Lush Life Jazz Ensemble Sheet Music

Here is a really rich and lush arrangement of Cole Porter's beautiful ballad. Written for female vocal, the chart was in part inspired by Ella Fitzgerald's rendition in her Songbook album, but is not...

Taken from Barry Manilow's 1978 album 'Even Now', this chart is a great lounge ballad with a really bluesy feel. Opening with solo piano, the vocal enters backed by just the rhythm section. The Saxes...

Here is our take on Nelson Riddle's beautiful chart written for Ella Fitzgerald. We have adapted this chart to make it playable with a regular 5444 big band line-up, whilst keeping the feel and flavou...

Mention the words Route 66 and many people think 'Johnny B-Goode', Rock and Roll, guitar bands etc. Well, think again. Our version is written as a bouncy, but not fast, swing-shuffle that has a laid-b...

This is the original Helen O'Connell version from her 'Here's Helen' album, as recorded with the Marion Evans Orchestra. This chart is not a transcription. The arrangement opens at a slow, bluesy temp...

Scored for 5 Saxes, 3 Trumpets, 2 Trombones and 4 Rhythm. Some arrangements of these series have cross-cued lead parts, making them playable by a reduced front line. Standard orchestrations, for stric...

This is pure Woody Herman, and a transcription of the original Nat Pierce chart. The Jazz Me Blues is an old dixieland tune of the 1920's, and this arrangement lifts it into a new sphere altogether. W...

12th Street Rag as you never imagined! This chart was written for the Ted Heath band, and goes way way beyond the original Bowman concept. The chart opens by imitating traffic along 12th Street, in a...

Darktown Strutters Ball is well known to Trad Jazz audiences, but it's a bit of a rarity to have a chart for Big Band. This version is a transcription of the Ken Moule chart which was written for the...

This arrangement was written by Ben Homer for the Les Brown Orchestra, and is a quirky and fun chart to play. Everything is as per the original recording - the dixie trio; the piano solo written out;...

Well, here it is, the great Joseph Zawinul composition, as played by the Buddy Rich band. This chart features Drums (naturally), solo space for Tenor sax and Guitar (or Piano) and is a thunderously ro...

A big band version of the Average White Band hit, following the same structure as the original. This number is just a laid back groove. The saxes take the main riff with trombones and guitar backing....

Beaver Junction is another classic swing chart from the Basie band, and part of our continuing Basie re-creation project. Written by Harry Edison, this chart, whilst still being a punchy swing tune, s...

Here is our transcription Brahms' Hungarian Dance Number 5, another excellent Billy May chart done for the Casa Loma Orchestra as part of a series of classical works arranged for big band. The chart f...

Traumerei was written by Robert Schumann in 1838, the seventh of a set of thirteen pieces for solo Piano. Our chart is based on the Claude Thornhill arrangement of this popular melody, though we have...

A rare and beautiful chart from the Glenn Miller orchestra, this chart was originally scored by Bill Finegan and is his interpretation of Tschaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. The arrangement is full o...

Mambo En Sax was one of four tunes recorded late in 1956 by the fledgling Fraternity Records label in what would prove to be Jimmy Dorsey's last recording session before his untimely death in 1957. Th...

One of Woody Herman's less well known works, La Cucaracha is nevertheless a great latin arrangement by Billy May which develops this simple tune into a fine chart. The reeds are scored for CTTTB, but...

Here is a very straight-ahead Latin (Cha Cha) version of Old Devil Moon, as played by Tito Puente and his Orchestra. It is an ensemble chart from start to end, and also very dancable. The arrangement...

Here is another very straight-ahead Latin (Cha Cha) version of Baubles, Bangles & Beads, as played by Tito Puente and his Orchestra. It is an ensemble chart from start to end, and very dancable. The a...

Chu Cho is a wonderful Latin number from the pen of the great Paquito D'Rivera, written for Mario Bauza and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra. This tune simply oozes style, and also offers a chance to show off...

Por Una Cabeza is the famous Argentinian Tango from the film 'Scent of a Woman'. Our arrangement is very easy to play, with low brass ranges, yet makes for great Tango. The 'verse' is played by Flute,...

Transcribed from the original Johnny Keating chart, Ol' Man River is an absolute screamer of a chart, from the time when the Ted Heath band was at its height. Heath recorded two slightly different ver...

Mambo Jambo is another fine composition from Perez Prado, and is a powerful Mambo chart that has an all pervading swing feel. The usual Prado trademarks are here, with unison Saxes in the first chorus...

Cerezo Rosa, or Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White as it is otherwise known, is probably Perez Prado's most well known piece. In essence, it's a Trumpet solo with big band backing, and is instantly r...