As on the 'Live at the Albert' DVD. The added strings, as on the 'Live at the Albert' DVD, plus flutes and clarinets, create a superb concert number which is bound to be appreciated by your audiences....
From 'Rock Swings'. This is the number featured by Paul Anka on his 2005 TV appearances promoting the album. This is bound to be popular with your audience.Key Ab throughout. Key: Ab Vocal range: Eb -...
Originally made famous by Sammy Davis Jr.& featured by Robbie on the 'Live at Knebworth' & 'Swing when you're winning' albums. This is probably Robbie's best known swing number. Key F as recorded.
Robbie Williams Big Band number from 'Swing When You're Winning', as recorded by Robbie with Jane Horricks.
Big band vocal with optional full strings plus two flutes and two Bb clarinets, as featured by Robbie Williams in his Albert Hall concert and on the DVD 'Live at the Albert'. Includes optional high/lo...
From the album 'Come Fly with Me' by M. Buble. After a powerful intro this chart settles into a relaxed groove before steadily building to show stopping ending.Key Bb as recorded but simplified arrang...
Big Band Girl Vocal. From the album 'Congratulations to Someone'. We think this superb ballad is quite a discovery and a great addition to any concert. It starts very dreamily with just a rhythm secti...
Big Band Girl Vocal. From the Dakota Staton album 'Congratulation to Someone'. A really hard driving mid tempo blues groove number with plenty of punchy brass fills -this should wake up your audience....
This great arrangement penned by Jerry Sheppard opens with a Rio Carnival parade style fanfare, leading into a smooth modern samba rhythm with the lead shared between flugel / trombone and the sax sec...
Originally made famous by Sammy Davis Jr.& featured by Robbie on the 'Live at Knebworth' & 'Swing when you're winning' albums. Strings are as recorded, plus an optional solo violin to accompany the la...
From the album 'Patsy Cline-20 Golden Hits',with the original piano intro/fills/ending and Patsy Cline's phrasing transcribed. Includes a really laid back 16 bar instrumental section with muted trumpe...
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...
A superb Medium Easy slow bossa arranged by Jerry Sheppard as a feature for two Fugelhorns (or Bb clarinets) with full band backing and a specially written Latin bass line. The piece is introduced by...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Big Band Girl Vocal. From the Dakota Staton album 'Congratulations to Someone'. Right from bar one this powerful version really grabs your attention with its pedal trombone line and driving 6/8 backin...
This new version offers the excitement of the original professional level Phil Collins Big Band chart, but with 1st trumpet no higher than B and 1st trombone no higher than G. From the album 'A Hot Ni...
The funky disco groove 1970's film theme (featured on the album Disco Classics) for full Big Band. A really effective but not difficult chart. Key G.
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...
From the Natalie Cole album 'Unforgetable With Love'. A particularly fine medium groove Ralph Burns arrangement in the classic relaxed 'Basie' style-the perfect combination of singer and big band.Key...
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...
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 great medium beat number from Jools Holland's 'Small World Big Band' album, with backing girl vocals. Keyboard includes synth. strings.
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...
Big Band Ska Style Vocal by Jools Holland & Suggs. Transcribed by Jerry Sheppard.
An exciting full band arrangement of this Latin Rock classic. Suitable for student bands with trombones cued onto saxes. Written out piano, tenor and optional alternative flute/trombone/guitar solos w...
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...
This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
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...
Big Band Girl Vocal. Adapted by Jerry Sheppard for intermediate level ensemble from Natalie Cole's 'Unforgettable' album and in the same key. A really lively up tempo chart with a 'get up and go' feel...