1920s band charts
Authentic 1920s band charts (transcriptions and arrangements for 1920s bands or orchestras)

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Authentic 1920s band charts (transcriptions and arrangements for 1920s bands or orchestra, if “chart” is an arrangement (a full 1920s band/orchestra sheet music orchestration), it includes all of the parts for all of the instruments.

To clarify, a “chart” is an arrangement (a full 1920s band/orchestra sheet music orchestration), it includes all of the parts for all of the instruments.

The 1920s band charts here are either note-for-note transcriptions from the recordings or original arrangements in the 1920s style. In many cases, even the solos are transcribed. In most cases, the style is from the 1920s and early 1930s. Songs that say “arrangement” are my own arrangements.

Note: The instrumentation of 1920s band charts (also called “1920s orchestra”) is almost always for an 11-piece group. 11-pc groups were pretty much the standard 1920s big band instrumentation for the years 1925-1934). Mostly, the standard was 3 saxes (2 altos + tenor), 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, piano, banjo/guitar, tuba/bass, violin, drums. Some of the charts have vocals or vocal trios (usually one chorus) and can be easily replaced by a solo (or solos) if you don’t have a vocalist. A few of these charts are basically “all” vocal (i.e., beginning to end) and are noted as “vocals.” Scores come with the charts that are in Finale. The earlier “manuscript” charts do not come with scores.

Note: There are also some 1920s band arrangements for 6-piece combo that you might be able to adapt for your 1920s orchestra (see “Combo Charts & Misc.“).

If a chart is a transcription, it should sound very much like the recording. For many of the arrangements and original compositions of mine, I have mp3 recordings. Please ask me for specific titles and I will send them to you.

I also do custom work (transcriptions, arrangements, film scoring, karaoke tracks, etc.). So, please click on ” Custom Work” (above) if interested. Similarly, please check out mikehenebry.com (where I sell my original compositions).

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The discounts below (except the whole library) are applied automatically. On the other hand, if you want a different amount of charts, please email me at bigbandmusicguy@aol.com and I’ll give you a separate quote for your order.  Or, if you would like to buy the whole library, email me bigbandmusicguy@aol.com and I’ll send you an invoice (which you can pay through PayPal or a credit card).

6 charts (30% discount) = $42 (= $7 each)

8 charts (40% discount) = $48 (= $6 each)

10 charts (50% discount) = $50 (= $5 each)

25 charts (60% discount) = $100 (= $4 each)

50 charts (70% discount) = $150 (= $3 each)

In addition, in between amounts (7 charts, 15 charts, 36 charts, etc.) will get the discounts too. Further, the same discount applies to all charts, solos and booklets on this web site.

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THE 1920s BAND CHARTS:

Accordion Joe (’30 Cornell and His Orchestra)

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Ain’t She Sweet (arrangement)

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April Showers (arrangement)

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All I Do is Dream of You (’34 Ray Noble w/ Al Bowlly) (with optional 4th sax)

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

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Alone At Last (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, ’25)

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Am I Blue? (’29 Ben Selvin w/ Smith Ballew)

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An’ Furthermore (’28 Irving Aaronson)

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An’ Furthermore (’27 Beth Challis Orch.)

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Auld Lang Syne (Guy Lombardo)

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Big John’s Special (’34 Fletcher Henderson)

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Black Beauty (’28 Duke Ellington)

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Bourbon St. Parade (arrangement) clarinet, alto, tenor, trumpet trombone + rhythm

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Borneo (’28 Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, et.al)

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Blue Room (arrangement)

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Blue Moon (’35 Ray Noble/Al Bowlly)

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

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Button Up Your Overcoat (’28 Helen Kane)

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Cantina Band (Star Wars Movie)

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Casey Jones Blues (’29 Andy Kirk)

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Changes (’27 Paul Whiteman) (Copied From Bill Challis Score)

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Chant, The (based on CJ Sams arrangement)

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Clementine From New Orleans (’27 Jean Goldkette)

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Cotton Club Stomp (’29 Duke Ellington)

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Cotton Club Stomp (’30 Duke Ellington)

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Crazy Charleston (original composition)

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Crazy Rhythm (arrangement)

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Cushion Foot Stomp (arrangement)

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Dangerous Nan McGrew (’30 Helen Kane)

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

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

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Dinah (’32 Cab Calloway)

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Dinah (’31 Bing Crosby & Mills Bros.)

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Do Something (’28 Helen Kane)

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Don’t Be Like That (’28 Helen Kane)

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Double Check Stomp (’30 Duke Ellington)

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Down South Camp Meeting (’34 Fletcher Henderson)

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Drop Me Off In Harlem (’33 Duke Ellington)

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

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Embraceable You (female vocal) (arrangement)

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Everybody Loves My Baby (’32 Boswell Sisters)

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Everybody Stomp! (’25 Andy Preer)

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From The Top Of Your Head (male vocal) (arrangement)

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Get ‘Em In A Rumble Seat (1927) (male vocal duet) (arrangement)

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Gimme A Little Kiss (arrangement)

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Glad Rag Doll (’28 Golden Gate Orch. aka California Ramblers)

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Glad Rag Doll (arrangement)

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Goin’ Nuts (’29 Duke Ellington)

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Good-Little Bad-Little You (arrangement)

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Good Old Days (’30 Little Rascals Theme)

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Guy What Takes His Time, A (’32 Mae West)

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Harlem Bound (’33 Freddy Johson & His Harlemites)

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Heartaches (’33 Ted Weems)

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He’s So Unusual (’29 Helen Kane)

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Honolulu Baby (’33 Laurel & Hardy)

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Hora Medley (arrangement)

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How Could Red Riding Hood? (arrangement)

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How Long Will It Last? (male vocal) (arrangement)

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Hummin’ To Myself (’32 Ambrose)

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I’d Rather Be Blue Over You (’29 Louis Katzman & the Brunswick Orch.)

