Anspruchsvolle Swing-Noten

ARRANGED AND RECORDED BY ROB MCCONNELL Here's Rob McConnell's tour de force arrangement of Just Friends from his 1981 album 'Big Band Jazz, Vol. 1' on Pausa Records. We have used the original manuscri...

Here is a great Billy Byers chart that epitomizes the laid-back Basie sound. This arrangement features written-out piano fills throughout and a harmon-muted trumpet solo (on trumpet 2, also written ou...

AS RECORDED BY COUNT BASIE ARRANGED BY ERNIE WILKINS, TRANSCRIBED BY JONATHAN LORENTZ On a warm, July day in 1961 Ernie Wilkins came to a Count Basie Orchestra gig at Birdland in New York with a newly...

AS RECORDED BY THE DUKE PEARSON BIG BAND ARRANGED BY DUKE PEARSON Here is another fantastic arrangement from Duke Pearson. The original manuscript has been used to produce this arrangement - this is N...

AS RECORDED BY THE DUKE PEARSON BIG BAND ARRANGED BY DUKE PEARSON Here is another fantastic arrangement from Duke Pearson. The original manuscript has been used to produce this arrangement - this is N...

Thanks to the rediscovery of the original scores and parts of the Bird with strings arrangements, we now know that Joe Lipman did not arrange Autumn in New York. The handwriting on the score is totall...

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...

PERFORMED BY CLAUDE THORNHILL ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF [Notes by Jeffrey Sultanof] Background: The Claude Thornhill Orchestra was an ensemble that had a unique approach: a vib...

Anthropology was written by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Evans arranged the line in 1947, and it was recorded for Columbia Records and for radio transcriptions. The instrumentation calls for 5...

RECORDED BY CLAUDE THORNHILL ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS In 1941 Gil Evans went to New York to write for the Claude Thornhill orchestra, which won two successive Billboard polls in the 'sweet band' category...

(From the notes by Jeffrey Sultanof) Background: The period from 1948-49 was a period of tremendous growth for Gerry Mulligan. Living in New York City right in the thick of modern jazz pioneers and in...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement. Full Score, 2 Alto Saxophones, 2 Tenor Saxophones, Baritone Saxophone, 4 Trumpets, 3 Trombones (3rd is Bass Trombone), Piano, Bass, Drums Here is Med Flory's arrangement of...

AS RECORDED BY HELEN O'CONNELL ARRANGED BY MARION EVANS This is a tremendous chart from master arranger Marion Evans, recorded by Helen O'Connell for her 'Here's Helen' album. This is not a transcript...

This classic Sinatra arrangement from the pen of Quincy Jones comes from 'It Might As Well Be Swing' album, recorded in 1964 with the Count Basie Orchestra. This song, along with Luck Be a Lady; My Ki...

This swinging Nelson Riddle arrangement comes from Frank Sinatra's 'Swingin' Session and More' record. In typical Riddle fashion, the chart begins with a memorable introduction and then the vocals ent...

RECORDED BY FRANK SINATRA WITH DUKE ELLINGTON ARRANGED BY BILLY MAY We are thrilled to present our first offering from the classic meeting between Francis A. and Edward K. Frank Sinatra, at the tail e...

Pussy Willow wurde 1946 von Bill Finegan für das Tommy Dorsey Orchestra geschrieben und arrangiert. Für die damalige Zeit war das Stück sehr fortschrittlich und deutet auf die Art des Schreibstils hin...

Ein seltenes und sehr anspruchsvolles Stück aus der Glenn Miller Band, geschrieben von George Williams und Jerry Gray. Dieses Chart ist schnell, mit 240+ Beats pro Minute, und wird am besten in 2 gesp...

Boy/Girl & vocal backing group Billy May schrieb viele hervorragende Charts für die Miller-Band, und dies ist eines seiner besten. Der Text ist stimmungsvoll, manchmal dunkel, aber harmonisch reich un...

Dies ist ein großartiger Up-Tempo-Swinger, der von Oscar Peterson geschrieben und unseres Wissens nach nur von den Woody Herman Bands gespielt wurde. Es beginnt mit einer Solo-Hi-Hat-Eröffnung mit Off...

Dieses Lied wurde von Mel Powell geschrieben, als er Pianist des Goodman-Orchesters war, und es war 1942 ein Hit. Glenn Miller, der die US Army Air Force Training Command Band leitete, nutzte es, um d...

Sy Oliver schrieb eine Reihe von denkwürdigen Charts für das Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, wie Opus One und Swanee River. Well Get It ist jedoch eine seiner besten und dennoch nicht die bekannteste. Ein pul...

Dieses Arrangement des Bugle Call Rag, das ursprünglich von Jimmy Mundy für die Band geschrieben wurde, war einer der Charts, die dem Benny Goodman Orchestra an jenem schicksalhaften Augusttag im Palo...