Villancicos para Big Band

This beautiful Jerome Kern song was recorded by Sinatra in 1964 on the Reprise label for the 'Days Of Wine & Roses' album collaboration with Nelson Riddle. We have adapted the chart by removing the st...

Sammy Nestico, who wrote many fine scores for the Count Basie Band, has provided this laid-back Basie-style arrangement, starting with the piano and rhythm section, and then gradually building right t...

Having long since entered the pantheon of jazz standards, this version of Benny Golson's 'Stablemates' was arranged for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's 1956 State Department-sponsored big band. In many wa...

ADAPTED FROM THE RECORDING BY FRANK SINATRA ARRANGED BY NELSON RIDDLE Here's another classic Nelson Riddle arrangement from the Frank Sinatra 1956 Capitol Record 'Songs for Swingin' Lovers.' Like the...

AS RECORDED BY NAT KING COLE ARRANGED BY BILLY MAY We're pleased to publish a fine Billy May arrangement done for Nat King Cole. 'When Your Lover Has Gone' comes from the 1957 May/Cole collaboration o...

Originally entitled 'That's Where I Came In' and first recorded on 8th December 1941, 'Keep 'Em Flying' became a regularly played chart of the USAAF Band under Miller's direction. Taken at such a rapi...

Here is a transcription of the original (and best) Cute, as written by Neal Hefti for the Basie Band. It is not the 'standard' Hefti stock chart. The only change we have made is to score the chart for...

Pick Yourself Up has been lovingly transcribed by Jon Harpin from the wonderful album 'Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson', and the chart shows off the best of both vocalist and arranger. The structure...

Here is our transcription of this great standard as performed by Frank Sinatra on his 1962 Reprise album 'Sinatra and Swingin' Brass'. Neal Hefti wrote the original arrangement and conducted the studi...

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.

Another classic from the pen of Sy Oliver, and a famous tune for the Tommy Dorsey band, though much copied and adapted by other bands. Anita O'Day recorded a vocal version with Gene Krupa, and Ted Hea...

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...

A classic tune from the brothers Gershwin, we have arranged Strike Up the Band as a swing quickstep which makes an excellent set opener and is very suitable for dancing. At two minutes twenty it is no...

One of Artie Shaw's most endearing charts, Softly as a Morning Sunrise was scored as a mid-tempo swing chart for the Shaw band by Jerry Gray, later of Miller fame. We have transcibed the chart and sco...

Artie Shaw had many great swing charts to his name, but few were as punchy and as powerful as Traffic Jam. It fairly rips along at a quick 240 beats a minute, yet it never sounds forced or rushed. We...

Here is Benny Goodman's 1947 hard swinging version of Fred Fisher's enduring classic. (Please don't confuse it with the earlier, and more predictable, 1934 Henderson chart). This later version, whilst...

Here is our faithful transcription of Skippy Martin's inspirational chart written for the Les Brown band. It is not a rework of the stock chart that was published decades ago which contained many erro...

Transcribed from Peggy Lee's 1959 'Jump for Joy' album, this beautifully crafted Nelson Riddle chart swings hard from start to finish. The band writing is sublime and always gives perfect support to t...

Manhattan was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, for the Verve album 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook'. The original Buddy Bregman arrangement was scored for strings, and orchestra...

Here is our take on Nelson Riddle's chart written for Ella Fitzgerald for her 'Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson' album. We have adapted this chart by removing the strings, to make it playable with a r...

Here is our take on Doris Day's charming vocal chart for the Les Brown Orchestra, not to be confused with her 1955 show version with Percy Faith. The chart opens with an instrumental half-chorus, modu...

Adapted from Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbook recording, this chart is laid back, relaxed and easy to play. It would make a good 'change-of-pace chart' for a concert setting or live gig. The arr...

Transcribed from Natalie Cole's 'Still Unforgettable' album, this chart is a really clever fusion of old and new, as it combines elements of Nat King Cole's original recording along with his daughters...