Jazz Ensemble Original Arrangements

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...

Wow. This is a tough, storming swing chart from the talented Linda Eder, and is not just for Christmas. The arrangement is a two-tune medley of Here Comes Santa Claus and Santa Claus is Coming to Town...

Adapted from the original Billy May arrangement of Sinatra's Reprise recording, Luck Be A Lady kicks off with the slow, almost Colla Voce intro, which picks up into a thumping swing chart. Jon Harpin...

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...

Although this chart was made famous by Vaughn Monroe in its own right, it is perhaps more widely recognised as the main theme in the Bruce Willis 'Die Hard' series of movies. The opening unison Trumpe...

Sammy Nestico, who wrote many fine scores for the Count Basie Band, has provided this laid-back Basie-style arrangement, starting with the piano and rhythm section, and then gradually building right t...

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...

Here's a swinging chart of the Christmas standard as arranged by Frank DeVol for Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 album 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.' This was arranged to feature a solo vocalist along...

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,...

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...

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...