Edition: Jazz Big Band Arrangement

Description: Ballad - Easy

Publisher: Alfred Publishing

Here's a great opportunity to discuss and teach balance, expression, phrasing, and dynamics to your very beginning jazz students. You can hear it for yourself in this superb chart by master arranger Victor López. No improvised solos, but a haunting written solo by trumpet or optional flute starts things off and it gets even more lyrical with simple and easy-to-play moving lines. Fast preparation, minimal technical demands, and plenty of optional parts make this the ideal ballad chart for any performance setting. This melody will stick with you for weeks - the title says it all.

Full Score
2 Alto Saxophones
2 Tenor Saxophones (2nd Optional)
Baritone Saxophone (Optional)
2 Trumpets (2nd Optional)
2 Trombones (2nd Optional)
Guitar (Optional)
Piano
Bass
Drums
2 C Flutes (Optional)
2 Clarinets (Optional)
Vibraphone (Optional)
Tuba (Doubles Bass)
Horn in F (Doubles Trombone 1)
Baritone Horn (Doubles Trombone 1)