Intermediate Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble and Big Band

Here is Buddy Morrow's thundering rendition of Night Train. What is unusual is the speed of the chart - a slowish 85 bpm - and as a result the arrangement has a solid, rumbling momentum that carries a...

This version of I Know Why is adapted from our vocal version and is from the film Sun Valley Serenade. It includes an additional instrumental chorus not found in the earlier Miller recorded version. A...

A lovely original composition from Carl Fritsche, Kitty's Waltz is a really relaxed, laid back piece, with great harmonic and melodic structure. Sometimes Jazz Waltzes are over complicated and lose th...

Benny Goodman's famous opening number has been faithfully re-created by Bob Martin and comes complete with the original Clarinet and Alto solos fully written out. This arrangement is scored for 8 bras...

920 Special is a song covered by many of the great Big Bands. Ours is the Basie version taken from the 1960's and forms part of our Basie series ready for his Centenary in 2004. It features some great...

Tenderly has been a standard for Trumpet players for a long time. This is the Ray Anthony version from his huge-selling album, 'Dream Dancing', from the early 50's, and is in 4:4 time. Ray played a li...

A rare and unusual song from the Ted Heath book, Heading North is a 1957 composition and is a medium tempo (at 130 bpm) minor blues chart. It kicks off with a solo piano 12 bar lick (written), joined...

One Note Samba has been done many a time, usually in a straight-ahead slightly dull gentle latin feel. Not this version! Wally Menard has pulled off a really creative job of writing to give this chart...

Moonlight Sonata is a much underrated chart from the Glenn Miller book but one that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck. It naturally features your pianist. The arrangement builds on Beet...

Another very rare chart from the great Count Basie Orchestra, Dickie's Dream, named after Basie's outstanding Trombonist Dicky Wells, was first recorded in 1939 as a 7-piece featuring Wells, Buck Clay...

Here is the rousing King Porter Stomp -from the Fletcher Henderson arrangement for the Benny Goodman Orchestra, featuring solos for Trumpet, Trombone and Clarinet. We have written out all of the origi...

In many ways this Sy Oliver chart written for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra was ahead of its time, with its floating tonality and dissonant voicings. It has an almost ethereal feel to it, with huge contr...

Written by Thomas 'Fats' Waller in 1942, not much more than a year before his untimely death, Jitterbug Waltz is one of only a few known jazz waltz tunes first recorded prior to the 1950's. The melody...

A very rare chart from the Artie Shaw Orchestra, I'm Coming Virginia features Clarinet, with cameo Tenor and Trombone solos. We have scored this chart for 5 reeds and 8 brass (instead of the original...

Adapted from the 1956 recording, El Manisero (the Peanut Vendor) remains one of Stan Kenton's most enduring hits, and is a feature chart for lead Trombone (who solos for the first minute of the chart)...

Here is Artie Shaw's version of the old Hickman & Williams tune, Rose Room, though we have adapted it for 8 brass from the original 6. The chord progressions of this tune were later used by Ellington...

God Bless the USA is a patriotic vocal choral piece with a reduced instrumental line up of 2 saxes, 2 trombones, 2 trumpets, strings and rhythm section. The vocal is scored in the key of C for male so...

This chart is written in a fast samba setting, with flute, trumpet, and guitar lead on the head. An open drum solo and a hard-driving ending keeps this one smoking all the way. Optional 8va's can lowe...

This chart is written in a fast samba setting, with flute, trumpet, and guitar lead on the head. An open drum solo and a hard-driving ending keeps this one smoking all the way. Optional 8va's can lowe...

This chart is written in a fast samba setting, with flute, trumpet, and guitar lead on the head. An open drum solo and a hard-driving ending keeps this one smoking all the way. Optional 8va's can lowe...

This chart is written in a fast samba setting, with flute, trumpet, and guitar lead on the head. An open drum solo and a hard-driving ending keeps this one smoking all the way. Optional 8va's can lowe...

This chart is written in a fast samba setting, with flute, trumpet, and guitar lead on the head. An open drum solo and a hard-driving ending keeps this one smoking all the way. Optional 8va's can lowe...

This chart is written in a fast samba setting, with flute, trumpet, and guitar lead on the head. An open drum solo and a hard-driving ending keeps this one smoking all the way. Optional 8va's can lowe...

This chart is written in a fast samba setting, with flute, trumpet, and guitar lead on the head. An open drum solo and a hard-driving ending keeps this one smoking all the way. Optional 8va's can lowe...