Intermediate Original Arrangements Sheet Music

'How High The Moon' is a fast paced, hard-swinging, rip-roaring chart from the Ray Anthony band that will make a great showcase for soloists in your band. The chart opens Db with alternating sectional...

Frank Sinatra's chart of Day In Day Out was originally arranged by the late, great Billy May, and it has been lovingly transcribed for you here by Jon Harpin. This arrangement settles into a swinging...

Lovingly transcribed by Jon Harpin from the 'Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson' album, here is Ella Fitzgerald's version of the Goodman standard, Don't Be That Way. Nelson Riddle's concept is flawless,...

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...

Flight of the Foo Birds is one of the great tracks from the Basie band of the 1950's, and one of a series done for the band by Neal Hefti, to be found on The Atomic Mr Basie album. This is a transcrip...

Many big bands have recorded versions of The Saints, yet this one really stands out from the crowd. Whilst not strictly a BG chart, as it was recorded by members of the Goodman Orchestra, it contains...

Written by Jimmy Mundy for the Benny Goodman Orchestra shortly after he joined BG as a staff arranger, Jam Session is an up-tempo swing chart with solo space for Tenor, Clarinet and Trumpet. The arran...

Back Bay Shuffle is a jump tempo swing chart from the great Artie Shaw orchestra, perfect for dancing. We have transcribed this chart as per the original, though expanding it to 8 brass in the process...

Frenesi was a tune popularised and played by many of the well known bands of the late 30's and early 40's. Our version is an adaptation of the Artie Shaw version, but re-scored for a regular big band...

Jump Time is a Sy Oliver chart written for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and is a Trombone feature. This version was transcribed from his November 19, 1940 session live to air from the Hollywood Palladi...

A fine Jerry Gray composition for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, our chart is a transcription of Miller's USAAF band version from early 1944 recorded in the UK. The arrangement is a great dance chart for...

Written and arranged by Buster Harding for Artie Shaw's band, and recorded on the RCA label in 1945, Bedford Drive is a medium tempo swing chart, and a big Clarinet feature. Unlike many of Shaw's earl...

This chart has been transcribed from the 1945 recording that Goodman made for the US Armed Forces Radio Service. We have adapted it to suit a standard 5/4/4/4 lime up whilst keeping the feel and flavo...

Liebestraum, written by Franz Liszt, became a classic chart by the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, very much in the vein of Song of India, with Trombone taking the melody solo in the first chorus. The reeds a...

Down By The Old Mill Stream was written in 1908 by Tell Taylor, and this song has over the years become a bit of a stock standard for barbershop quartets. Benny Goodman recorded this up-tempo, hard sw...

Here is a great take on that well known Scottish traditional ditty 'Loch Lomond'. This chart is transcribed from the version done by members of the Benny Goodman Orchestra in 1959 (Crown records CLP-5...

Count Basie recorded this chart in 1959 on the Roulette label, featuring Frank Wess on Flute. The song itself formed the basis of Hefti's 'Flight Of The Foo Birds', though the changes are not identica...

This tune was written and arranged by Buck Clayton. Our chart has been transcribed from Basie's 1947 Victor recording (20-2003). It is a fast tempo swinger featuring improvised solos from Piano, Tenor...

This patriotic wartime tune was originally done by Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke and Marion Hutton and the Modernaires supplying the vocals.This is a medium swing tempo chart that kicks. We have scored...

Indian Love Call is a classic vocal number from the Artie Shaw orchestra, featuring everyone in the band on Vocals! Though it might sound slightly corny when you listen to the audio, when this chart i...

Stop! is another well known up-tempo swing chart from Anita O'Day and the Gene Krupa Orchestra. The arrangement (transcribed from the Elton Hill original) not only features your vocalist and your band...

This is the original Helen O'Connell version of Green Eyes, from her 1957 album 'Green Eyes', as recorded with the Marion Evans Orchestra. It is not a transcription. We have adapted it slightly, by ad...

I Had The Craziest Dream was another big hit for the Harry James Orchestra, in his 'band that swings with strings' period. It is a romantic, floaty ballad, sung by Helen Forrest, and which also featur...

Splanky is one of the great tracks from the Basie band of the 1950's, and one of a series written and arranged for the band by Neal Hefti to be found on The Atomic Mr Basie album. This is the original...

Sammy Nestico created this chart of the Phil Collins hit title. A mid tempo number in the classic relaxed Basie style.