Ted Heath: Advanced Sheet Music

Written by Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton, this tune was a mainstay of the Goodman Sextet, featuring Charlie Christian. The version that we offer you here is transcribed from the Ted Heath album 'Sw...

Here is a very different take on Cole Porter's Night and Day. This Ted Heath (Vocalion CDLK 4228) chart features Drums, the Trumpet section and two Trombones. The Trumpet section takes the opening ver...

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...

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...

Swing @ 76b.p.m. Here is our transcription of the Bobby Pratt version of Sleepy Time Down South, as performed with the Ted Heath band. Bobby was a gifted trumpeter and a great high note player who die...

Transcribed from Ted Heath's 'Swing is King Vol. 2' album, this version of Apple Honey closely follows the form of the Woody Herman original, though the solo spaces are less cluttered, allowing for mo...

Chloe was originally a chart made famous by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, thanks to a stunning arangement by Bill Finegan. Structurally and harmonically it was probably ahead of its time, and certainly...

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...

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...

When you say Intermission Riff, the first name that pops up is usually Stan Kenton. However, other bands also covered this Ray Wetzel tune, and we offer you the Ted Heath version here, originally arra...

Written by band member Kenny Graham for Ted Heath's 1956 Australian tour, Kings Cross Climax is a big drum feature. The chart opens at a rapid speed, with a drum solo and a big pyramid build-up from t...

Written by band member and English Trumpet legend Kenny Baker, this up-tempo swinger features the Trumpets. After the opening chorus and bridge there is a Tenor solo (written out, but can be ad-lib fr...

Bob Carleton penned a little 16 bar tune in 1918, whilst still a club pianinst in Illinois. The tune was briefly famous, then spent 35 years in obscurity until Sonny Rollins 're-invented it' using the...