Jazz Ensemble Original Arrangements

In the jazz life over the years this wonderful song by Kurt Weill (1944), has more often than not been played at a fast tempo. This chart is quite slow (quarter note = 108) with a 12/8 feel. This orch...

Here is a classy transcription of Frank Sinatra's version of Night and Day, taken down by Jon Harpin from the original Nelson Riddle chart. The Riddle touch is much in evidence, with much of the figur...

This 1953 chart was the first product of the Frank Sinatra / Nelson Riddle partnership at Capitol records and was a huge hit at the time, helping to relaunch Sinatra's career and give the Capitol labe...

'No Moon At All' is scored as a bluesy mid-tempo female vocal chart. The structure and feel of the chart is based around the 1947 Doris Day version that she recorded with an eight piece band under the...

This Could Be The Start Of Something Big

This version of You Make Me Feel So Young is the one performed by Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie Orchestra on the 'Sinatra at the Sands' album, later re-issued on the Reprise collection, and it is...

Originally written for the film 'Youth on Parade' by the prolific team of Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn, this tune became a huge hit for Helen Forrest and the Harry James Orchestra.HJ recorded the chart in...

Written by Duke Ellington and originally entitled Concerto for Cootie, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me has been covered by all of the great vocalists including Ella and Sinatra. This version has been...

Here is Frank Sinatra's version of the Irving Berlin classic, Let's Face the Music and Dance. The original chart was arranged by Johnny Mandel, and Jon Harpin has done his usual excellent job in repro...

Puttin' On the Ritz has been transcribed from the original Paul Weston chart, written for Ella Fitzgerald's Irving Berlin Songbook album. The structure of this chart is: intro, full vocal chorus, inst...

Phil Collins Big Band Instrumental Chart. A great straight ahead swing arrangement of this Genesis title by John Clayton Jr. with an open section for solos. From the album 'A Hot Night in Paris'.

Right from the Count Basie book, and taken from the latest CD from the Count Basie Band. This is not a re-arrangement! These are the parts used by Frank Foster and the Basie Band in their nightly enga...

Ella Fitzgerald recorded this song many times in her career, and we offer you what we feel to be her finest version, from the 1960 Billy May collaboration album 'Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook'. This...

Transcribed from the original Neal Hefti chart written for Sinatra's sessions with the Count Basie orchestra, The Tender Trap is a fine example of powerful writing which supports Sinatra's crooning vo...

This version of Alright, Okay was done by Joe Williams with the Count Basie Orchestra and it is a very dancable bouncy shuffle that has a solid pulse. There is nothing complicated about the chart and...

Der Opener zu Phil Collins Serious Hits Live Tour This is the African style call and response song featured on the video release of his Berlin concert and re-created for the full big band by Harry Kim...

Surely the ultimate slow rock ballad alto sax feature number - starting dreamily with synth. and woodwind (cued on saxes if doubling not available) with bass guitar then setting the groove allowing th...

One of the most frequently covered songs from George and Ira Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess,' 'It Ain't Necessarily So' is intended to serve as a defining moment for the character of Sportin' Life,...

AS RECORDED BY CHARLIE PARKER WITH BIG BAND AND STRINGS ARRANGED BY JOE LIPMAN, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Here is Joe Lipman's brilliant big band with strings arrangement that he did for Charlie Park...

The vibrant Tito Puente salsa (mambo) version from the album Party with Puente, CCD-4924-2, extended for full big band by Shaun Byrne. Solos for 1st tenor and 2nd trumpet. Key G minor. Taken down a Mi...

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...

AS RECORDED BY CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS ARRANGED BY JIMMY CARROLL, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Though Charlie Parker received quite a bit of criticism during his lifetime for making his 'with String...

Recorded by Terry Gibbs Dream Band Arranged by Manny Albam, Edited by Jeffrey Sultanof This Manny Albam arrangement was written for the Terry Gibbs Dream Band and was recorded in 1962 and released on...