Big Band charts for trombone

[andrescoli]

Hi everyone, im looking for trombone charts of classic big bands recordings, anyone can help me?

Thank you!

[tbdana]

You might want to be a little more specific. There are a million of them out there that are available from various websites (lots of duplication across sites). What in particular are you thinking of in terms of tunes, artists, or genres? And are you looking for just the trombone parts or the whole shebang? And just trombone features, or standards, or what?

[andrescoli]

Thank you for your answer Tbdana.

Im looking for trombone charts of Count Basie, duke Ellington and other big bands, I want to read and play them with the records, anything you have or you will recommend will be welcome.

[tbdana]

You can go onto sites like this...

https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/categ ... 3=Trombone

...and search for trombone parts to specific tunes, whole genres, or other criteria. Good luck! There's a lot out there, you just have to search for it. For instance, if you wanted to find the lead trombone part for Li'l Darlin' by Neal Hefti as written for Basie, you could find it here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/produ ... 27053.html

The possibilities are many. You just have to go onto the sheet music sites and start searching.

[AndrewMeronek]

This actually isn't a trivial question, because there are a lot of sheet-music-for-big-band charts out there that are not the actual originals and deviate, sometimes significantly. How do you find the "authentic" charts? With a lot of work, research, and false leads, unfortunately. I know one bandleader in particular who has probably spent literally hundreds if not thousands of hours over the years tracking down authentic charts, sometimes by finding a band's original books that were donated to some university's library, and then re-engraving often terrible-looking hand-written, scribbled out, and torn parts. It's a labor of love that ultimately ends up meaning that he can invite friends over and read the charts in his basement.