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Featured on Woody Herman's 1986 GRAMMY Nominated album, '50th Anniversary Tour,' this John Fedchock arrangement captures the unique elements of Thelonious Monk's composition and couples it with the ex...

This beautiful Benny Carter melody was originally composed for the Glenn Miller band (arranged by George Williams) and recorded in 1942. Later Benny wrote his own arrangement of this tune for his big...

Horace Silver's iconic blues received the big band treatment courtesy of arranger Ernie Wilkins for Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1956. By and large, the arrangement sticks fairly close to Silver's or...

Excerpt from the liner notes of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra's CD release of A Love Supreme, as written by Stanley Crouch: This new version of A Love Supreme is the first example of Wynton Marsal...

Arranged by Don Redman, Transcribed by Dylan Canterbury, Edited by Rob DuBoff and Jeffrey Sultanof It's hard to believe at times that Don Redman composed Chant of the Weed in 1931. It is significantly...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement. Full Score, Solo Alto Saxophone, 2 Alto Saxophones (3 altos total), 2 Tenor Saxophones, Baritone Saxophone, 4 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums This famous b...

AS RECORDED BY CHARLIE PARKER ARRANGED BY JOE LIPMAN This famous big band chart was arranged for Charlie Parker in 1951 by Joe Lipman. Lipman had previously worked with Parker on the his recordings wi...

Arab Dance' was copyrighted in 1941. It is credited to both Thornhill and Evans, although the manuscript is clearly in Evans hand. The melody comes from a section of Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' ballet,...

RECORDED BY GIL EVANS ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Jambangle was one of the earliest compositions by Evans after several years of arranging the music of others. He originally wrot...

RECORDED BY CLAUDE THORNHILL ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Background: Some of the most well-known arrangements of modern jazz from the mid-1940s (commonly called bebop, although m...

This arrangement was originally written in 1953 by Billy Strayhorn and featured clarinet and trumpet solos. Although it was recorded in the studio in 1953 and on several live occassions in 1965 (featu...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement. Full Score, 2 Alto Saxophones (Alto 2 doubles Flute), 2 Tenor Saxophones, Baritone Saxophone, 4 Trumpets, 4 Trombones, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums In 1963 Count Basie recorde...

Recorded by the Duke Ellington Orchestra Jazz Big Band Arrangement This arrangement by Billy Strayhorn was written in 1956 for Duke Ellington and recorded during a session for Bethlehem Records. It wa...

Recorded by Claude Thornhill Arranged by Gil Evans, Edited by Jeffrey Sultanof Background: In the mid 1930s, Gil Evans was leading a Benny Goodman-styled big band on the west coast. Surviving aircheck...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement. Full Score, Reed 1: Clarinet/Alto Saxophone, Reed 2: Clarinet/Alto Saxophone, Reed 3: Clarinet/Tenor Saxophone, Reed 4: Tenor Saxophone, Reed 5: Baritone Saxophone, 3 Trumpe...

WRITTEN FOR SUPERSAX WITH BIG BAND ARRANGED BY MED FLORY, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF After almost forty years, these classic arrangements by Med Flory of Charlie Parker solos harmonized for five saxop...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement with Vocal. Full Score, Vocal, 2 Alto Saxophones (Alto 2 doubles Clarinet), 2 Tenor Saxophones, Baritone Saxophone, 4 Trumpets (4th is an alternate part for Horn 1), 3 Trombo...

AS RECORDED BY THE DUKE PEARSON BIG BAND ARRANGED BY FRANK FOSTER, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF (From the forward by Jeffrey Sultanof) Frank Foster is still best known for his many years as saxophonist/...

AS RECORDED BY THE DUKE PEARSON BIG BAND ARRANGED BY DUKE PEARSON, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Here is a relatively easy arrangement from the 'Introducing the Duke Pearson Big Band' record from 1967. T...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement. Full Score, Clarinet/Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone/Clarinet, 2 Baritone Saxophones, 3 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Bass Trombone, Bass, Drums Here is Al Cohn's...

RECORDED BY THE TERRY GIBBS DREAM BAND ARRANGED BY MED FLORY, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Here is Med Flory's great arrangement of the Benny Goodman/Lionel Hampton standard as recorded by the Terry Gib...

Recorded by Quincy Jones Arranged by Al Cohn, Edited by Jeffrey Sultanof This Al Cohn arrangement was written for Quincy Jones in 1959 and recorded for his album 'The Birth of a Band.' Cohn's original...

In 1941, Benny Goodman led the second of his great ensembles. Only Teddy Wilson, Irving Goodman, and arranger Jimmy Mundy remained from the 1935-39 band that jump-started the swing era of popular musi...

Full Score, 2 Alto Saxophones, 2 Tenor Saxophones, Baritone Saxophone, 4 Trumpets, 4 Trombones, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums Benny Carter originally composed and arranged this famous melody for the Coun...

As Recorded by the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band Jazz Big Band Arrangement This arrangement of the Mack Gordon/Harry Warren standard was written by Al Cohn in 1960 and recorded in June and July of...