Welcome to Baker's Jazz and More
We are a music publishing and retail company specializing in high quality original Jazz and Salsa charts for jazz ensembles of all levels and marching bands.
This music is available through Baker’s Jazz And More, RBC Music, Pender’s Music Co., and J.W.Pepper & Son, Inc..
Click Charts to browse our entire catalog and listen to mp3 excerpts (1-2MB) or full length recordings (5-8MB) of the piece. Read our monthly newsletter, The BJAM Session, and learn about our Composers as well as upcoming Events across Texas.
Finally, you can Contact us to Place an Order (we strongly encourage this!) or just to say hello or even “what were you thinking?!” Seriously, we’d love to hear from you and are eager to work with you to meet your needs, including additional or alternate parts for non-traditional instrumentation or possibly a commission for a custom chart written specifically for your band.
News and Updates
BREAKING NEWS!
In addition to being available on this website here, “Goes to Eleven”, the new CD from the Baker’s Dozen Big Band is now available at CDBaby.com! . This CD features 11 original charts by Paul Baker and one of Robert Skiles’ tunes arranged by Paul. Many of the charts are available on this website or through your favorite retailer. If you can’t find one, let us know and we’ll hook you up!
NEW MUSIC!
BJAM is proud to announce the following additions to our catalog. We hope you’ll check them out. Click on the Charts link to the left and select the appropriate Series link at the top of the Charts Page.
In the First Chorus Series, we bring you “The Royal Treatment”, Grade 2, named for longtime Basie saxophonist Marshall Royal. This classy chart features the sax section throughout.
In the Straight Ahead Series we present Kris Berg’s new chart “Clarks’s Bop Shop”, a Grade 3 swinger based on the chord changes to Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia”.
We have your featured soloists covered with John Mills soulful Grade 3 ballad “By the Time You Hear This” which is available for alto, tenor, or trumpet/flugel soloists.
THE NEW BAKER’S DOZEN CD IS NOW AVAILABLE HERE. To find out more about the Baker’s Dozen Big Band click here.
Baker’s Jazz And More is proud to announce the addition of two new composers to our roster – Kris Berg and John Mills.
Kris is the Director of Jazz Studies at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas, a Yamaha Artist on bass, and widely known as a composer, arranger, and clinician. We are excited to be able to offer his music to you. Look for Clark’s Bop Shop in the Straight Ahead Series. This chart was originally commissioned by the Clark Cougar Jazz Band in Frisco, Texas.
Dr. John Mills, professor of jazz saxophone and arranging at the University of Texas at Austin is an accomplished composer and arranger of music in all genres – jazz, commercial, orchestral, film scores, etc. In addition he’s a consummate jazz saxophonist and flutist and leads his own 10 piece jazz band John Mills Times Ten. John brings us a powerfully soulful feature chart for alto sax, tenor sax, or trumpet entitled By the Time You Hear This. This piece was recorded in its original 10pc orchestration on John’s new CD “Caffeine Dreams” on Fable Records.
BJAM music is now available through J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc.. Look for our music in their catalog and at J.W.Pepper. We are also happy to be able to refer customers to Pender’s Music and RBC Music.
NEW MUSIC
Our new Combo Series of charts has caught a lot of attention. Unlike other charts that are simply unison lines or are arranged for specific instruments, BJAM’s Combo Series has flexible instrumentation so that the arrangements are playable by any combination of horns + rhythm section. This makes them suitable for smaller jazz bands, too, and encourages students’ exploration of arranging concepts. They’re good and good for you, too!
MORE PAUL BAKER CHARTS
Paul Baker has arranged George Gershwin’s classic “S’Wonderful”, and the favorite Christmas carol “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” (as a samba!) for middle school jazz band for Alfred/Belwin Jazz. These good people are also now publishing Paul’s original Grade 2 rock tune “Boogie Lou”. Look for these charts in the Alfred/Belwin Jazz catalog and at your local retailer.