Edition: Jazz Big Band Arrangement

Description: Waltz - Medium Difficult

Publisher: Hirsch Music Publications

This joyous jazz waltz is one of the very few big band Chanukah arrangements. It's a set of swinging variations on the hymn-like Ma'oz Tzur (Rock of Ages). 

Almost ever player gets a short written solo, and your tenor and trombone soloists will get to stretch out.  You may hear echoes of Bob Mintzer, an important mentor to arranger Rick Hirsch.

.  Contemporary Jazz Waltz
.  Medium-Advanced
.  4.5 minutes
.  solos: Tenor & Trombone
.  Trumpet 1: written C above staff

Click here for a video of the Univeristy of Iowa's Jazz Band One, as directed by Chris Merz, playing the chart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThOS9iwVCRc#t=10

Full Score
Soprano Sax 1
Alto Sax 1 sub. for Soprano
Alto Sax 2
Tenor Saxes 3 & 4
Baritone Sax
4 Trumpets (tpt. 4 is on Flugel)
4 Trombones (incl. Bass Tbn.)
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Vibraphone (opt.)
Flute (opt.)
Baritone Horn T.C. (opt.: sub. for Tbn. 3)