Jonathan's is probably the easiest solution suggested.
Yes, that is a great idea.
I was unaware of the convention of writing everything straight through on some big band charts. Of course, the big band I play with only plays music before 1950!
It's based on a show convention, where the music can get complex and has to be sight-read the first time perfectly. My first introduction to that system was when I first started gigging and played the Ice Capades. A two-and-a-half hour show with wall-to-wall music, with only one two-hour rehearsal just before. Man, a chimp couldn't get lost in that book! Everything was so clear and clean, and the page turns were perfect, and even though everything was really playable (they didn't know what kind of band they would be getting from town to town) it sounded great. I took note of everything I could, and started applying it to my own charts.
As it turns out, in a lot of "art" big band charts there is very little material that is repeated exactly, so there is no need to use repeats unless there is a vamp or open solo section. And most bands have too little rehearsal time anyway, so the "show" conventions in part copying help everyone be a great sightreader!
Pop and dance charts, of course, repeat a lot of things exactly.
My purpose with the coda section is, as some have guessed, to keep everything to 2 pages.
I hear you. There's a lot to be said for a compact part, too.
Latin charts have to be the apex of that curve, with their double and triple DSSs, double codas, nested repeats, and "no repeat on DS, except for at letter B, and tacet 2ndX" type markings, all in Spanish.
Christopher
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