1920s Orchestra Transcriptions: 

$8 per chart

Note: The instrumentation is almost always for an 11-piece group (pretty much the standard big band instrumentation for the years 1925-1934). That is, 3 saxes (2 altos + tenor), 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, piano, banjo/guitar, tuba/bass, violin, drums. Most of the vocals are one chorus and can be easily replaced by a solo (or solos) if you don't have a vocalist. When there is a vocal, most of the time there is no vocal part written, although a lead sheet or some kind of lyric guide is provided.

CUSTOM TRANSCRIPTIONS - If you have a particular recording that you'd like to have transcribed, please ask me. If it is something I like and/or can use for my own band, I might do it very cheaply ($25-$75). I will transcribe almost anything, though, for a fee (the high side would be about $300). To inquire, please send a sound file of the recording you want transcribed to: bigbandmusicguy@aol.com. Then I'll get right back to you with a price.

Many of these transcriptions and arrangements can be heard on my band web site: http://crazyrhythm.com/

All That Jazz/Overture (from Movie "Chicago") (female vocal)

An' Furthermore ('28 Irving Aaronson) (vocal trio)

An' Furthermore ('27 Beth Challis Orch.) (female vocal)

Alone At Last ('25 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) (male vocal)

Big John's Special ('34 Fletcher Henderson)

Black Beauty ('28 Duke Ellington)

Borneo ('28 Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, et.al) (male vocal)

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? ('32 Bing Crosby/Lennie Heyton) (male vocal)

Button Up Your Overcoat ('28 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

Cantina Band (Star Wars Movie)

Casey Jones Blues ('29 Andy Kirk) (male vocal)

Changes ('27 Paul Whiteman) (Copied From Bill Challis Score) (male vocal trio)

Clementine From New Orleans ('27 Jean Goldkette)

Cotton Club Stomp ('29 Duke Ellington)

Cotton Club Stomp ('30 Duke Ellington)

Dangerous Nan McGrew ('30 Helen Kane)

Dance Of The Cuckoos (Laurel & Hardy) (2 clarinets only) $2

Daybreak Express Medley ('33-'34 Duke Ellington) (Cotton Club Movie Soundtrack)

Dinah ('31 Bing Crosby & Mills Bros.) (male vocal)

Do Something ('28 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

Don't Be Like That ('28 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

Double Check Stomp ('30 Duke Ellington)  

Down South Camp Meeting ('34 Fletcher Henderson)

Drop Me Off In Harlem ('33 Duke Ellington)

East St. Louis Toodle-OO ('27 Duke Ellington)

Everybody Loves My Baby ('32 Boswell Sisters) (vocal trio)

Everybody Stomp! ('25 Andy Preer)

Goin' Nuts ('29 Duke Ellington)

Good Old Days ('30 Little Rascals Theme)

Guy What Takes His Time, A ('32 Mae West) (female vocal)

He's So Unusual ('29 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

Honolulu Baby ('33 Laurel & Hardy) (male vocal)

Hummin' To Myself ('32 Ambrose) (female vocal)

I Wanna Be Loved By You ('28 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

I Want To Be Bad ('28 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

I'll Never Be The Same ('32 Carroll Gibbons) (female vocal)

Ill Wind (Cotton Club Movie Soundtrack) (female vocal)

I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird ('24 Clarence Williams, expanded) (female vocal)

 

Inka Dinka Doo ('34 Jimmy Durante) (male vocal)

 

Is There Anything Wrong In That? ('28 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

 

It Don't Mean A Thing ('32 Duke Ellington) (female vocal)

 

It Happened In Sun Valley ('41 Glenn Miller) (male vocal)

 

It Must Be True (Palm Court Theatre Court Orchestra)

 

It's Love ('31 Gus Arnheim) (female vocal)

 

Jazz Baby (vocal, C) (Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie) (female vocal)

 

Jazz Baby (vocal, Eb) (Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie) (female vocal)

