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  This chart starts out in a blaze of excitement and never eases off.
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Also part of the Message from Newport album, this chart features tenor, trombone, and great contrapuntal writing with great changes and a terrific straight-ahead, swinging feeling.
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This wonderful, quiet, Li'l Darlin'-ish chart was recorded by Maynard as Easy Chair.
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Sierra continues to find the lost treasures from Maynard Ferguson's Birdland Dream Band Library.
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The Maynard Ferguson Band recorded this on their Come Blow Your Horn LP.
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Oliver Nelson wrote this one for the Maynard Ferguson Band Library.
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Another great chart from Maynard Ferguson's Birdland Dream Band Library.
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The Maynard Ferguson Band performed a lot of Abene's charts over the years.
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Bill Holman's arrangement, from the Maynard Ferguson Band "Boy With Lots Of Brass" recording, is a wonderful medium-swing tune with solo space for piano, alto, and trumpet.
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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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Finally, Slide Hampton's incredible music is in print.
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It Could Happen To You is one of the best known standard tunes, and this arrangement certainly does it justice.
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The Pro (original) version of "It Could Happen To You" is absolutely wonderful.
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Written for and recorded by the Maynard Ferguson Birdland Dream Band, this chart by Willie Maiden is uncharacteristically easy to play for the band due to very reasonable brass ranges.
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This "edited" version of "Where's Teddy" (as played and recorded by Maynard Ferguson's Birdland Dream Band) is much more playable for the trumpet section as a whole than the original "pro" version (which is also available).
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Ernie Wilkins was one of the most successful contributors to Maynard Ferguson's amazing big band library.
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Bill Holman's arrangement, from the Maynard Ferguson Band "Boy With Lots Of Brass" recording, is a wonderful medium-swing tune with solo space for piano, alto, and trumpet.
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This Al Cohn arrangement, from the Maynard Ferguson Band "Boy With Lots Of Brass" CD, is a wonderful medium-swing tune.
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This Bill Holman chart was written for the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra.
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Undoubtedly one of the best big band charts EVER written! This was recorded by Maynard's incredible band on the Message from Newport LP.
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