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Based on the chord changes to Stella By Starlight by Victor Young, this swinging chart is a workout for the full ensemble. Written for beginning groups, everyone gets a turn at the melody, and there a...

Recorded by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra on the album New Life, this fast swing original opens with a full-band statement and a short piano solo before the trumpet soloist steps into the spotlig...

Recorded by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra on the album New Life, this fast swing original opens with a full-band statement and a short piano solo before the trumpet soloist steps into the spotlig...

Recorded by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra on the album New Life, this fast swing original opens with a full-band statement and a short piano solo before the trumpet soloist steps into the spotlig...

This medium shuffle chart is a simple tune composed by Jerome Richardson, loosely based on The Preacher by Horace Silver. Thad's arrangement features the SATTB saxophone section, and is playable by ad...

This medium shuffle chart is a simple tune composed by Jerome Richardson, loosely based on The Preacher by Horace Silver. Thad's arrangement features the SATTB saxophone section, and is playable by ad...

This medium shuffle chart is a simple tune composed by Jerome Richardson, loosely based on The Preacher by Horace Silver. Thad's arrangement features the SATTB saxophone section, and is playable by ad...

This classic chart is taken directly from the original ink parts that were on the stands at the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) debut performance in February 1966...

This classic chart is taken directly from the original ink parts that were on the stands at the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) debut performance in February 1966...

This classic chart is taken directly from the original ink parts that were on the stands at the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) debut performance in February 1966...

This new advanced level edition is taken directly from the original ink parts that were on the stands at the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) debut performance in...

This new advanced level edition is taken directly from the original ink parts that were on the stands at the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) debut performance in...

Our 4th offering in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Signature Editions, is Once Around. This fast swing advanced level chart was among the first charts Thad Jones wrote for the new band in 1966, as a more...

Our 4th offering in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Signature Editions, is Once Around. This fast swing advanced level chart was among the first charts Thad Jones wrote for the new band in 1966, as a more...

Our 4th offering in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Signature Editions, is Once Around. This fast swing advanced level chart was among the first charts Thad Jones wrote for the new band in 1966, as a more...

Great writing in the Basie tradition is presented here for developing jazz musicians, featuring accessible brass ranges, notated rhythm section parts, and flexible instrumentation requirements. It eve...

New York City based writer Jim Cifelli has crafted another tasty swing chart in this jazz waltz entitled Blues for McCoy. The tune's main melody is presented first as a small ensemble comprised of sax...

The perfect holiday season chart for your Christmas concert, this arrangement features two swing versions of the all-time favorites 'Jolly Old Saint Nicholas' and 'Up On The Housetop!' Santa brought t...

Questo brano è stato scritto da Louis Armstrong e da lui utilizzato come sigla per diversi anni. Questa versione è tratta dal libro di Harry James e non è solo una grande caratteristica della tromba,...

Ecco Flying Home, trascritto da Alan Glasscock dall'arrangiamento originale di Steve Steck per la Glenn Miller USAAF band. Il brano è scritto a 165 b.p.m. e presenta assoli per Tenore 1 (scritto, con...

Where or When" era uno dei brani preferiti di Frank Sinatra fin dai suoi esordi con la Tommy Dorsey band. Questa versione è una trascrizione dello schema di Billy Byers che usò con la band di Basie "L...

Questa è la versione di Ellington del 1966 del grande brano di Strayhorn, con l'assolo di tromba di Cootie Williams (scritto sulla quarta parte) trascritto per intero. Questa versione presenta anche u...

Ecco la nostra interpretazione del classico di Walter Donaldson, Makin Whoopee, eseguito dall'orchestra Count Baie. Questo brano presenta il trombone (originariamente suonato da Al Grey) quasi dall'in...

Questo brano di Jimmy Van Heusen / Sammy Cahn fu originariamente scritto per il film rat-packesco "Robin e i sette cappucci". Meravigliosamente melodico e visivamente emozionante in concerto, è stato...

Witchcraft è una canzone originariamente scritta appositamente per Frank Sinatra e successivamente coverizzata da altri cantanti. Questa è la versione di Helen O'Connell, semplicemente stupenda, e il...