Big Band Original-Arrangements

Di Blasio/Lowden - Grade 4-6.

One of the great all time Gershwin standards in a superb arrangement. The recorded version is in D-E. This chart is in Db-Eb to avoid awkward transpositions.

Robbie and Guy Chambers back together (at last!) for this opening number on the 'Swings Both Ways' Album. A Perfect and very playable new number for a concert or party night. Key: Bb Vocal range: A -...

This medium tempo swing chart is the lead-off cut from the CD 'Mingus Big Band 93. ' Featured is a distinctive melody, a stop-time solo section, and a great swing groove throughout.

From the album 'Rock Swings' a very effective medium groove version of the 1994 Soundgarden number in the classic Sinatra/Basie style. Available for Augmented Big Band with full strings (POW4330) The...

Big Band music at its best! - 'I'm Beginning To See The Light' des großartigen Duke Ellington war 1944/45 gleich in mehreren Versionen in den amerikanischen Charts vertreten; neben der Aufnahme des'Du...

As recorded on the brilliant CD Afrique, by the Count Basie Orchestra, and also (in another form) by the Buddy Rich Band on the CD Swingin' New Big Band. This chart is an up-tempo swing tune which jus...

John's arrangement of this jazz classic was written specifically to feature Milt Jackson with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra; however, just about any instrument can play the head at the beginning...

Here's a terrific medium swing chart (recorded by the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra on Heart and Soul) featuring a great groove, a catchy melody and the craftsmanship of jazz master John Clayton. Al...

A true big band classic, for the first time available in print. Recorded by the legendary Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra on Solid State, now available on 'The Complete Solid State Recordings of t...

This is a tour-de-force arrangement of Gershwin's masterpiece. If you can cut it, then play it because it will truly warrant a standing ovation. The sax doubles call for piccolo (alto 1), clarinet/flu...

This is hotter than hot! Dave Wolpe's expert adaptation of this tune from the Top 10 album by the Brian Setzer Orchestra really swings hard, and it doesn't let up. (Can you believe a big band CD is ne...

You want Count Basie? Nothing says Basie more than the original 'One O'Clock Jump' arrangement recreated here by Jeff Hest. Meticulously notated with Basie's simple but timeless piano solo plus transc...

Hier ist ein großartiger Chart von Michael Buble. Nach einem großen und fetzigen Anfang baut sich das Stück in Schichten auf, von Solo-Gesang und Bass, dann ein nudelndes Tenorsaxophon, dann die gesam...

Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. A superb piece which moves beautifully from a contemporary straight 8th feel to double-time swing and back again. Absolutely the best you...

There have been a lot of published charts on this tune, but this is the original version as played by and recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra. This chart should be in every jazz band library! Wonder...

As originally recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) 'Kansas City Suite - the Music of Benny Carter,' this is a medium slow Swing with more than a tinge of Gospel flavor. The trombone s...

As recorded by Count Basie on the Roulette LP (Vogue CD) 'The Legend', Benny Carter has created a marvelous, quiet, 'smoky' sounding tune ... somewhat in the vain of 'Whisper Not.' This is a wonderful...

From the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra CD Groove Shop, here is John's uptempo and energetic take on this Hoagy Carmichael favorite. Perfect as an opener, this explosive chart features tenor sax as w...

Hier ist der Superhit von Glenn Miller, authentisch transkribiert und neu erstellt von Jeff Hest! Dieses Stück ist ein Muss, um den unverwechselbaren Sound und Stil von Glenn Miller zu vermitteln. Das...

RECORDED BY THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA ARRANGED BY NEAL HEFTI Here is Neal Hefti's famous arrangement from the Count Basie Orchestra's album Atomic Basie from 1957. This has been engraved from the orig...

Diese Melodie wurde von Louis Armstrong geschrieben und von ihm einige Jahre lang als Erkennungsmelodie verwendet. Diese Version stammt aus dem Harry-James-Buch und ist nicht nur ein großartiges Tromp...

Hier ist Flying Home, transkribiert von Alan Glasscock nach dem Originalarrangement von Steve Steck, das für die Glenn Miller USAAF Band geschrieben wurde. Das Stück ist mit schwungvollen 165 b.p.m. g...