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  As recorded on the brilliant recording "A Dream Deferred" (Flying Dutchman CYL2-1449), by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra.
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Holman has done a few arrangements of this tune, and this one may well be the best.
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This chart is from the I REMEMBER BILL - a tribute to Bill Evans CD arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky! All of these incredible pieces require a mature band, soloists and woodwind doublers.
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This is a fast-paced, swinging chart, with lots of solo space for trumpet and baritone saxophone.
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Exactly as recorded on the Kenton / Capitol Retrospective CD (and the original Milestones LP).
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As recorded on "Tonight Show Band, Vol.
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This was recorded on the Stan Kenton Orchestra CD Live at the Tropicana.
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As recorded on the CD "Back to Balboa" (and many other albums), this sensational piece moves along at a fast tempo, featuring solo space (the blues) for alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone and drums.
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This chart is from the I REMEMBER BILL - a tribute to Bill Evans CD arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky! All of these incredible pieces require a mature band, soloists and woodwind doublers.
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Hear The Music! See The Music!
The
brilliant Rich DeRosa wrote this
extraordinary original piece for the North
Texas One O’Clock Lab Band. It is recorded on the CD “ Lab 2018.” There are solos for soprano sax and piano. Sierra Music
decided to publish this because it is one of the most original, exciting and
ground-breaking pieces to be written for
big band in a long time. This is definitely music for a mature band. Once you hear this, you will want your
band to play it. Thank you Rich for keeping the jazz ensemble literature so
beautiful. 5-5-5-4 $75.00
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This chart is the exact, original one that Oliver Nelson wrote for his terrific recording More Blues and the Abstract Truth.
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Here is a slow, gutty, "down-home" type of blues written for and recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on the Adventures In Blues album.
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Boomerang
List Price: $55.00 Retail Price: $55.00
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This is a remarkable chart that features tenor saxophone throughout.
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Sierra Music is proud to announce the addition of Boomerang to our ever-increasing catalogue of Billy Byers' classic tunes. 5-4-4-4
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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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As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on "Once More With Feeling" (Amherst), this wonderful chart is the hottest "flag-waver" of all time.
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This great chart is recorded (1999) on the Azica CD "Swingin' the Blues.
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Holman really gets into his imitative writing with this chart.
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As recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on "Contemporary Concepts," this publication completes the goal of getting this entire watershed recording into print.
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Chicago is a high-energy, big band bebop arrangement on the popular standard that Mike wrote for Maynard Ferguson's band.
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This is a wonderful chart, an old tune in a new dress, as only Bill Holman can do it.
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The Daily Dance was recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on the CD "Birthday in Britain.
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This was written for Doc Severinsen to premier at the Midwest Band & Orchestra Conference.
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This chart is not for the faint-of-heart.
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Nelson wrote an album for Johnny Hodges (Black, Brown and Beautiful, RCA) featuring the compositions of Duke Ellington and also some of his original things.
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Russo always created wonderfully interesting (and challenging) arrangements of standard tunes.
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Sierra Music is publishing this piece with full score, parts and a facsimile of Lyle's original score with his autograph from that time. This is a very special publication for Sierra.
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Finally, Slide Hampton's incredible music is in print.
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The Stan Kenton Orchestra was always an ideal showcase for the outstanding soloists within its ranks.
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This is a great chart to feature your drummer and the entire ensemble! Starting out with a bombastic Eastern-sounding introduction (ala Genghis Khan), it then launches into a hard-driving minor blues stated by the trombone, trumpet and tenor saxophone.
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This chart was recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on the CD "I Told You So.
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This is movement 1 of Don's "Joyful Noise Suite" (a tribute to Duke Ellington).
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Finally, Slide Hampton's incredible music is in print.
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Oliver Nelson delivers great arrangement after great arrangement, and this one is no exception! A quick, uptempo swing tune, "Gon Gong" is the perfect "opener" for any program.
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This great chart is recorded on the "Tonight Show Band, Volume II " CD (Amherst Records).
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A fun-filled, exciting chart on the old tune.
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Talk about a Flag-Waver !!! The Maynard Ferguson Band recorded this on their Footpath Cafe CD.
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As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on "Once More With Feeling" (Amherst), this bright, swinging chart is a blast ! Bill Holman is at his best, weaving descending unison lines with the tune stated by trumpet and tenor sax (both of which are given solo space).
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In 2012 we introduced Omar Thomas to the list of Sierra composers and arrangers.
