Lush Life Jazz Ensemble Sheet Music

Billy May wrote many fine charts during his illustrious career, and this is one of them. Written for the talented, and often underrated Casa Loma Orchestra, this arrangement of Franz von Suppe's Poet...

This chart is very clever in its concept, as it is both big band and an 8-piece bebop all rolled into one. Both the Gene Krupa and Woody Herman bands played this chart regularly. The front line is a q...

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...

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...

This is simply a great jump jive number, made famous by the Glen Gray Orchestra, and to the best of out knowledge has never been published before, anywhere. If your band plays to a dance crowd then th...

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 ripsnorter of a number, based on the original Woody Herman version. A brief punchy start introduces a piano solo - a real opportunity for your pianist to show off a little. The sequence is repeated,...

The Sorcerer is another original composition from Carl Fritsche, and is very different from most of our offerings. It is a relaxed, laid-back groove, with an ethereal, almost modal quality to it. Tech...

There have been many arrangements of Wave done over the years, and many suffer from being over-arranged. Wally Menard has produced a truly elegant piece of Latin scoring, and the result is an absolute...

Cherokee was the first big hit for Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra, though when Billy May arrived for the 1939 recording session and handed out the parts nobody seemed that impressed with it! This is...

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...

A wonderful chart from the pen of Neal Hefti for the Basie Band of the late 1950's, along with such well known charts as Cute, Flight of the Foo Birds and many more. Scoot is almost all muted and flut...

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...

Ray Anthony used this chart in much the same way as Harry James used Trumpet Blues - as a rousing sectional feature. It storms from start to end, and plays just as well at a slightly reduced tempo too...

Another Glenn Miller classic, Sun Valley Jump was one of a long line of hit tunes written by Jerry Gray. We have reproduced the original chart here, complete with the Trumpet, Tenor and Clarinet solos...

A gentle, somewhat quirky chart from the Glenn Miller band of 1941 written by Jerry Gray as a two Trumpet feature. This tune grows on you, has an easy tempo and is really smooth. The 'hook' is is in t...

Goodbye was Benny Goodman's closing theme. A slow, hauntingly beautiful composition from Gordon Jenkins, rich in musical colour and tonality and a fine testament to Benny. We have faithfully reproduce...

Once in a while there comes along a chart which just makes you want to listen and weep with joy. This Ted Heath version of Memories of You is one of them. A fabulous feature for two Trumpets , the arr...

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...