Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble

Here is a very classy original arrangement by Jon Harpin of Let There Be Love, written for female vocal. The song itself was written by Lionel Rand and Ian Grant, first published in 1940. It has been...

Here is Tony Bennett's great version of As Time Goes By. The chart opens with the rarely heard verse, colla voce, backed by the Piano, (though you can start the chart at the chorus if you prefer) and...

Here is our transcription of the Nelson Riddle chart from Frank Sinatra's 'Swingin' Session' album, and it certainly does swing hard. Riddle makes great use of repeated riffs and phrases that give sol...

This lush ballad is a transcription of Neal Hefti's arrangement for Sinatra's 1962 album 'Sinatra and Swingin' Brass'. This session was the first time Sinatra worked with Hefti on an album project, an...

Here is our transcription and adaptation of Nelson Riddle's chart done for Sinatra's 'Strangers in the Night' album. Sinatra often referred to this song as his first hit - a reference to his time with...

This creamy version of If I Had You is taken from 'A Swingin' Affair', Sinatra's 12th studio album, conducted and arranged by Nelson Riddle. We have transcribed and adapted this chart to remove the or...

Here is our interpretation of Nelson Riddle's punchy chart for Frank Sinatra. We have adapted the concept to make the chart playable by a regular 5444 big band line-up, with no strings or tuned percus...

Soon has been beautifully transcribed and adapted by Jon Harpin from the original Nelson Riddle chart featured on Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook album.The strings have been removed and rescored i...

Shine On Harvest Moon has been transcribed and adapted by Jon Haprin from the Nelson Riddle chart written for Rosemary Clooney's 1961 album 'Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle'. The string lines have be...

You Took Advantage of Me has been transcribed and adapted by Jon Haprin from the Nelson Riddle chart written for Rosemary Clooney's 1961 album 'Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle'. It is a relaxed swing...

We are pleased to offer Rosemary Clooney's hard-swingin', foot-tappin' version of Get Me To The Church On Time. Lovingly transcribed and adapted by Jon Harpin from the Nelson Riddle original, this cha...

This chart has been lovingly transcribed and adapted by Jon Harpin from Frank Sinatra's 1964 Reprise album 'Days of Wine and Roses'. The original arrangement was penned by Nelson Riddle. It included s...

This fine tune was first popularized by Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra in 1945. Monroe's version included his vocal group, the Moon Maids, to add backings to his own vocal performance. In our adaptat...

This chart has been artfully transcribed by Jon Harpin from the original Nelson Riddle arrangement for Sinatra's 'Swing Easy' album, released in 1962 by Capitol Records (W-1429) though originally reco...

This chart has been transcribed from Frank Sinatra's 1961 album 'Swing Along With Me', released on the Reprise label. Billy May wrote the original arrangements for the album. As you might expect from...

This beauty of a chart has been artfully transcribed by Jon Harpin from the historic 1962 Sinatra-Basie album. The original arrangement was by Neal Hefti, and Jon has kept faith with it, whilst adapti...

This chart is one of fifty seven arrangements written by Nelson Riddle for the 1959 album 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book'. The project marked the first time that Fitzgera...

From the pen of Jerry Gray for the Glenn Miller USAAF Orchestra, this up-tempo swing chart features the piano, (originally Mel Powell) as well as the drums in the shout chorus. This chart is essential...

This is a great up-tempo swinger, written by Oscar Peterson and to our knowledge only ever performed by the Woody Herman bands. It starts with a solo hi-hat opening with offbeat tutti accompanying phr...

Made popular by the Gene Krupa Orchestra, Leave Us Leap is a full-blooded up-tempo swing chart in which dynamics are everything. The first chorus is taken by the saxes, with punchy brass backing. Solo...

This song was written by Mel Powell when he was pianist with the Goodman orchestra, and it was a hit in 1942. Glenn Miller, whilst in charge of the US Army Air Force Training Command Band, used it as...

Another flat-out swing chart from the earlier days of the Count Basie band. Every Tub is a quick swing chart featuring Tenor sax, Trumpet and Piano, with loads of visual possibilities too, as much of...

As part of our expanding Basie series, we are delighted to offer you the very rarely heard Aces & Faces, a medium swing tempo chart from the Basie band of 1945, featuring the Trumpet section. There ar...

Another Bill Finegan masterpiece, Tail End Charlie was made famous by Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Training Command Band as one of a series of numbers that were patriotic and supported the war effort...

This is Glenn Miller's version that was originally performed by the Modernaires vocal group, except that we have turned it into an instrumental, whilst keeping the form true to the original. The band...