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  Bill Holman's Big Bands have always been exciting and fresh, primarily due to his writing.
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This great Sonny Rollins jazz standard features Holman's 1956 writing in a free-swinging, terrific chart.
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A happy, cookin, shuffle tune in the best Holman tradition! Very reasonable ranges and figures which just swing like crazy! Solo space for alto and baritone saxes and drums.
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This wonderful chart features a front line of tenor sax and trumpet stating the melody.
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As recorded on the new CD The Bill Holman Band Live, Holman has written a witty, musical, fun-filled feature for baritone saxophone.
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Bob Curnow provides yet another great arrangement of one of Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays' biggest hits. Originally recorded on their album Letter From Home, "Beat 70" is an exciting up-tempo Latin/fusion tune that will leave your band and audiences humming this catchy melody for the rest of the day! Ranges are mostly modest and rhythmic concerns are minimal. There is solo space for tenor saxophone, trumpet, piano and drums. This chart is a must-have! 5-4-4-4
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This is the chart that people have been wanting to see in print for years! Recorded by the Bill Holman Band on their album "Briliant Corners", this is the great Thelonious Monk tune set in a straight-eighth Latin feel.
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Frank Rosolino's jazz waltz is loved by all, and Holman's arrangement of it is superb.
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Bill Holman wrote some of the best music played by the Stan Kenton Orchestra and "Boop Boo Be Doop" is surely one of those charts.
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There were a number of sensational charts written in the 50's for the Bill Holman Band and the Terry Gibbs Band.
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Exactly as recorded on the View From the Side CD, this wonderful chart was written for Pete Christlieb to be featured on tenor saxophone.
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Holman really gets into his imitative writing with this chart.
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This chart is not for the faint-of-heart.
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Recorded on the A View From the Side CD by the Bill Holman Band, this chart is a slow blues, with Willis taking a VERY different approach.
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Boy, you talk about a wonderful Trombone Feature .
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Tadd Dameron's ballad "If You Could See Me Now" receives sensitive and thoughtful treatment in this arrangement by the great Bill Holman.
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Exactly as recorded on the JVC Bill Holman Band CD, Stevie Wonder's great tune never sounded so good! Set in a medium-shuffle feel, this chart features tenor saxophone (a la Bob Cooper on the CD) and the wonderful gift of Bill Holman's imaginative arranging.
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This an absolutely amazing chart, demanding and exciting beyond belief! The chart is extensive in length and packed full of the great writing for which Bill is known.
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Celebrating his 90th birthday and still providing superb music for all of us to enjoy. Bill Holman's "Just Sayin'" proves that he is still in a league of his own!
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The great Strayhorn tune set in a wonderfully playable chart with Holman's unique, clever approach.
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A walkin'-tempo blues featuring trumpet and tenor.
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Bill's wonderful melodic ideas find a home in a humorous setting featuring swinging tenor sax and trombone solos.
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As recorded by the Bill Holman Band on In A Jazz Orbit, here is his chart on the wonderful Gershwin melody.
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This amazing work was commissioned by the I.
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This is the third movement of the three-part suite titled "The Big Street" which was recorded on the album "The Fabulous Bill Holman" in 1957.
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Never Will I Marry is a terrific Bill Holman arrangement that he wrote for the Woody
Herman Band and is recorded on the “My Kind of Broadway” album. It’s an up
tempo excursion full of Bill’s clever, musical and exciting writing.
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You've probably heard this chart on the great recordings such as In A JazzOrbit (Holman's Band) or the Terry Gibbs DreamBand CDs.
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Scintillating big band music at its best!! Holman does it again! Lots of blowing space for trombone and baritone sax, and a romp-stompin' trip through Holman's present-day ideas about the modern big band.
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Holman once again takes an older tune and reinvents it in a swinging, very hip fashion.
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This is a beautifully haunting melody, scored for bass clarinet soloist (opt.
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A really delightful samba! 339 measures of pure delight! Features soprano sax and flugelhorn, as well as drums and bass.
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As recorded on the new CD The Bill Holman Band Live, this chart is a vibrant, clever, swinging original.
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A kind of quirky approach in a medium groove.
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This is the second movement of the three-part suite titled The Big Street which was recorded on the album The Fabulous Bill Holman in 1957.
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The new CD Brilliant Corners, as recorded by Bill Holman's Band, is taking the jazz world by storm! Here is one of the ballads on the recording, which contains all Thelonious Monk compositions as arranged by Holman.
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Bill Holman's Great Big Band was a sensational ensemble! That album has just been re-issued on Mosaic Records.
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This is a wonderful, easy-swing chart on a great standard, set at a moderate tempo.
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There are never enough trombone features.
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Sonny Rollins and Bill Holman.
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This is a great chart on a great standard, originally recorded by the Terry Gibbs Band on the Dream Band CD.
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The Bill Holman Great Big Band recorded this chart on the Capitol album (same name) in 1960.
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As the title implies, this chart does not rest for a moment.
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This was written for the Danish Radio Big Band.
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As recorded on the new CD "Hommage", Holman has written a witty, musical, fun-filled "fantasy" on the well-known American tune (as in "You are my.
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Sweet Spot,
one of Bill Holman’s originals written for his own band (a feature for
the late Carl Saunders) starts out easy with a cool vamp-like intro leading
into the trumpet solo.
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This chart is a sensational version of the old standard, all dressed up with a new look only Holman could create.
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Holman's writing is legendary, and this chart will just add to the legend.
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Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition.
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This is the first movement of the three-part suite titled The Big Street which was recorded on the album The Fabulous Bill Holman in 1957.
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Bill Holman has created a rollicking, swinging, wonderful tribute to Woody Herman with this great chart.
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Holman has a wonderful knack of taking just about any tune and making it swing like crazy.
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A medium tempo, very interesting setting for this well-known standard.
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What a marvelous chart this is! The "engine" which keeps on going is a 4-bar vamp in the rhythm section.
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As recorded on the new CD The Bill Holman Band Live, this chart features two tenor saxophone players throughout, playing together and separately.
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