Jazz Ensemble Grade: 1.5

The best way to teach the laid-back ‘Basie style’ is by working on LI’L DARLIN’, but up until now it was only playable by more advanced groups. Roy Phillippe has changed the key and reorchestrated this jazz band classic so it is playable by ensembles at any ability level, and with reduced instrumentation as well. Every developing jazz group must have this chart: classic jazz, wonderful teaching material, now made very easy to perform . . . it sounds like a guaranteed success! (4:12)