Lush Life Music

You Took Advantage of Me has been transcribed and adapted by Jon Haprin from the Nelson Riddle chart written for Rosemary Clooney's 1961 album 'Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle'. It is a relaxed swing...

We are pleased to offer Rosemary Clooney's hard-swingin', foot-tappin' version of Get Me To The Church On Time. Lovingly transcribed and adapted by Jon Harpin from the Nelson Riddle original, this cha...

Artfully transcribed by Jon Harpin from the original Fank DeVol arrangement, this Ella Fitzgerald chart swings hard from start to finish. Much use is made of unison Sax & Trombone riffs which add buck...

Featured on Ella Fitzgerald's 1964 Johnny Mercer Song Book, this chart has been transcribed and adapted by Jon Harpin from the original Nelson Riddle chart, to make it playable by a regular 5444 big b...

This chart has been lovingly transcribed and adapted by Jon Harpin from Frank Sinatra's 1964 Reprise album 'Days of Wine and Roses'. The original arrangement was penned by Nelson Riddle. It included s...

Here is a great chart from Michael Buble. After a big and brassy opening the chart builds in layers, from solo Vocal and Bass, then a noodling Tenor sax, then the full rhythm section, then the lower r...

This fine tune was first popularized by Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra in 1945. Monroe's version included his vocal group, the Moon Maids, to add backings to his own vocal performance. In our adaptat...

This vocal chart is based around Nina Simone's great version. This chart works well even if played by Vocal and Rhythm section only. The Piano part is mostly written out.

This chart has been artfully transcribed by Jon Harpin from the original Nelson Riddle arrangement for Sinatra's 'Swing Easy' album, released in 1962 by Capitol Records (W-1429) though originally reco...

This chart has been transcribed from Frank Sinatra's 1961 album 'Swing Along With Me', released on the Reprise label. Billy May wrote the original arrangements for the album. As you might expect from...

This beauty of a chart has been artfully transcribed by Jon Harpin from the historic 1962 Sinatra-Basie album. The original arrangement was by Neal Hefti, and Jon has kept faith with it, whilst adapti...

This chart is one of fifty seven arrangements written by Nelson Riddle for the 1959 album 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book'. The project marked the first time that Fitzgera...

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 is a great up-tempo swinger, written by Oscar Peterson and to our knowledge only ever performed by the Woody Herman bands. It starts with a solo hi-hat opening with offbeat tutti accompanying phr...

Made popular by the Gene Krupa Orchestra, Leave Us Leap is a full-blooded up-tempo swing chart in which dynamics are everything. The first chorus is taken by the saxes, with punchy brass backing. Solo...

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...

Arguably the most famous number of the Charle Barnet Orchestra, Skyliner is a really punchy, up-tempo swinger, featuring a Piano intro, unison brass carrying the melodic line, with clarinet-led saxes...

Another flat-out swing chart from the earlier days of the Count Basie band. Every Tub is a quick swing chart featuring Tenor sax, Trumpet and Piano, with loads of visual possibilities too, as much of...

As part of our expanding Basie series, we are delighted to offer you the very rarely heard Aces & Faces, a medium swing tempo chart from the Basie band of 1945, featuring the Trumpet section. There ar...

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...

Sy Oliver wrote a number of memorable charts for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, such as Opus One and Swanee River. However, Well Get It is one of his finest, and yet not best known. A thumping swing char...

Flight of the Foo Birds is one of the great tracks from the Basie band of the 1950's, and one of a series done for the band by Neal Hefti, to be found on The Atomic Mr Basie album. This is a transcrip...

Made famous by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, our instrumental version of Sunny Side of the Street is taken from our Vocal version. The form and structure is based on the original Dorsey version, includi...

This arrangement is based on a 1960's Basie instrumental version, in the Neal Hefti style. It is a laid-back, relaxed swinger, mostly in ensemble but with nice counterpoint passages of unison Altos an...