Intermediate Sheet Music for Jazz Ensemble and Big Band

Red Bank, New Jersey native William 'Count' Basie usually spent more time calling attention to the many wonderful musicians in his fabulous bands. This Neal Hefti arrangement, originally recorded for...

This is one of a series of arrangements written by Nelson Riddle for Ella Fitzgerald focusing on the Gershwin songbook. These arrangements constitute some of the most famous settings of classic songs...

In April of 1962 Ella Fitzgerald returned to the studio with Nelson Riddle to record material for the Verve album Ella Swings Gently with Nelson. This arrangement of the Victor Young/Sam Lewis standar...

This is one of a series of arrangements written by Nelson Riddle for Ella Fitzgerald focusing on the Gershwin songbook. These arrangements constitute some of the most famous settings of classic songs...

This Buddy Bregman arrangement, written for the 1956 album 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook,' provides an interesting contrast to several of the other well-known covers of this long-sta...

Blues In The Night has become one of the most well-recognized pop songs of the 1940s due to its appearances in media ranging from television commercials to classic Looney Tunes cartoons. This Marty Pa...

This is one of the classic Nelson Riddle arrangements recorded by Ella Fitzgerald for the 1961 Verve album 'Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson.' This arrangement was modified in the studio to begin with...

Although Marty Paich's arrangement of 'Moonlight On The Ganges' (written for the 1958 Ella Fitzgerald album 'Ella Swings Lightly') starts off in a conventional manner, the multiple tempo shifts over t...

It should come as no surprise that Marty Paich was chosen to write the arrangements for the 1958 album 'Ella Swings Lightly.' Paich's 'dektette' writing for Mel Tormé had brought him some of hi...

Better known within the jazz community by its instrumental title 'Robbins' Nest,' Quincy Jones' arrangement of 'Just When We're Falling In Love' was written for Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Orc...

This cooking blues chart will fit perfectly in any program. From the opening bar to the final chord, it keeps everyone involved. The solo section is perfect for opening it up to any player as sheets a...

The solo section can be played with only one scale making this medium swing tune an ideal choice for a younger group.

Back Bay is an inlet of Casco Bay, on the scenic coast of Maine. This blues-infused swing chart was written to help students with the II-V-I progression, and the improv section is based entirely on th...

Chicken Reel is a rare chart from the Glenn Miller band, originally penned by Bill Finegan. The arrangement opens with a unison rhythm riff, backed by band calls, and from there it builds in layers -...

Here is Bobby Darin's famous version of this Cahn & Van Heusen classic tune, transcribed in full. It swings gently at around 120 beats per minute and is instantly recognisable. The brass ranges are mo...

Arguably the most famous chart from the Bunny Berigan band, 'I Can't Get Started' is scored as a lush ballad featuring, in equal part, your singer and Trumpet soloist. The Trumpet part is quite tricky...

Written by Bobby Troup (of Route 66 fame) and arranged by Sy Oliver, this tune was a hit for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Pied Pipers. Our chart is scored for a four piece vocal group and full 5444...

Vocal Group or Solo with Group Here is another Andrews Sisters classic vocal trio chart, and our only change to the original is to augment the band parts up to a full big band line up. The chart opens...

A classic Glenn Miller chart from the early days of the band, with vocals by Ray Eberle, and featuring the Miller trademarks of Clarinet-led reeds over brass in plungers, a great modulation to the voc...

Here is Ella Mae Morse's Blacksmith Blues, written for her by Jack Holmes. This song was originally the flipside to Love Me or Leave Me, issued in 1952 by Capitol Records, and it became her biggest hi...

Expertly transcribed by Alan Glasscock from the original Bill Finegan chart for Tommy Dorsey, this catchy and bouncy tune was lifted by the writers from Charlie Parker's 'Now's the Time', so will be i...

This Frank Foster chart was first recorded in the mid 1950's on Basie's'April In Paris' album released on the Verve label. Our transcription is true to the original except that we have augmented the T...

Here is our transcription of Frank Sinatra's great rendition of 'Learnin' the Blues', as performed with the Count Basie band. The original arrangement was by Neal Hefti. Aside from Sinatra's vocal int...

Written by the then relatively unknown duo of Styne & Loesser for the 1942 movie 'Sweater Girl', this version is from Ella Fitzgerald's 1966 album 'Whisper Not', with the original arrangements all by...

At Long Last Love has been transcribed from Sinatra's 1962 album 'Sinatra and Swingin' Brass', the original arrangement being by Neal Hefti. The chart swings hard from start to finish, yet has a light...