Lush Life Jazz Ensemble Sheet Music

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...

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...

Another classic from the pen of Sy Oliver, and a famous tune for the Tommy Dorsey band, though much copied and adapted by other bands. Anita O'Day recorded a vocal version with Gene Krupa, and Ted Hea...

A rip-snorting swing chart from the Harry James book. Trumpet Blues opens with a short band fanfare in half time, and then breaks into a driving swing boogie. The middle half-time Cantabile provides t...

One of Artie Shaw's most endearing charts, Softly as a Morning Sunrise was scored as a mid-tempo swing chart for the Shaw band by Jerry Gray, later of Miller fame. We have transcibed the chart and sco...

Here is our faithful transcription of Skippy Martin's inspirational chart written for the Les Brown band. It is not a rework of the stock chart that was published decades ago which contained many erro...

This beautiful Jerome Kern song was recorded by Sinatra in 1964 on the Reprise label for the 'Days Of Wine & Roses' album collaboration with Nelson Riddle. We have adapted the chart by removing the st...

'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...

The Andrews Sisters recorded this chart with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra in November 1938, and it went on to be a big hit for them. We have transcribed the original chart, but have scored it for 8 Bras...

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...

This is the theme tune for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and perhaps the definitive solo vehicle for Trombone, where the melody brings out the best of the instrument. This arrangement is true to the ori...

Just like the original studio version as scored by the composer. We have faithfully transcribed Plas Johnson's original solo, and have scored the string section lines behind the sax solo onto the elec...

This beautifully laid-back, bluesy ballad has been transcribed from the original Nelson Riddle chart written for Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook album. The original studio album included strings,...

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...

Hound Dog is firmly associated with Elvis, and Clapton did a good cover of it too. However, our version is not really rock'n'roll. It opens as a slightly funk latin in C minor, moving to C major for t...

Following many requests for straigh-ahead, no-nonsense latin charts, we are pleased to bring you Tea For Two as a classic Cha Cha. This version is from the Joe Loss Orchestra, arguably the kings of Br...

Here is our transcription of what is arguably Perez Prado's most famous chart, Guaglione. The only adjustment that we have made to the original is to lower the Trumpet ranges in a couple of places, th...

Hey! Ba Ba Re Bop! was performed by Tex Beneke, both while fronting the post-war Miller band, and with his own outfit. In many ways this chart was a portent of things to come, and brifges the gap betw...

Originally entitled 'That's Where I Came In' and first recorded on 8th December 1941, 'Keep 'Em Flying' became a regularly played chart of the USAAF Band under Miller's direction. Taken at such a rapi...

Here is a transcription of the original (and best) Cute, as written by Neal Hefti for the Basie Band. It is not the 'standard' Hefti stock chart. The only change we have made is to score the chart for...

Here is the Glenn Miller Orchestra's take on the US Navy song 'Anchors Aweigh'. It's up-tempo and bouncy, with a driving rhythmic feel. Alto 1 doubles Clarinet (and takes the Clarinet solo). Trumpet 2...

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...

Pick Yourself Up has been lovingly transcribed by Jon Harpin from the wonderful album 'Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson', and the chart shows off the best of both vocalist and arranger. The structure...