The instrumentation for all these Dectet Arrangements is: Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Trumpet 1 & 2, Trombones 1 & 2, rhythm section (piano/guitar, bass, drums).
Written solos for all of our charts may be special ordered at a reasonable cost. Email us at boptism@bigfoot.com with any and all inquiries. RIGHT-CLICK the sound clip links to open in a new tab (or new window).
Boogie Beast
Audiences love this AABA 48-bar form tune. Catchy, playful melody, fun chord progression for improvisation, whimsical feel and humorous soli section. Playable by good high school players. Originally performed by Rich Willey & Boptism at Birdland in NYC, subsequently arranged for the Lionel Hampton Big Band and now arranged for dectet. This will be the tune your audience goes whistling out the door.
Tempo is quarter note=144, 112 measures total score length (not including D.S.), performance length depends on number of soloists.
Boogie Beast / Dectet -- PDF $35.00 | Catalog: BMPJDA001
Take No Prisoners ♫
Written and intended to be an opener for the Maynard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau band and later expanded for full big band, now available for dectet.
Based on extended (24-bar) Bird-style blues chord progression featuring trumpet and tenor sax solo space with different backgrounds written specifically for those instruments. Two “soli” sections; the first one requires guitar/piano/bass to play bebop lines with horn section. The second one is a horn section “chorale” that takes the lead trumpet up to a high G (other than that, the highest trumpet note is a B right below high C). This chart has no D.S. or D.C. and reads straight down.
Click here to hear some of the melody
Click here to hear some of the soli
198 measures; performance time: 6-7 minutes at quarter note=244. Level of difficulty: advanced (due to tempo, single-note bebop lines for guitar/piano/bass, and lead trumpet range requirements).
Written and intended to be an opener for the Maynard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau band and later expanded for full big band, now available for dectet.
Based on extended (24-bar) Bird-style blues chord progression featuring trumpet and tenor sax solo space with different backgrounds written specifically for those instruments. Two “soli” sections; the first one requires guitar/piano/bass to play bebop lines with horn section. The second one is a horn section “chorale” that takes the lead trumpet up to a high G (other than that, the highest trumpet note is a B right below high C). This chart has no D.S. or D.C. and reads straight down.
Click here to hear some of the melody
Click here to hear some of the soli
198 measures; performance time: 6-7 minutes at quarter note=244. Level of difficulty: advanced (due to tempo, single-note bebop lines for guitar/piano/bass, and lead trumpet range requirements).
Take No Prisoners / Dectet -- PDF $37.50 | Catalog: BMPJDA002
Little Treasures
An Afro-Cuban flavored minor 6/8 tune by Rich Willey that can be heard on both of Rich’s CDs available elsewhere on this site. Always well-received by jazz audiences; nice blowing changes; rhythmically, harmonically and melodically interesting. Arranged twice, play it once before solos, and play the out-chorus after the solos.
Written to be played at dotted quarter note = 110. 48 bars + coda.
An Afro-Cuban flavored minor 6/8 tune by Rich Willey that can be heard on both of Rich’s CDs available elsewhere on this site. Always well-received by jazz audiences; nice blowing changes; rhythmically, harmonically and melodically interesting. Arranged twice, play it once before solos, and play the out-chorus after the solos.
Written to be played at dotted quarter note = 110. 48 bars + coda.
Little Treasures / Dectet -- PDF $27.50 | Catalog: BMPJDA003
Mine Are Blues ♫
Very interesting study in minor 12-bar blues by Rich Willey. Head arrangement to be played unison first time through and harmonized on repeat. Unison background figure for horns.
Click here to hear some of the melody
Difficulty level is medium to advanced due to blowing over chord changes. Medium level of ability required to play actual ensembles.
Very interesting study in minor 12-bar blues by Rich Willey. Head arrangement to be played unison first time through and harmonized on repeat. Unison background figure for horns.
Click here to hear some of the melody
Difficulty level is medium to advanced due to blowing over chord changes. Medium level of ability required to play actual ensembles.
Mine Are Blues / Dectet -- PDF $17.50 | Catalog: BMPJDA004
