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  Bob Curnow has written some marvelous arrangements of Metheny/Mays music in the past, and this chart will surely "tug at your heartstrings.
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The lush trombone section sound of the Kenton Orchestra on a gorgeous ballad.
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This beautiful ballad is featured on Pat's newest recording Secret Story, and has been scored to highlight solo statements by flugelhorn, guitar or alto saxophone (your choice).
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Bob Curnow is very well known for his wonderful arrangements of Metheny's music, and this chart will only enhance that reputation.
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This is a newly re-arranged version of the magnificent melody recorded on the Adventures In Time CD (available on CD from Sierra).
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This chart is recorded by Oliver Nelson on the recording titled Black, Brown and Beautiful.
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When Lennie arranged for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, he created the most beautiful big band dance book ever written.
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Here is a deeply emotional, gorgeous ballad from the self-titled album Lyle Mays.
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This historically important piece opens with a rubato piano solo and then moves to a terrific Rugolo trombone feature (originally recorded by Kai Winding).
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If you've ever heard Maynard's recording of this world famous melody (Londonderry Air), you probably never forgot it! Sebesky's chart is superb, and this publication includes practical alternate choices for the trumpet feature.
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Graettinger arranged this standard in his most unusual way, using dissonance offset with the beauty of this gorgeous melody.
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This ballad is almost spiritual in its effect!! A trombone feature, the melody soars throughout.
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This is a beautiful, lush, straight-eighth ballad on the popular Cole Porter tune "Easy To Love.
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This standard is made even more beautiful with this Hooper arrangement.
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A magnificent alto saxophone feature.
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As recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on Stage Door Swings, this is a lovely ballad scored in the incomparable Kenton style.
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As recorded on "Maynard Ferguson Plays Jazz For Dancing" (Roulette), this may be the prettiest chart that Willie did for Maynard's band.
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As recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on the CD "Live at the Tropicana," this slow, bluesy piece is a wonderfully understated chart that features an easy-to-play, written piano solo.
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This great chart, a magnificent ballad feature for trumpet, is recorded on the "Tonight Show Band, Volume One " CD (Amherst Records).
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This arrangement of "I Hope In Time a Change Will Come" came about through a desire to hear/play more than one chorus of this stunningly beautiful melody by Oliver Nelson.
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This arrangement by Oliver Nelson is a gorgeous alto saxophone feature of Cole Porter's "I Worship You.
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This wonderful ballad is recorded on the Stan Kenton Orchestra “Sketches On Standards" CD.
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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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With a nod to the wonderful David Maddux arrangement written for First Call, Bob has created a gorgeous version for big band.
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An absolutely gorgeous Bobby Troup ballad which features trumpet and tenor sax.
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This was recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on "Adventures in Jazz.
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Astor Piazzolla's music lends itself well to the big band idiom, and Fred Sturm is a masterful arranger for big band.
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My Foolish Heart is an arrangement of one of the most popular melodies ever written.
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As originally recorded by the great Charlie Mariano with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, this is a must-have solo feature for alto saxophone.
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This is surely one of Gershwin's most beautiful melodies," and Potts arranged it to feature trumpet throughout (as recorded on the 1959 album "The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess", featuring the Bill Potts Big Band) .
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As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on "Once More With Feeling" (Amherst), this is a lovely, warm ballad setting of this great standard tune.
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This is another of the many wonderful charts arranged by Niehaus for the Stan Kenton Orchestra.
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As commissioned (and recorded) by the SWR Big Band of Stuttgart, Germany, this is an extended arrangement based on a gorgeous melody by Pat Metheny.
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Pat Metheny writes superb ballads.
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Piazzolla wrote many beautiful melodies, and this one is perhaps the most haunting.
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Piazzolla wrote many beautiful melodies, and this one is perhaps the most haunting.
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The all-time, classic saxophone section feature.
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In 1953, Kenton recorded an album titled Sketches on Standards.
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This is a gorgeous ballad arranged by Willie Maiden for the great Maynard Ferguson Orchestra and is included in "The Complete Roulette Recordings” (Mosaic).
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This is a beautifully haunting melody, scored for bass clarinet soloist (opt.
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Arranged by Holman for Carl Fontana with the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the mid 50's.
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This piece has been in the catalog for a while, but it has been totally recomposed and notated in Finale.
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We are proud to publish another one of Stan Kenton's ground-breaking saxophone section features.
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One of the things Johnny Richards did best was write gorgeous melodies (many just think of him as bombastic and obsessed with odd-meter things). New updated 2019 format!!!
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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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This piece is a feature for solo flugelhorn (written for Fred Berry).
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This arrangement continues the Radiohead Jazz Project and adds another wonderful talent to the list of outstanding RJP writers.
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As recorded on "Tonight Show Band, Vol.
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This is a wonderful feature for baritone saxophone! It was recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on the Kenton '76 CD.
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Here is another wonderful Bob Curnow arrangement of Metheny/Mays music.
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Finally, Slide Hampton's incredible music is in print.
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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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As recorded on "Tonight Show Band, Vol.
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A great alto saxophone feature.
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This is the bass trombone solo, as recorded (The Kenton Era) by George Roberts with the Stan Kenton Orchestra.
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This is the exact arrangement as played on the "Live at the Tropicana" by the Stan Kenton Orchestra.
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This wonderful, quiet, Li'l Darlin'-ish chart was recorded by Maynard as Easy Chair.
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Henderson and Brown's "The Thrill is Gone," arranged here by Don Dimick for the UNT One O'Clock Lab Band. A strong Tenor Sax soloist can really make this piece their own. Piano is tacit throughout. This moving ballad makes for a wonderful interlude in any set. 5-5-5-2
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This is another one of those charts which did not get commercially (or legally) recorded by the band.
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This is a beautiful ballad, exactly as recorded on the Rendezvous with Kenton album.
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Joe Coccia added a lot of wonderful music to the Stan Kenton Library.
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Buddy Rich played this chart constantly! Features a great bass trombone solo on the tune.
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Written by Stan in the late 50's, this chart is wonderful in its simplicity and melodic content.
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Bill Holman wrote this arrangement for the Kenton Orchestra in the early '60's to feature Marvin Stamm on trumpet (of course). Kenton never recorded it, so this is a brand-new chart to most people. No guitar. 5-4-4-3
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An absolutely stunning feature for flugelhorn and piano!! The great bassist Ray Brown wrote this gorgeous bossa/ballad, and Geoff Keezer gave it his special, inventive touch.
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It is hard to explain the characteristic of this arrangement except to say that, even though Graettinger writes some very adventurous and futuristic textures and lines, you always know where and what the melody is.
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