"Sauce on the Side" is a fun chart for beginning jazz band and offers ample opportunities to feature soloists! Written in a "soul jazz" style that is mostly blues-based, this composition features a funky groove established by the repetitive bass figure that is characteristic of this genre. Opening statement of the melody is shared in lead trumpet and tenor sax, followed by a brass statement with sax section background riffs. The contrasting section features a more interesting harmonic area, with...