Intermediate Blues Sheet Music

With its hip chord changes and riffy melody, this tune became an instant jazz standard. Ellington's 1933 chart starts out sedately, but quickly shifts gears to swinging figures and modern voicings. Ot...

This is the original Helen O'Connell version from her 'Here's Helen' album, as recorded with the Marion Evans Orchestra. This chart is not a transcription. The arrangement opens at a slow, bluesy temp...

A hard driving 6/8 Gospel Blues style chart, as recorded by Woody Herman. Key F. This tremendous arrangement has all the gutsy feel of the original Charlie Mingus version on 'Mingus Mingus Mingus'. Tr...

This Medium/Fast blues in Fm provides a solid big band ensemble study for your students. The writing contains plenty of call and response between sections and has ample room for solos. Moderate brass...

This straight ahead swinging blues is just what the doctor ordered! Reasonable ranges for the brass, with plenty of call-and-response between sax section and brass. A great set of out choruses brings...

A medium blues feature for baritone sax and trombone. Theme played by baritone and trombone amidst a contrasting 'non-blues' texture within the band.

A medium blues with one bar of straight eighth notes. Includes two separate open solo choruses with chords for everyone, and a crowd-pleasing stop-time shout chorus with each section playing a differe...