Myles Collins: Easy Sheet Music

Here is a softly swingin' and tonally rich vocal chart of Cole Porters' Love For Sale based on the Julie London version. We have removed the string lines and re-scored the chart to make it playable wi...

A great little Charlie Hathaway blues-based chart from the Basie band of 1938, with Jimmy Rushing taking the vocal. The chart opens with a short Basie piano solo and a quick unison riff from the reeds...

Here is a great little swing dance number from the relatively early days of Doris Day with the Les Brown Orchestra. Whilst the vocal lyric is not exactly Shakespearean, it is bouncy and quite infectio...

Who's Sorry Now is taken from the version performed by the late, great Kate Smith, and it is bold and bluesey too. The band backings give the vocalist great support without ever getting in her way, an...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

This classic 60's tune was written by the great team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. This arrangement is an original Hal Mooney chart, as sung by Helen O'Connell on her many concert tours, though as...

Transcribed from the album 'Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook' this chart was written by Adler and Ross for the musical 'The Pajama Game', and was a huge hit for Rosemary Clooney. Midle...

My Girl, written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, was a huge hit for The Temptations, and this tune has become a Motown classic. Our arrangement is written with the original 60's version in mind,...

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...

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,...

Our chart of Desafinado is written as a smooth bossa, featuring your two tenor saxes. The sax solo lines are written out, so no improvisation is needed. The brass have limited ranges, with trumpets on...

'Wheels' is a neat little Cha-Cha dating from the early 1960's. Joe Loss and his Orchestra had minor chart success with their version of it. Our chart, whilst not a transcription, retains much of the...

This arrangement is based on a 1960's Basie instrumental version, in the Neal Hefti style. It is a laid-back, relaxed swinger, mostly in ensemble but with nice counterpoint passages of unison Altos an...

Rock-a-Bye Basie is a lovely little riff chart from the earlier days of the Basie band, written by Basie and Lester Young. We have written out the first (Alto) sax solo, though this can be improvised...

Here is our transcription of Ray Anthony's version of Harry Warren and Mack Gordon's well known standard, The More I See You, as played on his 1994 Dream Dancing II album. The only change we have made...

Here is our transcription of Ray Anthony's version of the jazz classic, Body and Soul, as played on his 1994 Dream Dancing II album. The only change we have made from the original is to reduce the bra...

In 1994, just four short decades after recording his 'Dream Dancing' album, Ray Anthony took his band back into the studio to record Dream Dancing II. This transcription of Again is from that album. T...

Here is our transcription of the Joe Loss version of 'Moonlight and Roses'. The chart is scored as a two-beat quickstep that swiitches to four beat and back again. Saxes are mostly Miller-voiced, with...