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If You Knew Susie (arrangement)

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It Had To Be You (arrangement)

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I Found A Million Dollar Baby (arrangement)

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I Wanna Be Loved By You (arrangement)

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I’ve Got A Crush On You (female vocal) (arrangement)

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I Wanna Be Loved By You (’28 Helen Kane)

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I Want To Be Bad (’28 Helen Kane)

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I’ll Never Be The Same (’32 Carroll Gibbons)

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I’m A Little Blackbird Looking For a Bluebird (’24 Clarence Williams & His Blue Five) (expanded)

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

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

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It Must Be True (Palm Court Theatre Court Orchestra)

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Is There Anything Wrong In That? (’28 Helen Kane)

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It Don’t Mean A Thing (’32 Duke Ellington)

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It Happened In Sun Valley (’41 Glenn Miller)

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It’s All Forgotten Now (’34 New Mayfair Orchestra with Al Bowlly)

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It’s Love (’31 Gus Arnheim)

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

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

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Jazznocracy (’34 Jimmie Lunceford)

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Jungle Nights In Harlem (’31 Duke Ellington)

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Just One More Chance (male vocal) (arrangement)

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Keep Your Sunny Side Up (’29 Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders)

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Let’s Misbehave (arrangement)

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Let’s Misbehave (a la Bordoni) (female vocal) (arrangement)

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‘Leven Thirty Saturday Night (’30 Ambrose)

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Love Is Here To Stay (arrangement)

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Love Is The Sweetest Thing (arrangement)

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Ma! (He’s Making Eyes At Me) (arrangement)

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Margie (arrangement)

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Maori (’30 Duke Ellington)

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May I? (’34 Bing Crosby/Matt Finston Orch.)

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Me And The Man In The Moon (’28 Helen Kane)

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Me Minus You (’32 Rudy Vallee)

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Merrily We Roll Along $5

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Midnight With The Stars And You (’34 Ray Noble)

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

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Miss Hannah (’29 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers)

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Mooch, The (’28 Duke Ellington)

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Mood Indigo (’30 Duke Ellington)

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Moonlight Bay (arrangement)

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Moonlight Savings Time (’31, Jack Payne)

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Moten Stomp (’27 Bennie Moten)

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My Pretty Girl (’27 Jean Goldkette)

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Nagasaki (arrangement)

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

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

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New Orleans Twist (expanded) (’35 Gene Gifford & His Orch.)

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

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Oh! If I Only Had You (’26 Ted Weems)

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Oh! Johnny (arrangement)

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Oily Rag (original composition)

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Oh! Miss Hannah (’29 Paul Whiteman)

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Oh! You Beautiful Doll (arrangement)

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One Hour With You (arrangement)

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Ozark Mountain Blues (’29 Missourians)

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Peggy (’29 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers)

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Play A Simple Melody (vocal duet) (arrangement)

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Please (’32 Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orch.) key of Ab

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Please (’32 Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orch.) record key (A)

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Radio (arrangement)

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Radio Rhythm (Fletcher Henderson, 1931)

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Rent Party Blues (’29 Duke Ellington)

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Rhapsody In Blue (From ’24 Ferdie Grofe Score) $25

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Rhythm Man (’32 Casa Loma Orchestra)

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Ring Dem Bells (’30 Duke Ellington)

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Rockin’ In Rhythm (’31 Duke Ellington)

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Royal Garden Blues (’30 Casa Loma Orchestra)

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Saxophobia (arrangement)

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Singin’ The Blues (’27 Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, et.al) $8

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Sittin’ on a Rubbish Can (’31 Julia Gerity)

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Skirts (’30 Slatz Randall)

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

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Solace (Scott Joplin, “The Sting” Soundtrack)

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

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Stampede (’26 Fletcher Henderson)

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Stevedore Stomp (’29 Duke Ellington)

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Sunday (’26 Jean Goldkette)

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Sunshine (arrangement)

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Sweet Georgia Brown (’32 Bing Crosby)

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Sweet Man (’25 California Ramblers)

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Swing Era Medley (with some female vocals) $20 (long) (arrangement)

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

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That’s What I Like About You (arrangement)

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There’s Too Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes at Two Pretty Eyes I Love (’29 Ted Weems)

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They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk (’33 Mae West)

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Thoroughly Modern Millie (arrangement)

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Tiger Rag (’29 Duke Ellington)

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Toby (’32 Bennie Moten)

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Toot Toot Tootsie (arrangement)

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Train Kept a-Rollin’ (1951 Tiny Bradshaw)

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Truckin’ (’35 Duke Ellington)

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Variety Stomp (’25 Fletcher Henderson)

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Vine St. Drag (’29 Missourians)

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Waitin’ For Katie (’27 Ben Pollack)

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What About Me (’34 George Hall)

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What A Day! (’29 Ted Weems)

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What A Girl! What A Night! (’28 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks)

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When (from original ’28 Paul Whiteman score)

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When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo (arrangement)

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(Make My Cot) Where The Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows (arrangement)

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Who? (arrangement)

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Wrappin’ It Up (’34 Fletcher Henderson)

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Yam Brown (Keith Nichols/Duke Ellington)

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Yiddisha Charleston (’26 Sam Lannin Dixie Daisies)

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You (’23 Roy Schoenbeck)

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You Hit The Spot (’35 Richard Himber and His Ritz Carlton Orchestra) (with optional 4th sax)

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There are also some 1920s arrangements for 6-piece combo that you might be able to adapt (see “Combo Charts & Misc.“).