Jazz Ensemble Original Arrangements

This version of Cole Porter's classic tune is from Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman band of 1941. We have augmented the brass to 8 voices and scored Goodman's short Clarinet solo on the Alto 2 part. I...

Transcribed from a live performance and adapted to suit a full 5444 band line-up, this Bobby Darin chart swings from top to toe. It opens with only vocal, bass & drums and the full band only enters mi...

Indian Summer is a hauntingly beautiful melody from the pen of Victor Herbert. Written in 1919 under the original title of 'An American Idyll', the lyric was added in 1939 by Al Dubin. The version tha...

This version of Blue Moon is transcribed from Ray Anthony's 'Arthur Murray Foxtrots' album. It is a really solid, no nonsense, medium tempo swing vocal that is suitable for Female Alto or Male Bariton...

Ella Fitzgerald recorded her version of this chart with the Marty Paich Dek-tette on the 1958 'Ella Swings Lightly' album. The Dek-tette line-up was 3 Saxes, 2 Trumpets, Trombone, French Horn (TS), Pi...

This chart has been transcribed from Frank Sinatra's 1961 album'Swing Along With Me', released on the Reprise label. Billy May wrote the original arrangements for the album. As you might expect from a...

This chart has been transcribed from Nat King Cole's 1964 album'Let's Face the Music' on the Capitol label. The original arrangement was penned by Billy May. This chart is an out-and-out vocal feature...

This old tune was made semi-famous by Billie Holiday with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra back in 1935. Our new arrangement of Twent Four Hours a Day is written as a bouncy, up-tempo vocal with a 1930's fe...

This charming swing chart was scored by Sy Oliver for the Jimmie Lunceford band and later re-used by Oliver for his own outfit. Our transcription is taken from the latter. The instrumental chorus of t...

Yes Sir has been transcribed from Nelson Riddle's chart written for Sinatra's 1966 'Strangers in the Night'' album. It is sassy, punchy, not overly long and fun to play and perform. The structure is:...

This chart has been transcribed from Ella Fitzgerald's 1962 album 'Ella Swings Gently With Nelson'. We have removed the strings, making the chart playable by a regular 5444 big band line-up. The chart...

Transcribed from Sy Oliver's chart for Frank Sinatra on his 1961 'I Remember Tommy'' album, East of the Sun is a laid-back swing chart taken at a relaxed pace that, after a four measure into, features...

This cool, relaxed chart has been transcribed from Julie London's 1960 album 'Around Midnight' (Liberty LST 7164) with the Dick Reynolds Orchestra. Many singers (such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra...

Solid Potato Salad is a great vocal swing chart from the versatile Ella Mae Morse, recorded with the Freddie Slack Orchestra in 1943 when Ella Mae was only eighteen years old. There has been some spec...

Gene Krupa recorded over eighty tracks for Capitol Records in 1946-1947. These sessions were later released, along with over sixty Harry James tracks, as the Capitol Vaults Jazz Series. Included in th...

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out is a transcription from Sam Cooke's great RCA Victor 1961 album 'My Kind of Blues'. Sammy Lowe wrote the original arrangement and conducted the studio orchest...

Trouble In Mind is a transcription from Sam Cooke's RCA Victor 1961 album 'My Kind of Blues'. Sammy Lowe wrote the original arrangement and conducted the studio orchestra. The song itself dates from 1...

Forty Cups Of Coffee was written by Danny Overbea and recorded by Ella Mae Morse on Capitol F2539. Dave Cavenaugh wrote the arrangement and provided the studio orchestra. We have augmented our transcr...

Splanky is one of the great tracks from the Basie band of the 1950's, and one of a series written and arranged for the band by Neal Hefti to be found on The Atomic Mr Basie album. This is the original...

Sammy Nestico created this chart of the Phil Collins hit title. A mid tempo number in the classic relaxed Basie style.

A real flag waving up tempo Nestico arrangement. At 244 b.p.m. this number really shifts. However if your band can manage The Kid From Red Bank then they should have no problem with this chart! Alto 1...

Nestico-Style Medium Swing. As recorded by Rainer Tempel Bigband on 'Vorwärts & Zurück' Solos: Posaune Doublings: 1 Flöte

This fantastic chart swings like all the greatest Basie classics. As recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra on "Broadway Hollywood… Basie's Way," Chico O'Farrill's arrangement of Baubles, Bangles & Be...

This great chart is recorded (1999) on the Azica CD 'Swingin' the Blues.' Holman grabs this simple Ellington tune and runs with it. The arrangement is yet another amazing example of Bill Holman's extr...

Hank contributed so much to the Kenton book in the '70's, and this chart is one of the best of the bunch. A lovely, melodic, easy-flowing piece in 5/4 which is a great vehicle for getting into odd-met...