 

Jazznocracy ('34 Jimmie Lunceford)

 

Jungle Nights In Harlem ('31 Duke Ellington)

 

‘Leven Thirty Saturday Night ('30 Ambrose) (male vocal)

 

Maori ('30 Duke Ellington)  

 

May I? ('34 Bing Crosby/Matt Finston Orch.) (male vocal)

 

Me And The Man In The Moon ('28 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

 

Me Minus You ('32 Rudy Vallee) (male vocal)

 

Midnight With The Stars And You ('34 Ray Noble) (male vocal)

 

Minnie The Moocher ('31 Cab Calloway) (male vocal)

 

Miss Hannah ('29 McKinney's Cotton Pickers)

 

Mooch, The ('28 Duke Ellington)

 

Mood Indigo ('30 Duke Ellington)

 

Moonlight Savings Time ('31, Jack Payne) (male vocal)

 

Moten Stomp ('27 Bennie Moten)

 

My Pretty Girl ('27 Jean Goldkette)  

 

Never In A Million Years ('37 Ben Bernie/Buddy Clark) (male vocal)

 

New Call Of The Freaks, The ('29 Luis Russell)

 

Nighthawk Blues ('24 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) (male vocal duet)

 

Oh! If I Only Had You ('26 Ted Weems) (vocal trio)

 

Oh! Miss Hannah ('29 Paul Whiteman) (male vocal)

 

 

Overture/All That Jazz (from Movie "Chicago") (female vocal)

 

Ozark Mountain Blues ('29 Missourians)

 

Peggy ('29 McKinney's Cotton Pickers)

 

Please ('32 Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orch.) key of Ab (male vocal)

 

Please ('32 Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orch.) record key (A) (male vocal)

 

Radio Rhythm (Fletcher Henderson, 1931)

 

Rent Party Blues ('29 Duke Ellington)

 

Rhapsody In Blue (From '24 Ferdie Grofe Score) $17

 

Ring Dem Bells ('30 Duke Ellington)

 

Rockin' In Rhythm ('31 Duke Ellington)

 

Singin' The Blues ('27 Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, et.al)

 

Skirts ('30 Slatz Randall)

 

Smile When The Raindrops Fall ('30 Laurel & Hardy)

 

Solace (Scott Joplin, "The Sting" Soundtrack)

 

Some Sweet Day ('28 McKinney's Cotton Pickers)

 

Stampede ('26 Fletcher Henderson)

 

Stevedore Stomp ('29 Duke Ellington)

 

Sunday ('26 Jean Goldkette) (female vocal + male vocal trio)

 

Sweet Georgia Brown ('32 Bing Crosby) (male vocal)

 

That's My Weakness Now ('28 Helen Kane) (female vocal)

 

They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk ('33 Mae West) (female vocal)

 

Tiger Rag ('29 Duke Ellington)

 

Toby ('32 Bennie Moten)

 

Truckin' ('35 Duke Ellington)

 

Variety Stomp ('25 Fletcher Henderson)

 

Vine St. Drag ('29 Missourians)

 

Waitin' For Katie ('27 Ben Pollack)  (male vocal trio)     

 

What About Me ('34 George Hall) (female vocal)

 

What A Girl! What A Night! ('28 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) (male vocal duet)

 

When (from original '28 Paul Whiteman/George Gershwin score)

 

Wrappin' It Up ('34 Fletcher Henderson)

 

Yam Brown (Keith Nichols/Duke Ellington)

 

Yiddisha Charleston ('26 Sam Lannin Dixie Daisies)  (male vocal) 

 

You ('23 Roy Schoenbeck)

1920s Orchestra Arrangements:

$8 per chart

CUSTOM ARRANGEMENTS - I will do a 1920s Orchestra arrangement of any song for $25-$100 (depending upon factors such as how much I like the song, and my availability, etc.). Please inquire: bigbandmusicguy@aol.com

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