LatinJazzClub™ Big Band Series

La Onda
composed and arranged by Bobby Ramirez

This chart was crafted in a 1950's "Mambo / Cha-cha" style with a strong focus on the rhythmic characteristics of Afro-Cuban music. While the chart has a few challenging parts, the overall tenure is simple.

This chart is especially useful as an educational tool for music ensembles that are looking to explore the Latin side of Jazz. Music students will be introduced to many basic patterns that are essential as part of today's professional Latin music bands, blazing a musical trail to a time when bandleaders like Tito Puente & his orchestra, and Machito and his Afro-Cubans where making history at the famous Palladium Ballroom in New York City.

Rates at a medium degree of dificulty.
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Format: Big Band
5 saxes, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets
bass, piano and drum/percussion guide
guitar, full score

Originally recorded with a small ensemble featuring
Bobby Ramirez on tenor saxophone and
Federico Britos Ruiz on violin

$110 Big Band