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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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This may be the all-time greatest jazz arrangement of a standard tune.
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David Baker's music is wonderful to play because of its originality and sense of adventure.
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Recorded in 1954 for the recording Kenton Showcase this chart is an alto saxophone feature throughout.
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Here is another chart written for Stan Kenton (in the mid-1950's), that was never recorded by the band.
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Finally, the up-to-date version that the Kenton Band played right up until the end.
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Once used in the Blackboard Jungle movie, this piece is one of Holman's earliest compositions to be recorded by Kenton.
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Bill wrote a chart on this wonderful Stevie Wonder tune for his own band and also for the Tonight Show Band.
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This chart was one of the staples in the Tonight Show Band book, and they performed this often.
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Nelson wrote an album for Johnny Hodges (Black, Brown and Beautiful, RCA) featuring the compositions of Duke Ellington and also some of his original things.
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Count Basie's great tune gets a smashing treatment from the master arranger Tommy Newsom.
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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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As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on "Once More With Feeling" (Amherst), this is one of Tommy's "classic" charts .
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Commissioned by the IAJE Pennsylvania State Unit for the PA All-State Jazz Ensemble. 5-4-4-4
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Another great chart from Maynard Ferguson's Birdland Dream Band Library.
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Composer Fred Sturm has written a wonderful and exciting shuffle tune which features tenor saxophone, trumpet and drums.
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This is another of the many wonderful charts arranged by Holman for the Stan Kenton Orchestra.
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This great Kenton classic, as recorded on the album "Live from Redlands University," is a swinging, happy chart which allows for lots of blowing space and is combined with great ensemble sections.
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This chart is recorded on the sensational CD titled "Passages" by the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra.
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This is movement 3 of Don's "Joyful Noise Suite" (a tribute to Duke Ellington).
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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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Written for and recorded by the North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band (Lab'99), this chart is a wonderful mix of an even-eighth feel and swing feel with the usual, wonderfully-interesting writing of Neil Slater.
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The quintessential Flag-Waver (as recorded on the 1959 album "The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess", featuring the Bill Potts Big Band), this one is a real romp through a happy tune and a brilliant chart, arranged to feature everyone in the band.
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As recorded by the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra on the "Newport" album, this clever Willie Maiden arrangement is set in three sections - ballad, medium swing and fast swing.
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This is a great, HOT chart from Maynard's Dream Band book.
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On the Corner is a moderate tempoed blues .
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As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on "Once More With Feeling" (Amherst), John's arrangement (to quote Doc Severinsen), is a "masterpiece.
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Hear The Music! See The Music!
The Count Basie Orchestra did-does the “barn burner” charts better
than almost any other big band. This Billy
Byers original starts out hot and never cools down. The tenor saxophone is
the chosen soloist, and the full ensemble writing just keeps on keepin’ on.
Talk about lifting your audience
out of their chairs; WOW! This one will do it. 5-4-4-4 $55.00
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The finale to this wonderful suite is set at a fast pace, with a great theme (unison trombones and tenors to start) and lots of solo spaces for tenor sax, trumpet and drums.
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This is a wonderful chart by the recent winner of the Gil Evans Fellowship sponsored by the IAJE.
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This amazing chart was recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra and released on the By Request-Volume One album.
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Bill Holman's compositions in the library of the Stan Kenton Orchestra were some of the most exciting pieces ever conceived for jazz orchestra.
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As recorded by Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band on "Volume One"(Amherst), this is a red-hot feature for two tenor saxophones (recorded by Pete Christlieb and Ernie Watts).
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Neil brings us yet another brilliant, original piece in the ECM style.
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Shades opens with a drum solo (brushes on snare) in a medium tempo and swings on from there.
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Tommy takes this old tune and turns it on its head.
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Hear The Music! See The Music!
This is one of the most popular
charts on the “Jazz Compositions of Dee
Barton” recording by the Stan Kenton
Orchestra. This is an edited version arranged for standard
big band instrumentation (works great). Starting
lightly with unison saxophones, in a lilting, bright, swinging ¾, the chart
then adds brass backgrounds, growing in intensity and leading to the trumpet
solo. That solo is then followed by some of the coolest (and most challenging)
ensemble writing ever. There is a good bit of unison line playing by everyone
in the band. The drums then bring the full band into a shout chorus that lifts
you out of your chair. There is a return to the lighter side for a bit and then
back to the roaring shout. It all finishes with a cute piano finish on sol do
(those solfeggio classes finally came in handy). 5-4-4-4
$ 65.00
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Hear The Music! See The Music!
