oh yeah, yardbird suite!! in jazz band we were working on a song called groove merchant. pretty easy song, but itz so much fun to play (has a great sax soli too)!

you don't like groove merchant? yeah, itz a really easy song. we sight read that on our first day of jazz band. that's it. rhythm of the night....i think we did that one too....

Funny, Grove Merchant is "below you" but was good enough for the Thad Jones Mel Lewis big band... The original has one of Thads BEST (though hardly hardest) sax solis. Groovin' Hard (by Don Menza though made famous by Buddy Richs band) is memorably swinging sax soli and sort of a standard of big band literature. If you really want to do it right figure out the articulation and get the whold section to articulate the double time runs together.