Big Band Noten für Fortgeschrittene

Frank Foster's contributions to the Count Basie orchestra of the 1950s cannot be underestimated. Whether serving as the band's star tenor saxophone soloist or one of its definitive arrangers, Foster p...

Red Bank, New Jersey native William 'Count' Basie usually spent more time calling attention to the many wonderful musicians in his fabulous bands. This Neal Hefti arrangement, originally recorded for...

This is one of a series of arrangements written by Nelson Riddle for Ella Fitzgerald focusing on the Gershwin songbook. These arrangements constitute some of the most famous settings of classic songs...

In April of 1962 Ella Fitzgerald returned to the studio with Nelson Riddle to record material for the Verve album Ella Swings Gently with Nelson. This arrangement of the Victor Young/Sam Lewis standar...

This is one of a series of arrangements written by Nelson Riddle for Ella Fitzgerald focusing on the Gershwin songbook. These arrangements constitute some of the most famous settings of classic songs...

This Buddy Bregman arrangement, written for the 1956 album 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook,' provides an interesting contrast to several of the other well-known covers of this long-sta...

Blues In The Night has become one of the most well-recognized pop songs of the 1940s due to its appearances in media ranging from television commercials to classic Looney Tunes cartoons. This Marty Pa...

This is one of the classic Nelson Riddle arrangements recorded by Ella Fitzgerald for the 1961 Verve album 'Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson.' This arrangement was modified in the studio to begin with...

Although Marty Paich's arrangement of 'Moonlight On The Ganges' (written for the 1958 Ella Fitzgerald album 'Ella Swings Lightly') starts off in a conventional manner, the multiple tempo shifts over t...

It should come as no surprise that Marty Paich was chosen to write the arrangements for the 1958 album 'Ella Swings Lightly.' Paich's 'dektette' writing for Mel Tormé had brought him some of hi...