The Yellowjackets Songbook contains 20 great tunes from across their entire career. All charts have been approved by the Yellowjackets and are exactly as recorded. The complete package contains six separate spiral-bound books, one each for: piano/partial score, C melody lead sheet, synthesizer/miscellaneous parts, Bb & Eb horn melody part, bass, drums. Over 400 pages! / Ensemble Music / Recueil / Jazz Ensemble

Approved and endorsed by the band these authentic editions of Tower of Power's biggest hits feature scores and parts transcribed exactly as played by the band. They include parts for a ten-piece band with optional parts for altosax and trombone so band directors can match their own instrumentation.Both lead and background vocal parts are also included as are rhythm parts in two formats: a master rhythm part plus the “essence of thegroove ” featuring drum parts transcribed by master funk drummer David Garibaldi! Watch for more titles coming soon!

Approved and endorsed by the band these authentic editions of Tower of Power's biggest hits feature scores and parts transcribed exactly as played by the band. They include parts for a ten-piece band with optional parts for alto sax and trombone so band directors can match their own instrumentation.Both lead and background vocal parts are also included as are rhythm parts in two formats: a master rhythm part plus the ?essence of the groove ? featuring drum parts transcribed by master funk drummer David Garibaldi! Watch for more titles coming soon!

These exciting new jazz numbers will give starter bands the encouragement and assurance they need to sound really great. It's not necessary to use all the parts just choose the ones that best suit your players. Thereare flexible parts for C B Flat and E Flat instruments Piano and Bass. Each tune has a melody line for C B Flat or E Flat instruments. Most tunes have some improvisation starter notes which can be used throughout thepiece to create solos and give confidence to beginner improvisers. On the included backing track CD the backing accompaniments for each piece are repeated four times to allow for optimal improvised solos.

The swingin' Quincy Jones arrangement of this standard has become one of Frank Sinatra's signature tunes. Here's the authentic version edited and adapted for today's bands by Mike Tomaro.

Elle est belle, admirable et elle est mon amour, mon Admirabelamour, et c'est pour la rejoindre au plus vite que je traverse la Place de l'Etoile à 18 heures dans cette voiture sans freins, accélérateur bloqué. Voici une des fictions que je peux me faire lorsque ce morceau, difficile, est correctement interprété. Certains accords sont chiffrés avec un point d'interrogation, par exemple F ?, Eb ?... Ceci, pour les solistes et accompagnateurs-improvisateurs éventuels, est une façon d'indiquer que si vos patterns nécessitent de se raccorder à une tonalité, c'est à peu près celle-ci qui convient. En effet, pour des raisons un peu plus que dodécaphoniques et un peu moins que sérielles, on ne peut, malgré certaines apparences, trouver de résolutions harmoniques ni dans un cadre tonal ni dans un cadre modal, pour la bonne raison que la somme du nombre de croches pour chacune des notes de la gamme chromatique est égale dans l'arrangement tout entier, et que toutes les notes sont équitablement réparties dans l'ensemble de l'harmonie. De plus la ligne de basse obéit à des règles telles que l'on n'y puisse déceler de tonique valable tout son long, et que le rythme lui-même, extrapolation d'une walking bass un-peu-très-beaucoup-ivre, ne doit pas chercher à ' justifier ' ses quatre temps par des accents usuels. Au contraire, jouer chaque note de cette partie comme si elle était un premier temps. (Claude Barthélemy) / Big Band / Partition

A Basie classic arranged by Neal Hefti, this is a swinger played at 156 BPM. It features a written trumpet 2 solo, nice section solis, and the trumpet 1 range is up to written G on top of the staff. Ideal for the young band, check this one out. (3:15) / Ensemble De Jazz

Written and recorded by Tower Of Power this supercharged chart is the ultimate in funk writing for big band! Paul has authentically recreated this famous tune using a tenor sax soloist the trademark tight horn riffs and a churning rhythm section groove.

Klezmer the secular Jewish music from Eastern Europe continues to weave its magic spell.This volume offers all the material you need for authentic performances of new and familiar pieces. Henner Diederich a teacher of folk music and arrangement at the Cologne Musikhochschule has gained a reputation with his many publications especially in the klezmer field. Here he presents twelve klezmer arrangements for variable ensemble: melody counter-melody guitar chords and bass line.The twelve pieces are arranged for an ?open scoring ? i.e. you can choose the instruments add octave doublings leave out voices or improvise your own ideas to suit yourtaste. They offer a glimpse into the typically bittersweet melody and harmony of Yiddish music which emerged from a mixture of Yid-dish Slavic Rumanian and German stylistic elements and is currently undergoing a revival in the folk music scene.Includes C and B Flat parts for melodies 1 2 and 3 and a bass part. The pianist plays from the score.?If you ever wanted to try Klezmer Latin American or Viennese coffee-house music here is your opportunity.?(Strings 5/2005)?I am a grateful to Bärenreiter for producing not only a practical means of performing real Klezmer music but a valuable way in which this unique and characteristic music is sure to be preserved.?(Pan 12/2004)

Ce sillon roche lent moyenne est tout simplement le plaisir de jouer. Etudiants et le public tant apprécieront ce mélodie familière des années 1960 originalement enregistré par Wilson Pickett. / Jazz Band

Celebrating more than 40 years of funk and soul the unmistakable sound of Tower of Power still sounds as fresh and impressive as ever. Mark's chart on this hot tune features the blazing horn lines and driving groove of the original.

Signature tune from the definitive funk band Tower Of Power. This dynamic and authentic chart offers your band a challenge that is worth the extra effort.

Here is a fabulous new collection of 15 arrangements by Michael Sweeney Peter Blair Jerry Nowak and John Berry. These are all proven winners from the acclaimed ?Discovery Jazz Series? and provide an economical source for quality and varied programming! As you can see from the list of titles there is no dead wood here! Includes: April in Paris Blues Machine Georgia on My Mind Harlem Nocturne I Heard It through the Grapevine It Don't Mean a Thing Mission: Impossible Theme Mood Indigo Moten Swing On Broadway Rock Around the Clock A String of Pearls T.W.A. (Trumpets with Attitude) Tangerine and Tequila.

Vocal Feature-Another outstanding jazz vocal with jazz ensemble! This chart is totally flexible--it's written in two keys! The higher key usually works for your male vocalist and the lower key for your female vocalist; if not just switch. It's that easy! In addition to the vocal solo this swinging Rogers and Hart song has a trombone jazz solo (or optional scat vocal solo) and written written ensemble horn lines for the vocalist both great opportunities to integrate your vocalist with the ensemble. Dave Wolpe thinks of everything and he writes some of the best charts in the music business. Very effective! (Female key (low): G below middle C to third line B treble clef -- Male key(high): B-flat below middle C to fourth line D treble clef)

Jazz Ensemble Library - Grade 4 The Woody Herman Thundering Herd helped set a standard for exciting big band performances and well-crafted charts. This burner is one of Woody's trademark tunes and is arranged here in a powerful setting by Rick Stitzel.