Glenn Miller

Oh! So Good is a rarely heard up-tempo swing chart from the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Written by Jerry Gray, the chart features solos for Trumpet 2, Tenor, Trombone Piano and Drums. The initial opening...

Conversation Piece is a beautifully crafted medium tempo chart written around September 1940 by Bill Finegan for the Miller band. The saxes are scored for 3 Altos and two Tenors, with Alto 2 taking a...

'Slip Horn Jive' is a bright, up-tempo, hard-driving swing chart from the Glenn Miller book. The original arrangement was by Eddie Durham and was scored for 6 brass. We have augmented our version up t...

First recorded by the Miller band in December 1941 and released early in 1942 on Bluebird 11401, this version was a 10 week best seller in the USA. This fine transcription from Alan Glasscock is writt...

Here is Glenn Miller's hit chart 'I've Got a Gal In Kalamazoo', as originally recorded with Tex Beneke and the Modernaires. The only adjustments that we have made to the studio version is to add in an...

A classic Glenn Miller chart from the early days of the band, with vocals by Ray Eberle, and featuring the Miller trademarks of Clarinet-led reeds over brass in plungers, a great modulation to the voc...

Swing @ 210 b.p.m. 'It Happened in Sun Valley' was written for the 1941 film 'Sun Valley Serenade', featuring Sonja Henie, John Payne and the Glenn Miller Orchestra with the Modernaires. We have recre...

My Melancholy Baby is a rare chart from the Glenn Miller Orchestra, originally arranged by Bill Finegan and transcribed here by Alan Glasscock. It is 'as played' by the Miller Band, except that we hav...

This chart is an absolute vocal classic from Ray Eberle and the Modernaires with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Alan Glasscock's fine transcription of Jerry Gray's chart is true to the original in every...

This is a faithful transcription of the 1941 Billy May arrangement as recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with Paula Kelly and the Modernaires. The chart is scored for 5444, Girl vocalist and 4 pi...

Ida' is an early Billy May chart for the Glenn Miller orchestra which shows May's fine early writing stye at its best. We have scored the male vocal independenly from Beneke's original Tenor part, the...

Boy/Girl & vocal backing group Billy May wrote many outstanding charts for the Miller band, and this is one of his finest. The writing is moody, sometimes dark, but harmonically rich and full. It cont...

From the pen of Jerry Gray for the Glenn Miller USAAF Orchestra, this up-tempo swing chart features the piano, (originally Mel Powell) as well as the drums in the shout chorus. This chart is essential...

This song was written by Mel Powell when he was pianist with the Goodman orchestra, and it was a hit in 1942. Glenn Miller, whilst in charge of the US Army Air Force Training Command Band, used it as...

Another Bill Finegan masterpiece, Tail End Charlie was made famous by Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Training Command Band as one of a series of numbers that were patriotic and supported the war effort...

This is Glenn Miller's version that was originally performed by the Modernaires vocal group, except that we have turned it into an instrumental, whilst keeping the form true to the original. The band...

Glen Island Special is a very quick swing chart written by Eddie Durham for the Glenn Miller band, and on first hearing it you could be forgiven for thinking it to be a Basie chart. At 240 beats per m...

Co-written by Chummy MacGregor (Miller's pianist) and George 'The Silver Fox' Williams (who wrote extensively for Ray Anthony) this Glenn Miller chart is both an excellent swing chart, as well as bein...

Long Tall Mama is a solid swing chart written for the Glenn Miller band by Billy May , though credited to his wife Arletta for fiscal reasons at the time. Miller recorded this with his civilian and US...

A fine Jerry Gray composition for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, our chart is a transcription of Miller's USAAF band version from early 1944 recorded in the UK. The arrangement is a great dance chart for...

Glenn Miller recorded this chart in July 1942 Victor 20-1509-B, as the B-side to Juke Box Saturday Night. The original arrangement is credited to George Williams who also arranged extensively for Lunc...

Here is an absolute classic from the Glenn Miller Orchestra and a 'must have'' for every band's library. The original GMO chart was scored by Jerry Gray at a time when the GMO only carried 6 brass. We...

Our chart has been transcribed from the fine Jerry Gray chart written for the Glenn Miller band. Originally scored for six brass, we have augmented it up to a full eight voices. The Alto and Trumpet s...

'I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem' was not recorded in the studio until January 1941, though the Miller band aired this tune half a dozen times over the raidio in November and December 1940. Our chart has b...

Whilst never commercailly recorded by the Miller band because the chart's playing time was too long to fit onto a 78rpm record, The Hour of Parting was an often played number in the Miller book. The o...