great melody for a trio and many hints of modern bebop and afro-cuban music that would later be Gillespie's trademark.
    Instrumentation Big Band
    Style Swing Era
    Level 3
    TEMPO quarter note = 184
    Trumpet
    Range    		 C6
  • Pickin' the Cabbage 4-horns score sample
    • Solos
    • Trumpet

    Pickin’ the Cabbage (reduction)

    as performed by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
    $60
    Written for Cab Calloway's band, Pickin' the Cabbage is Dizzy Gillespie's first ever big band composition. The slick tune features a great melody for a trio and many hints of modern bebop and afro-cuban music that would later be Gillespie's trademark.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 3
    TEMPO quarter note = 184
    Trumpet
    Range    		 C6
  • Pletchtastic score sample
    • Solos
    • Alto
    • Bari
    • Trumpet
    • Trombone
    • Bass
    • Piano
    • Drums

    Pletchtastic

    as performed by Rocco and the Stompers
    $65
    Pletchtastic is a tongue-in-cheek titled song commissioned for Club Drosselmeyer. A simple Bb blues riff melody, solos for every instrument, no backgrounds, and a big intro and ending makes this a great opener, closer, or mid-set rest piece for your horns.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 2
    TEMPO quarter note = 175
    Trumpet
    Range    		 Bb5
  • Rendezvous With Rhythm score sample
    • Solos
    • Alto
    • Trumpet
    • Trombone
    • Piano

    Rendezvous with Rhythm

    as performed by Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra
    $60
    Rendezvous with Rhythm is a unique tune that bridges the gap between hot jazz and swing with plenty of space for solos. Simple riffs and a tidy shout chorus drive this deceptively swinging Ellington/Hodges chart to a quiet and abrupt ending.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 3
    TEMPO quarter note = 194
    Trumpet
    Range    		 A5
  • Ruined score samples
    • Solos
    • Trumpet
    • Guitar

    Ruined

    as performed by the Danny Fratina Jazz Orchestra
    $95
    Ruined is a funky chamber jazz tune with feature space for guitar and trumpet. It starts with saxes only with no rhythm section, adding in trombones, then trumpets, before building into a guitar solo. The trumpet solo gets some space over trombone chorale before the rhythm section jumps back in, and it ends with a dismantling of each section until nothing is left but the five saxes. Each horn player keeping good time is critical for this composition, but the reward is a lush and exciting groove-based piece.
    Instrumentation Big Band
    Style Modern Jazz
    Level 4
    TEMPO half note = 90
    Trumpet
    Range    		 E6
  • Savoy Strut score sample
    • Solos
    • Alto
    • Trumpet
    • Trombone

    Savoy Strut

    as performed by Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra
    $60
    Savoy Strut is a major hidden gem from the swing era! Duke Ellington starts the tune up with an unusually angular intro, which takes us to a winding but singable head. The soloists play over a beautiful and remarkable chord progression which also features some player-specific orchestration choices that take advantage of the unique sounds of his players. A must-have for any Ellington 7-piece ensemble!
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 3
    TEMPO quarter note = 160
    Trumpet
    Range    		 E5
  • Silent Night - Tuba
    • Solos
    • Tuba

    Silent Night

    as performed by the Danny Fratina Brass Quartet
    $35
    This 19th century Christmas standard belongs in every brass quartet book, and this new arrangement puts it right on the edge of traditional and modern. Featuring a solo tuba up front and bringing the other instruments in with heavy functional reharmonization, the piece beautifully makes its way to a melancholy but resolved conclusion.
    Instrumentation Brass Quartet
    Style Classical, Modern Jazz
    Level 1
    TEMPO quarter note = 120
    Trumpet
    Range    		 Gb5
  • Skunk Hollow Blues score sample
    • Solos
    • Alto
    • Trumpet

    Skunk Hollow Blues

    as performed by Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra
    $60
    Skunk Hollow Blues is a very laid back colorful blues and a fantastic rare gem of the swing era. The intro and head features plunger trumpet on one line, bari and trombone on another, and the alto on a third melody, a rare true 3-part counterpoint! Riffs and triadic voicings back up a couple of solos, leading to an ending chorus that is half based on the head and half new material full of creeping chromatic motion full of dynamics.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 2
    TEMPO quarter note = 125
    Trumpet
    Range    		 Eb5
  • Solo Flight score sample
    • Solos
    • Guitar

