J.W. Pepper Music Catalog
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4Editors' Choice (Best of 2017 Publications) lNew for 2017 HPepper Basic Library Available via ePrint All Prices in U.S. Dollars & Subject To Publisher Revision 104 jazz ensemble Go to cart I'll Be Home for Christmas—arr. Peter Blair. Here's an ideal holiday chart that will sound great and be easy to rehearse. Start with a holiday classic played around 92 bpm in a light rock groove, add written melody solos, plus easy ranges, and it's a win-win for everyone! Optional parts are included for augmented instrumentations as well as an optional part for vibes. This Christmas classic is the perfect addition to your holiday or winter concert repertoire. Highly recommended! 10753981 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . ME 48.00 Kick It to the Curb—Dean Sorenson. From the First Place for Jazz Series comes this minor blues chart that features swinging lines and intricate counterpoint for young jazz ensembles. The features include a short "rhythm out" section that showcases a different texture and a roaring shout chorus. All First Place for Jazz selections feature moderate ranges, notated rhythm section parts, and open solo sections. Suggested solos are included and it's playable with optional reduced or expanded instrumentations. A great learning experience for young jazz bands! 10758607 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . E 48.00 Life of the Party—Dean Sorenson. Your young jazz band will be the life of the party with this flagwaver that's a perfect opener or closer. Suggested solos are provided for the drummer to be the featured soloist in this up-tempo swinger. Additionally, this chart comes with completely flexible instrumentation and written solos for all instruments. Plus, only four wind players are needed in addition to the rhythm section. This chart will definitely keep the party going! 10758603 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . VE 48.00 Limehouse Blues—arr. Rich Sigler. This Phillip Braham jazz standard is scored to swing hard at around 185 bpm! A very clever chart, it delivers from beginning to end with interludes, great development, and a variety of nuances that sustain interest throughout. Add the well-written sample solos for tenor, a sweet shout chorus along with all the optional parts to include vibes and you have a great value and a wonderful chart for your developing jazz band! 10756386 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . M 48.00 Listen Here—Eddie Harris/ arr. Zachary Smith. This Eddie Harris classic has a funky jazz/rock groove played at about 140 bpm. With written solos provided for tenor and trumpet and a written melody solo for the bass, Listen Here is catchy, easy to rehearse, and very effective. Plus, there's a great development section, a stop- time interlude, and additional parts for augmented instrumentation options. Highly recommended! 10756382 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . ME 48.00 Lush Life—Billy Strayhorn/arr. Mike Kamuf. Lush Life is one of the finest ballads ever by a brilliant composer and gifted arranger. As played at around 88 bpm and moving into a double-time bossa section leading into the finale, you'll enjoy every measure of this excellent chart. The solos are only on the written melody for alto saxophone and trumpet with no improvisation. Included is an optional vibes part and optional wind parts for expanded instrumentations. You'll love this chart! 10756394 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . M 52.00 M Bistro—Dean Sorenson. Here's a young jazz band chart that starts strong and keeps right on going! Groovy lines and funky grooves make this a must-have. Additional features include moderate ranges, notated rhythm section parts, and an open solo section. Written solos are included and it's playable with optional reduced or expanded instrumentations. M Bistro is a fun chart for instruction and performance! 10758605 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . E 48.00 Mambo Jumbo—Paul Clark. From the Jazz Starter Series comes this fun introduction to the Latin style for young players. The basic mambo rhythms are easy and additional highlights include written solos or duets for trumpets or alto saxes with all winds having the melody at some point. Young soloists can play the suggested solos or they can explore improvisation over only two chords from one major scale. This very nice Latin original is also playable with optional reduced or expanded instrumentations. Great for instruction and also that important first performance! 10757070 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . VE 45.00 Mambo Over the Mountain—Rick Hirsch. This catchy mambo is built almost entirely on the rhythmic figure clapped in the first two bars. Its authentic mambo flavor is a blast to play. After two bars of hand claps, it's winds only, then the rhythm section is layered in. Nice combinations of instrumental textures keep things interesting throughout. The solos can be opened up for as many players as desired, there are optional parts included for expanded instrumentations, and don't miss the highly effective drum/percussion-only interlude near the end! This is a great chart with a lot of substance. 10734986 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . M 60.00 Nanigo—Victor Lopez. Victor Lopez gives us a fun tour of the Caribbean islands with Nanigo! It's a powerful and exciting chart that will provide your jazz band and its audiences with the opportunity to experience all the excitement of Afro-Cuban music. This chart has all the authentic ingredients to blow away the competition at your next concert or festival. Additional features include an exciting solo section, auxiliary percussion parts, and optional parts for flute, baritone T.C., tuba and vibes. Fire up the rhythm section and give your students an all- inclusive Latin music experience. Impressive! 