Intermediate Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble and Big Band

Give your guitar and Bari Sax player the floor with this fiery Cuban samba chart. Easy rhythms and unison rhythm scoring make this highly accessible while still laying down an infectious Latin groove...

Bring the timeless sound of the swing era straight into your rehearsals! With "Moten Swing," published by the renowned Hal Leonard in the popular "For the Young Jazz Ensemble" series, a legendary jazz...

Using a light and breezy Calypso vibe, this arrangement will be as much fun to play as it is to hear. There are several interesting melodic and harmonic twists that will keep everyone on their toes, b...

Here is our transcription of what is arguably Perez Prado's most famous chart, Guaglione. The only adjustment that we have made to the original is to lower the Trumpet ranges in a couple of places, th...

8 brass, 5 saxes and 4 rhythm, plus 3 optional flutes, 2 Bb clarinets and horn in F. Swing band girl vocal. A great fun number to perform. The colla voce introduction for vocal and piano, as recorded,...

Bossa nova featuring sax section melody, alto bridge, tenor cadenza. Some sax dbls.

One of the most well-known jazz standards of the 1950s, Benny Golson's 'Whisper Not' began life innocently enough as an arrangement for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's 1956 State Department big band. Alth...

Having long since entered the pantheon of jazz standards, this version of Benny Golson's 'Stablemates' was arranged for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's 1956 State Department-sponsored big band. In many wa...

Commissioned by the North Fort Myers (FL) High School Jazz Knights, this appealing jazz journey features a balanced mix of unison and harmonized writing using rhythms that are essential to the swing s...

Here is a transcription of the original (and best) Cute, as written by Neal Hefti for the Basie Band. It is not the 'standard' Hefti stock chart. The only change we have made is to score the chart for...

One of the more famous tunes from the Les Brown Orchestra, Leap Frog is one of those charts that gets feet tapping and dancers dancing. It simply bounces from start to finish. Technically, this is a s...

Thunderbird is another chart from the Ray Anthony / George (the Silver Fox) Williams partnership, and is a classic of its time. It is a completely ensemble chart, and has some great sectional writing....

Here is the Perez Prado version of Patricia, scored as a swing Cha Cha. As the song was written by Prado, this version is as the composer intended it to sound. The Piano part is played on Organ, but a...

Glenn Miller recorded this chart in July 1942 Victor 20-1509-B, as the B-side to Juke Box Saturday Night. The original arrangement is credited to George Williams who also arranged extensively for Lunc...

This arrangement of Jive at Five has been transcribed and adapted from Basie's 1939 recording. We have scored the chart for a full 5444 band line-up and have given it a definite ending, as opposed to...

Originally written in 1915 for solo Piano, Hors D'Oeuvre became a huge hit for both Sid Phillips and Bert Ambrose. The chart was also revived by Billy May in his Time Life Swing Era recordings. This c...

Whilst almost everyone knows the Miller version of this Jerry Gray tune, not so many are familiar with the Benny Goodman chart arranged by Mel Powell for Goodman in 1942. It is taken more up-tempo and...

Bobby Darin had a big hit with this tune, and other singers hae also covered it very successfully, the latest being Robbie Williams on his Swing when your Winning album with a version very similar to...

Made famous by the Monroe film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend is a sure crowd pleaser. This arrangement is a straight ahead Female swing vocal, though not the Monroe versi...

This is an optional String Pack for our arrangement of 'I've Got You Under My Skin', and comprises Violins A, B & C (3 copies each), Violas (2 copies) and Chelli (2 copies), plus a condensed score of...

Here is our take on Nelson Riddle's chart written for Ella Fitzgerald for her 'Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson' album. We have adapted this chart by removing the strings, to make it playable with a r...

Let's Face The Music is another priceless Ella chart, transcribed from her Irving Berlin Songbook album. The original arrangement was by Paul Weston, and calls for Flute and Clarinet doubles in the re...

Transcribed from her Harold Arlen songbook album, this fabulous Ella chart was originally arranged by the late, great Billy May and it swings like crazy from start to finish. His use of the unison sax...