When you think of the group Blood Sweat & Tears this tune epitomizes the hard driving rock feel and tightly voiced brass lines that they became known for. Perfectly adapted for jazz ensemble by Roger Holmes.

Note from the composer: Little Lucas is dedicated to my 2 year-old son. It is a happy medium swinger that captures his mischievous nature with the deceptively difficult movement of major 7th chords in the A sections. The melodynotes are for the most part the 7th of each chord and these notes follow a diminished scale sequence--going up a half-step and then down a major third repetitively. The B section features a 2 five sequence that moves in majorthirds. Originally I wrote this tune for a quartet date. For this arrangement I added a line played by the bass and piano at the end of each A section and voiced out the horns in open drop 2 voicings for a clear and cheerysound.

Henry Mayer's classic Summer Wind has been wonderfully arranged here for voice and jazz ensemble by Dave Wolpe. This chart is an easy tempo swing arranged in two keys to feature vocal soloist with jazz ensemble with a brief tenor sax solo.

Klezmer the secular Jewish music from Eastern Europe continues to weave its magic spell.This volume offers all the material you need for authentic performances of new and familiar pieces. Henner Diederich a teacher of folk music and arrangement at the Cologne Musikhochschule has gained a reputation with his many publications especially in the klezmer field. Here he presents twelve klezmer arrangements for variable ensemble: melody counter-melody guitar chords and bass line.The twelve pieces are arranged for an ?open scoring ? i.e. you can choose the instruments add octave doublings leave out voices or improvise your own ideas to suit yourtaste. They offer a glimpse into the typically bittersweet melody and harmony of Yiddish music which emerged from a mixture of Yid-dish Slavic Rumanian and German stylistic elements and is currently undergoing a revival in the folk music scene.Includes C and B Flat parts for melodies 1 2 and 3 and a bass part. The pianist plays from the score.?If you ever wanted to try Klezmer Latin American or Viennese coffee-house music here is your opportunity.?(Strings 5/2005)?I am a grateful to Bärenreiter for producing not only a practical means of performing real Klezmer music but a valuable way in which this unique and characteristic music is sure to be preserved.?(Pan 12/2004)

Featured in all of the popular Toy Story movies the big band version recorded by Robert Goulet (as the voice of Wheezy) is the most memorable. In a similar style Mark Taylor brings a fresh setting of this modern day classic for vocal soloist and big band.

Featured on the TV series The Voice performed by Ray Boudreaux this hit from the 1970s is typical of the infectious bluesy style of composer/singer Bill Withers. Here's a funky chart for young players and soloing couldn't be easier on the two-chord vamp.