Stateside Collection

BIG BAND GIRL VOCAL - STUDENT EDITION. A full band relaxed swing Jerry Sheppard arrangement of this great ballad- well within the capabilities of most school swing bands. The brass and sax sections ar...

Get your band into that Jazz Jamaica Groove with this Jamiroquai / Jools Holland Ska Version from 'Small World Big Band' (Includes optional alternative trombone solo part). Key C. Down a Minor 3rd and...

A chart by Jerry Sheppard presenting this great modern standard in a big band format. This is a really effective, but not difficult, mid tempo number. All sections are featured, plus written suggested...

Recorded by Don Lusher with the Ted Heath Band. This superb slow blues trombone feature has been tr. by Jerry Sheppard. Top note for trombone solo: G above middle C. The steadily building full band ba...

This Easy Grade medium beat instrumental arrangement is based on the vocal version by the 60's soul group The Tymes. No jazz solos, but a very effective number for student bands. Top note G for lead t...

A bright latin/swing Jerry Sheppard arrangement. Includes a lively unison vocal/sax. chase chorus as well as two eight bar written out trombone and tenor solo breaks and a scat ending which could be e...

We have found that this standard is as popular as ever with student bands. Our arrangement includes the classic Ellington four bar piano introduction, with saxes then taking the lead. Written out solo...

Recreate the fabulous sound of the Clarke-Boland band of the 1970s with this laid back swing arrangement, with muted trumpet solo with sax and trombone backing, sax feature 'chase' section and full ba...

Enthält opt. Stimmen: Violine 1 und 2, Viola, Cello, 2 Flöten und 2 Klarinetten. A great medium groove swing version as recorded by Count Basie with Joe Williams and also featured by Tony Bennett with...

A relaxed 4/4 arrangement, based on the Quincy Jones version from the album 'This Time by Basie' recently re-released on the Reprise label. Mainly featuring the sax section but including muted trumpet...

A hard driving 6/8 Gospel Blues style chart, as recorded by Woody Herman. Key F. This tremendous arrangement has all the gutsy feel of the original Charlie Mingus version on 'Mingus Mingus Mingus'. Tr...

One of the finest modern ballads re-created here as an alto sax feature, plus lyrics for optional girl vocal (keys C/ Eb). Includes the extended classical style intro. from the Van Morrison album 'Ava...

From the album 'Buddy Rich at Ronnie Scott's'. This Ellington standard is always a great vehicle for solos. The chart has very playable written out solos for Tenor Sax and Trumpet and also includes dr...

Based on the real flag waving Quincy Jones/Count Basie version from 'This Time by Basie' transcribed by Jerry Sheppard. Basie took this at a cracking 250 beats per minute. However it works equally wel...

The Quincy Jones / Count Basie version. Great section writing, plus written out tenor and piano solos. A superb swing number. Key C minor.

One of the all time great standards. After a solo piano introduction the lyrical melody played by the 1st tenor sax is combined with an underlying 6/4 jazz swing backing from the rhythm section, with...

Based on the laid back Quincy Jones arrangement on the album 'This Time by Basie' and very much in the style of Neil Hefti's 'L'il Darlin'.' Includes a written out very playable lyrical trumpet solo....

This up-tempo classic swing number has proved to be one of the most popular titles in our catalogue. Top note A for lead trumpet. Lively, but not difficult, written out solos for trumpet and tenor sax...

This is a version scored for 2 Flutes, 2 Bb Clarinets, 3 Alto Saxes, Tenor Sax, Bari Sax, 4 Trumpets, Optional Trombone and 4 Rhythm.

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Jimmy Forrest took the 12 bar blues based 'Happy Go Lucky Local' created by Duke Ellington and turned it into this incredibly effective jazz standard popularized by Jimmy Smith and many others. With o...