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Jazz Ensemble - Grade 5 SKU: HL.7010394 Composed by Charles Mingus. Arranged by Steve Slagle. Charles Mingus Big Band Jazz. Jazz. Conductor Score (Full Score) and Parts. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.7010394). UPC: 073999641424. 9.0x12.0x0.199 inches.The opening cut from the Mingus Big Band CD “Gunslinging Birds” is this raucous and blistering jazz waltz. Mingus wrote this piece as a tribute to Charlie “Bird” Parker with the subtitle “If Charlie Parker were a gunslinger there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats”. This chart doesn't hold anything back!