Big Band Original-Arrangements

Here it is exactly how Count Basie and his orchestra played it! Every detail of this jazz standard has been transcribed and reconstructed by Jeff Hest. What better way to learn about the Basie style t...

Here it is exactly how Count Basie and his orchestra played it! Every detail of this jazz standard has been transcribed and reconstructed by Jeff Hest. What better way to learn about the Basie style t...

This is the definitive swing chart composed and arranged by the legendary Sammy Nestico. Straight from the Quincy Jones/Sammy Nestico Orchestra CD, this chart starts off swinging and then swings even...

This is the definitive swing chart composed and arranged by the legendary Sammy Nestico. Straight from the Quincy Jones/Sammy Nestico Orchestra CD, this chart starts off swinging and then swings even...

From the Quincy Jones -- Sammy Nestico CD titled Basie & Beyond. Composed and arranged by the lendendary Sammy Nestico, this is the quintessential easy-swing chart. Sammy loaded this with a great sax...

From the Quincy Jones -- Sammy Nestico CD titled Basie & Beyond. Composed and arranged by the lendendary Sammy Nestico, this is the quintessential easy-swing chart. Sammy loaded this with a great sax...

From the Quincy Jones -- Sammy Nestico CD titled Basie & Beyond. Composed and arranged by the lendendary Sammy Nestico, this is the quintessential easy-swing chart. Sammy loaded this with a great sax...

Swingin' for the Fences.

Swingin' for the Fences.

Swingin' for the Fences.

As recorded on the Silverline Records album XXL (CD and DVD Audio) by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Originally written for vocal group Take 6 and the Big Phat Band, the chart was re-orchestrated for...

As recorded on the Silverline Records album XXL (CD and DVD Audio) by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Originally written for vocal group Take 6 and the Big Phat Band, the chart was re-orchestrated for...

Revenge is very sweet! Gordon Goodwin is the hot writer of today's big band charts and this arrangement proves it. Count Bubba's Revenge features a shuffle swing that builds and builds. On top of that...

Revenge is very sweet! Gordon Goodwin is the hot writer of today's big band charts and this arrangement proves it. Count Bubba's Revenge features a shuffle swing that builds and builds. On top of that...

This swinger is like a high-wire act requiring speed, agility and the horsepower. Brilliant composer/arranger Gordon Goodwin penned this rapid tempo chart for his Big Phat Band and is recorded on his...

This swinger is like a high-wire act requiring speed, agility and the horsepower. Brilliant composer/arranger Gordon Goodwin penned this rapid tempo chart for his Big Phat Band and is recorded on his...

This swinger is like a high-wire act requiring speed, agility and the horsepower. Brilliant composer/arranger Gordon Goodwin penned this rapid tempo chart for his Big Phat Band and is recorded on his...

Warner Bros. Publications is proud to present this important new series, Jazz at Lincoln Center Library. Each selection was selected by the Center's musical director, Wynton Marsalis, for Essentially...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Library. is an exciting project under the artistic direction of Wynton Marsalis that is dedicated to the preservation of the jazz style and designed to honor the greats of jazz...

Warner Bros. Publications is proud to present this important series, Jazz at Lincoln Center Library. Each selection was selected by the Center's musical director, Wynton Marsalis. Each transcription i...

Warner Bros. Publications is proud to present this important series, Jazz at Lincoln Center Library. Each selection was selected by the Center's musical director, Wynton Marsalis. Each transcription i...

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...