    Solo Flight

    as performed by the Benny Goodman Orchestra with Charlie Christian
    $80
    Around the age 24, Charlie Christian, not content with playing rhythm on every tune, wrote himself a soloing feature that has since become the guitar standard of the swing era. Solo Flight has lots of great wild punches from the band but it's all secondary to the guitar improvisation that dances around them. The chord changes have some familiar structures, but mixed in are slightly more modern chords with flashes of early bebop.
    Instrumentation Big Band
    Style Swing Era
    Level 4
    TEMPO quarter note = 180
    Trumpet
    Range    		 D6
  • Solo Flight 4-horns score sample
    • Solos
    • Guitar

    Solo Flight (reduction)

    as performed by the Benny Goodman Orchestra with Charlie Christian
    $60
    Around the age 24, Charlie Christian, not content with playing rhythm on every tune, wrote himself a soloing feature that has since become the guitar standard of the swing era. Solo Flight has lots of great wild punches from the band but it's all secondary to the guitar improvisation that dances around them. The chord changes have some familiar structures, but mixed in are slightly more modern chords with flashes of early bebop.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 4
    TEMPO quarter note = 180
    Trumpet
    Range    		 D6
  • Song of the Volga Boatmen score sample
    • Solos
    • Tenor
    • Trumpet

    Song of the Volga Boatman

    as performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
    $80
    This swingin' Bill Finegan arrangement of a traditional Russian folk shanty has some great ensemble work, several peaks, and a rare jazz canon for the brass! Some simple plunger work helps ground it in the swing era, and a huge finale with harmony way ahead of it's time makes Song of the Volga Boatman a killer addition to any big band book.
    Instrumentation Big Band
    Style Swing Era
    Level 3
    TEMPO quarter note = 135
    Trumpet
    Range    		 Db6
  • Swing Psychometry score sample
    • Solos
    • Bari
    • Trumpet
    • Trombone
    • Piano

    Swing Psychometry

    as performed by Rocco and the Stompers
    $65
    Swing Psychometry is a trumpet feature that pushes the limits of swing era vocabulary. Full of 10 bar phrases and Ellington and Coltrane-inspired harmony, this interesting piece pops out in your book as something unusual yet familiar.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 4
    TEMPO quarter note = 175
    Trumpet
    Range    		 C6
  • Swingin' On The Campus score sample
    • Solos
    • Alto
    • Trumpet

    Swingin’ on the Campus

    as performed by Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra
    $60
    Swingin' on the Campus is an aggressive hard swinging tune jam packed with killer riffs and solo space. This simply-constructed piece is built on a variation of rhythm changes and is a difficult level 2 because of the relatively high tempo and brass endurance.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 2
    TEMPO quarter note = 195
    Trumpet
    Range    		 G5
  • Swingin' the Blues score sample
    • Solos
    • Tenor
    • Trumpet
    • Piano
    • Drums

    Swingin’ the Blues

    as performed by Count Basie and His Orchestra
    $80
    This early Count Basie barn burner absolutely crushes on the blues, with catchy section work, a killer shout chorus, and solo space for both tenors and two trumpets. Starting small up front in the key of C, this arrangement builds up with great riffs, a Durham/Lunceford style chromatic modulation, and a massive shout chorus in two parts.
    Instrumentation Big Band
    Style Swing Era
    Level 3
    TEMPO quarter note = 225
    Trumpet
    Range    		 Eb6
  • Swinging in the Dell score sample
    • Solos
    • Alto
    • Bari
    • Trumpet
    • Trombone
    • Piano

    Swinging in the Dell

    as performed by Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra
    $60
    This upbeat Hodges/Ellington piece is a variation on the old nursery rhyme The Farmer in the Dell. After a statement of the melody, it's all solos with background riffs until the melody comes back at the end. Swinging in the Dell is a very simple solo vehicle that's great for getting dancers on the floor!
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 2
    TEMPO quarter note = 190
    Trumpet
    Range    		 G5
  • That's Rhythm score sample
    • Solos
    • Bari
    • Trumpet

    That’s Rhythm

    as performed by Rex Stewart & His 52nd St. Stompers
    $60
    The unassumingly-titled "That's Rhythm" is a colorful tune that straddles the line between the swing era and the bebop era. Written by Ellington sideman Rex Stewart for his own shorter-lived 4-horn band, "Rhythm" features a punchy and memorable head and lots of solo space.
    Instrumentation Ellington 7-Piece
    Style Swing Era
    Level 2
    TEMPO quarter note = 148
    Trumpet
    Range    		 G5

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