This is one of the most popular
charts on the “Jazz Compositions of Dee
Barton” recording by the Stan Kenton
Orchestra. This is the original arrangement as recorded by
Kenton. There is an edited version arranged for standard big band
instrumentation. Starting lightly
with unison saxophones, in a lilting, bright, swinging ¾, the chart then adds
brass backgrounds, growing in intensity and leading to the trumpet solo. That
solo is then followed by some of the coolest (and most challenging) ensemble
writing ever. There is a good bit of unison line playing by everyone in the
band. The drums then bring the full band into a shout chorus that lifts you out
of your chair. There is a return to the lighter side for a bit and then back to
the roaring shout. It all finishes with a cute piano finish on sol do (those
solfeggio classes finally came in handy).
(Standard 5 saxophones, 5 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, piano, bass and
drums) 5-5-5-3 $
65.00
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Buddy Childers, that is! Willis wrote this for Buddy in 1954, and it is recorded on the Kenton Showcase album (This music is available from Mosaic Records in their Russo/Holman CD set.
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This is a great blues chart, and there are never enough of those! Lots of blowing space for lots of players makes this a fun-filled romp through the blues.
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This is a drum set feature which really shows off your drummer.
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As recorded by the Tonight Show Band on "Once More With Feeling" (Amherst), Holman takes a fresh look at this wonderful old jazz standard.
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Another terrific feature chart by Bill Holman.
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As published on A Message From Birdland
by the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra, this arrangement of “Stella By Starlight” is
dedicated to Locksley “Slide” Hampton. Travel between styles as this chart
moves smoothly from ballad to Latin to medium swing to fast swing. A strong trumpet
soloist can really show their metal here. Come for the classic melody, stay for
the solos, and get swept along by the intricate rhythms. 5-4-4-3
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As recorded on the brilliant CD Afrique, by the Count Basie Orchestra, and also (in another form) by the Buddy Rich Band on the CD Swingin' New Big Band.
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This, of course, is Oliver Nelson's best known jazz standard.
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If there is one chart which seems to capture the essence of Stan's mid-fifties bands, this is the one! The chart swings like mad from downbeat to the end.
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As the title implies, this chart does not rest for a moment.
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This is NOT the Glenn Miller version of this tune.
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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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Mulligan's writing for the Kenton Band was fairly minimal in quantity but extraordinary in quality.
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Sierra Music is pleased to announce the addition of another great Benny Carter composition recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on their incredible album The Legend! "The Swizzle" is an uptempo, fast-swing tune that starts with a bang and swings hard all the way to the end.
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Ever heard of "Take the A Train?" Not like this you haven't! Another ingenious arrangement from the towering Rich DeRosa, this up-tempo swing chart is a journey through creative waters from beginning to end and will not disappoint.
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Hear The Music! (This audio is the UNEDITED version, and slightly different than the notes of this chart) See The Music!
Of all the arrangements done of
this iconic Strayhorn/Ellington standard, Don
Sebesky’s chart, written for the Maynard
Ferguson Orchestra (and recorded numerous times) ranks as one of the best, most
creative and challenging versions. Bob
Curnow has complimented the chart by scoring it for standard big band
instrumentation (5 saxophones, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, piano, bass and drums.)
This one really moves, and it will move your band and audiences. 5-4-4-3
$65.00
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Recorded in 1953 on the Kenton Showcase album (This music is available from Mosaic Records in their Russo/Holman CD set.
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This is one of the great "unrecorded" (or "missing") solo features written for the Stan Kenton Orchestra.
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What a dynamic chart this is! It is included on the CD recording The Jazz Compositions of Dee Barton (1967).
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As recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra (Creative World CD) on " Live at Redlands University", this chart is a rip-roaring latin and swing chart that just flies along.
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This chart was recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on the CD "I Told You So.
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As recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra on "Adventures in Jazz" (and elsewhere), this may be the best thing Dee ever wrote for Stan.
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This chart has appeared on a couple of different albums over the years (Kenton Classics and Hits).
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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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This is the original chart as played and recorded by Maynard Ferguson's Birdland Dream Band.
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Neil Slater, the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas, is a superb composer.
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Bill Holman has created a rollicking, swinging, wonderful tribute to Woody Herman with this great chart.
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This wonderful chart is recorded on "Tonight Show Band, Vol.
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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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Holman wrote this to feature (of course) Zoot Sims on tenor saxophone.
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