10757060 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . MA 52.00 New Rhumba—Ahmad Jamal/ arr. Erik Morales. Ahmad Jamal's jazz standard is played here at around 160 bpm and was originally recorded by Miles Davis. This superb chart is set in a funky/swing style to provide a contemporary flavor. Written or ad lib solo space is provided for tenor and trumpet, the brass ranges are accessible, and there are some great sax section solis. Additionally, optional parts are included for expanded instrumentations. A wonderful chart that is highly recommended! 10756398 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . MA 52.00 Nostalgia in Times Square—Charles Mingus/ arr. Victor Lopez. Don't miss this jazz standard composed by the legendary Mingus! Swinging at around 144 bpm, this chart delivers with outstanding soli passages as well as superb written or improvised solos for tenor and trumpet. The brass ranges are accessible, there are nice full ensemble sections along with highly effective interludes, and there are optional wind parts for augmented instrumentations. It's just what you need for your jazz book, and it's highly recommended! 10756388 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . ME 48.00 Quiet Time—Dean Sorenson. Don't miss this ensemble ballad in the style of the great collaborations between Count Basie and Neal Hefti. Your young jazz band is sure to get the crowd on the dance floor with this one! A terrific showcase for young jazz ensembles, Quiet Time is a great way to teach an important style. Suggested solos are included for all instruments, the instrumentation is totally flexible, and the chart can be played with as few as four winds and rhythm section. Very nice, indeed! 10758601 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . VE 48.00 So Danco Samba—Antonio Carlos Jobim/ arr. Victor Lopez. Victor Lopez creatively sets Jobim's great samba with an alternating and brief swing feel. The tempo is around 158 bpm, and it's tasty with some clever quotes you'll recognize. There's also a written or improvised solo for tenor sax, a few piano montuno interludes, accessible brass ranges, and optional parts included for augmented instrumentations. Add it all together and you've got a fine samba chart. Highly recommended! 10756384 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . ME 48.00 Sonnymoon for Two—Sonny Rollins/ arr. Paul Murtha. Riff-based blues tunes are always valuable when teaching young players to improvise, and here is one of the best! Arranged here for inexperienced players, this Sonny Rollins classic features a swing style at a moderate tempo, a simple melodic riff, and a flexible solo section for encouraging any player to give soloing a try using the blues scale. Chord/scale sheets in all keys are provided as well as fully-notated bass lines and piano voicings. This very appealing chart is also playable with optional reduced or expanded instrumentations. Highly recommended! 10681403 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . VE 40.00 Southtown Hustle—Charlie Hill. Southtown Hustle is a driving rock/fusion chart in a quasi-Herbie Hancock style. The tempo is around 132 bpm; it's mostly a full-ensemble feature with a couple of short written or ad-lib inserts for tenor saxophone. Additional features include well-placed drum fills and an effective interlude featuring the bassist. A fun and musical chart. Optional parts for expanded instrumentations include flute, clarinet, horn in F and tuba. 10757154 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . ME 60.00 Text Me—Paul Clark. Part of the Jazz Starter Series, Text Me is a creative original that provides a great way to teach basic swing style using the call and response technique. Young soloists can play the included suggested solos, or experience an introduction to improvising by using any of the notes from the blues scale. Carefully written rhythm section parts are made as clear and easy as possible, and it's playable with optional reduced or expanded instrumentations. Your rookie jazzers will enjoy "musically texting" each other when they play this fun tune! An outstanding young jazz chart! 10757072 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . VE 45.00 Tonight, We Tango—Rick Hirsch. You can't help but smile when you play and hear Tonight, We Tango. At around 112 bpm, this tongue-in-cheek chart is tons of fun and has a melody that just won't go away, plus the groove is one that people will insist on dancing to. It was arranged to feature Grammy-nominated accordionist Alex Meixner, but in the event you don't have an accordionist in the band (really?), you can feature any of your sauciest players on the optional B-flat, E-flat and Bass Clef solo parts. The solo parts are a combination of written passages and improvised choruses that will demonstrate the versatility of your ensemble. Nice! 10734981 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . MA 60.00 Tweet Fatigue—Gordon Goodwin. Gordon Goodwin wrote this superb chart for a good high school jazz ensemble to be played around 126 bpm with a straight-eighth feel and a rock groove. The saxes start things off a cappella then things heat up in a quirky, but clever Goodwin way. Solo space is provided for a variety of players with separate sample solos provided for C, B-flat, E-flat, and trombone soloists. An auxiliary percussion part plus all the usual optional parts plus vibes are included for augmented instrumentations. Here's your festival chart that's highly recommended! 10756402 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . MA 52.00 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To—Cole Porter/arr. Paul Baker. Ah, yes, Cole Porter! Paul Baker has created a quality chart on this wonderful jazz standard from the Great American Songbook. It's a crafty swinger at around 168 bpm featuring appealing sections for the full ensemble, written or improvised solos for alto and trumpet, a great saxophone soli, and a very hip interlude that builds right to the end. The lead trumpet range is to written F-sharp and additional parts are included for optional expanded instrumentations. Quality writing in a fine chart that's highly recommended! 10756378 Jazz Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . ME 48.00