Villancicos para Big Band

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...

Written by Bobby Troup (of Route 66 fame) and arranged by Sy Oliver, this tune was a hit for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Pied Pipers. Our chart is scored for a four piece vocal group and full 5444...

Vocal Group or Solo with Group Here is another Andrews Sisters classic vocal trio chart, and our only change to the original is to augment the band parts up to a full big band line up. The chart opens...

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...

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...

This arrangement of Don't Fence Me In is the version recorded by Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters in 1944. We have faithfully reproduced this chart, even down to the level of correctly detailing t...

Here is Ella Mae Morse's Blacksmith Blues, written for her by Jack Holmes. This song was originally the flipside to Love Me or Leave Me, issued in 1952 by Capitol Records, and it became her biggest hi...

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...

Expertly transcribed by Alan Glasscock from the original Bill Finegan chart for Tommy Dorsey, this catchy and bouncy tune was lifted by the writers from Charlie Parker's 'Now's the Time', so will be i...

The Lincolnshire Poacher is a traditional English song, given the full swing treatment by the Ted Heath band. This chart is up, bouncy and always a crowd pleaser. The chart itself is very straight ahe...

When you say Intermission Riff, the first name that pops up is usually Stan Kenton. However, other bands also covered this Ray Wetzel tune, and we offer you the Ted Heath version here, originally arra...

Together Again is another Hefti chart from Basie's 1962 album 'On My Way and Shoutin' Again', transcribed by Jon Harpin. This chart has stylistic similarities to Flight of the Foo Birds (from 'The Ato...

Swing @ 76b.p.m. Here is our transcription of the Bobby Pratt version of Sleepy Time Down South, as performed with the Ted Heath band. Bobby was a gifted trumpeter and a great high note player who die...

Written by band member Kenny Graham for Ted Heath's 1956 Australian tour, Kings Cross Climax is a big drum feature. The chart opens at a rapid speed, with a drum solo and a big pyramid build-up from t...

Written by band member and English Trumpet legend Kenny Baker, this up-tempo swinger features the Trumpets. After the opening chorus and bridge there is a Tenor solo (written out, but can be ad-lib fr...

'How High The Moon' is a fast paced, hard-swinging, rip-roaring chart from the Ray Anthony band that will make a great showcase for soloists in your band. The chart opens Db with alternating sectional...

Elegantly transcribed by Jon Harpin from Basie's 1962 Verve album 'On My Way and Shoutin' Again', this Neal Hefti chart has a real gospel feel to it, and swings like crazy from start to finish. The op...

This Frank Foster chart was first recorded in the mid 1950's on Basie's'April In Paris' album released on the Verve label. Our transcription is true to the original except that we have augmented the T...

Here is our transcription of Frank Sinatra's great rendition of 'Learnin' the Blues', as performed with the Count Basie band. The original arrangement was by Neal Hefti. Aside from Sinatra's vocal int...

Another swinging tune from the writing partnership of Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne. This version was originally arranged by Marty Paich and recorded by Ella Fitzgerald on her Whisper Not album. Our version...

Frank Sinatra's chart of Day In Day Out was originally arranged by the late, great Billy May, and it has been lovingly transcribed for you here by Jon Harpin. This arrangement settles into a swinging...