Myles Collins: Intermediate Sheet Music

Fantail has been transcribed from the Neal Hefti chart written for the Basie bands' 'Atomic Mr Basie' album. It is an up tempo swinger that features Piano, Alto and Drums. We have written out Basie's...

Here is a hard swinging take on an old traditional tune, as performed by the Ted Heath band. The chart is all sectional work (i.e. no solos) with the melody elements being shared around the front line...

Here is a swinging interpretation of a traditional French nursery tune, as performed by the Ted Heath band. Aside from a drum solo towards the close, the chart is all sectional work. It opens in a qua...

The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra was always a little ahead of its time and Sunset Strip is a fine example of avant garde writing. This chart is a cool swinger, yet offers solo space for Piano, Tenor, Clarin...

Here is Charlie Barnet's take on Indian Summer. The chart is scored as a lush ballad, featuring your lead Alto who takes the lead role for about two thirds of the chart. The arrangement is full of ric...

Transcribed from Ray Anthony's 1960 Arthur Murray Foxtrots album (Capitol Records T1371), Dardanella is a really bouncy swing chart that is full of great licks and riffs, played at a tempo that is jus...

Count Basie recorded this chart in 1959 on the Roulette label, featuring Frank Wess on Flute. The song itself formed the basis of Hefti's 'Flight Of The Foo Birds', though the changes are not identica...

Transcribed from Basie's 1941 recording (Okeh Records 6365) Diggin' For Dex is a fine up-tempo swinger featuring solo space for Tenor, Trombone, Piano and Drums. The Piano solos are written out and we...

This chart has been transcribed from Roulette SR-52081 'The Best Of Basie' (1962). We have expended the brass to 8 voices, to suit a standard 5444 big band line-up. The two Piano solos are written 'as...

This tune was written and arranged by Buck Clayton. Our chart has been transcribed from Basie's 1947 Victor recording (20-2003). It is a fast tempo swinger featuring improvised solos from Piano, Tenor...

Adapted from the original Billy May arrangement used in the Bette Midler film 'For The Boys' where she is performing in front of a hanger full of USAAF personnel during an air raid. Stuff Like That Th...

This patriotic wartime tune was originally done by Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke and Marion Hutton and the Modernaires supplying the vocals.This is a medium swing tempo chart that kicks. We have scored...

My Old Man is a traditional Cockney song from the east end of London which we have taken and turned into a big swinging vocal chart. This number is fun and makes a great set-closer, or a sing-along fo...

Indian Love Call is a classic vocal number from the Artie Shaw orchestra, featuring everyone in the band on Vocals! Though it might sound slightly corny when you listen to the audio, when this chart i...

Stop! is another well known up-tempo swing chart from Anita O'Day and the Gene Krupa Orchestra. The arrangement (transcribed from the Elton Hill original) not only features your vocalist and your band...

Featured on Linda Eder's album 'And So Much More' this chart is an up tempo driving swing chart. Whilst the arrangement harks back slightly to the feel of a late 1950's Hefti style, the song itself is...

This is the original Helen O'Connell version of Green Eyes, from her 1957 album 'Green Eyes', as recorded with the Marion Evans Orchestra. It is not a transcription. We have adapted it slightly, by ad...

This is the actual Helen O'Connell version from her 'Here's Helen' album, as recorded with the Marion Evans Orchestra. This chart is not a transcription and has been recreated from the original manusc...

This is the original Helen O'Connell version of Saturday Night from her 'Here's Helen' album, as recorded with the Marion Evans Orchestra. Please note that this is not a transcription, it's the real d...

I Had The Craziest Dream was another big hit for the Harry James Orchestra, in his 'band that swings with strings' period. It is a romantic, floaty ballad, sung by Helen Forrest, and which also featur...

Here is another original Helen O'Connell chart as played by her on her many concert tours. The tune was written by Johnny Burke & Jimmy van Heusen for the Paramount film 'And the Angels Sing'. This ar...

Arthur Murray was originally a hit for Helen O'Connell in her time with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. This version is from her 1951 Capitol Records recording session and is not a transcription, but a re...

Here is another original Helen O'Connell chart as played by her on her many concert tours, and with the Ray Anthony Orchestra on the Chesterfield radio shows. This chart is not a transcription. The ar...

Taken from the Frank Sinatra / Billy May album 'Come Dance With Me', this rare Sinatra chart carries all of the punch of Billy May's superb writing, combined with the flowing vocal subtlety that is ha...

Another classic from the Benny Goodman Orchestra, written by trumpeter Ziggy Elman. In the original arrangement the vocal chorus led to a typical Goodman 'Yiddish' trumpet chorus. In our arrangement t...