Advanced Jazz Ensemble

AS RECORDED BY FRANK SINATRA ARRANGED BY NEAL HEFTI With its bouncy melody and surprisingly sarcastic lyrics, this 1936 tune represents some of the best of jazzy American pop. Due to its catchy melodi...

Vic Schoen's arrangement of the Cole Porter classic 'Don't Fence Me In' became a huge hit for Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters in 1944. Supposedly Crosby went into the studio on July 25, 1944 havi...

Here is one of Sammy Davis, Jr.'s most famous arrangements. We have used the original George Rhodes manuscript to produce this arrangement - this is not a transcription. Sammy recorded this tune sever...

Here is one of Artie Shaw's biggest early hits. Recorded in 1938 with vocalist Billie Holiday, and then later on with Helen Forrest, this is a nice clarinet feature in addition to a vocal chart. The a...

RECORDED BY FRANK SINATRA WITH THE DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA ARRANGED BY BILLY MAY Here is another great Billy May arrangement from the Sinatra/Ellington album, recorded in 1967. Jazz Lines Publication...

5 Sax, 5 Trp, 5 Pos + Rhythm.

The Charts from the Glenn Miller band are always popular, and most bands have the majority of the Miller classics in their libraries. However, from time to time we like to offer something a little rar...

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...

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...

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 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...

Wrappin' It Up is a very rare chart from the Benny Goodman book. Like many of his earlier hits, is a Fletcher Henderson composition, and is up-tempo and delightfully bouncy. Great for the dancers. Goo...

This version of Careless Love was recorded in 1959 by members of the Benny Goodman Orchestra. The chart is very much in the Goodman style and features solo spots by Clarinet (on Alto 1), Tenor and Pia...

The Ted Heath band was arguably the best big band from the UK and probably the only one to achieve any level of success in the USA, and it did so with superbly scored charts like this version of This...

Here is our take on Basie's seminal version of Moten Swing, recorded in 1959 and originally arranged by Ernie Wilkins. Aside from the Piano solo intro, all solos (Piano, Trumpet 2 & Tenor 1) are impro...

This fine big band ballad from the pen of Neal Hefti was featured on the 1958 album 'Basie plays Hefti'. It is a Trumpet feature, originally written for Snooky Young. We have made a couple of adaptati...

Originally written by Chick Webb for his own band, this version of Let's Get Together was recorded by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra in 1962 on Frank Sinatra's Reprise label, though not released unt...

This fine Benny Goodman chart was arranged by Spud Murphy in 1935, though Goodman never made a studio recording of it. Our transcription is taken from a live Let's Dance NBC radio broadcast. The chart...

This chart is a punchy and powerful up-tempo swinger that, aside from the intro and an 8 measure instrumental passage, features your vocalist all the way. The reeds, in a Billy May style, provide the...

Another first rate chart from the Ella Fitzgerald / Nelson Riddle team, transcribed from the 'Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson' album, and full of lush harmonic structure. Whilst it is a real vocal fe...

Taken from the album 'Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook' this chart is a punchy up-tempo swinger, and an out-and-out vocal feature, with no solo space in the band backings, aside from f...

Written by Cole Porter for his 1953 musical 'Can-Can', this Ella Fitzgerald chart is an up-tempo, hard swinging version (originally scored by Buddy Bregman for her Cole Porter Songbook album) with a c...

Gene Krupa recorded over eighty tracks for Capitol Records in 1946-1947. These sessions were later released, along with over sixty Harry James tracks, as the Capitol Vaults Jazz Series. Included in th...