Big Band Original-Arrangements

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...