Big Band Charts (arrangements and transcriptions).
Big Band Charts, Big Band Arrangements, Big Band Transcriptions Big Band Charts $15 per chart (unless otherwise noted) To clarify, a “chart” is an arrangement (a full orchestration), it includes all of the parts for all of the instruments. These Big Band Charts are, generally, note-for-note transcriptions of the big band charts that the original band recorded. And, in many cases, even the solos are transcribed. The big band charts here are big band arrangements and big band transcriptions, “charts.” In most cases, the style is big band swing from the 1930s and 1940s. The charts that say “arrangement” are my own arrangements. Be sure to check out the “Orchestra & Strings ” link above too. There are some charts with Big Band + Strings (and most of the time the strings are optional) or full orchestra + Big Band.
Instrumentation: Big Band Charts Note: The instrumentation varies a little from chart to chart (usually from 13-17-pieces). With the 13-piece charts, usually there is no guitar (although the piano part can be used since the chords are always noted). So, the real range is from 14 to 17-piece.
The instrumentation is noted by three numbers (saxes, trumpets, trombones). For example, 532 = 5 saxes, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, 544 = 5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, etc. Almost all have 5 saxes, there are usually 3 or 4 trumpets, and 2-4 trombones.
Since it is typical for trombone parts to double trumpet parts (an octave lower), you can add trombone parts, if needed, by dropping the appropriate trumpet part down an octave (and transposed back to concert).
The Rhythm section almost always consists of piano, bass and drums (sometimes with guitar). Some of the Big Band Charts have vocals (usually one chorus) and can be easily replaced by a solo (or solos) if you don’t have a vocalist.
A few charts are basically “all” vocal (i.e., beginning to end). Those are noted as “vocals.” Scores are provided with charts that were written in Finale. The earlier “manuscript” charts do not come with scores.
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 (big band transcriptions, big band arrangements, jazz ensemble, film scoring, karaoke tracks, etc.). Please click on ” Custom Work” (above) or mikehenebry.com (where I sell my original compositions).
I will expand or reduce any of the Big Band Charts (transcription or arrangement) here to fit your instrumentation for $30. THE BIG BAND CHARTS: Ah Yes, There’s Good Blues Tonight (’46 Les Brown/Doris Day) 544 Ain’t No Use (’66 Count Basie/ Artur Prysock) (male vocal) 544 Ain’t She Sweet (arrangement) 544 Ain’t That A Kick In The Head (’60 Dean Martin) (male vocal) 532 Ain’t That A Kick In The Head (’60 Dean Martin) (male vocal) 544 All I Ask Of You (Phantom Of The Opera) (arrangement) 544 All The Cats Join In (’44 Benny Goodman) 544 All The Things You Are (’39 Artie Shaw) (female vocal) 544 All The Way (Latin Rock) (female vocal) (arrangement) 544 All The Way (’57 Frank Sinatra) 544 America The Beautiful/God Bless America (arrangement) 532 Any Old Time (’38 Artie Shaw) (female vocal) 532 Auld Lang Syne (’39 Guy Lombardo) 432 Auld Lang Syne (arrangement) 544 Autumn Leaves (Kenton style arrangement) 544 Bach Goes To Town (’38 Benny Goodman) 532 Begin the Beguine (Artie Shaw) 544 Begin the Beguine (Frank Sinatra) 544 Begin the Beguine (Harry James, 1944) 544 Begin the Beguine (Melora Hardin) 544 Best Is Yet To Come, The (Frank Sinatra & Count Basie) 544 Bewitched (TV Theme song) (Steve Lawrence & Don Costa Orch., 1961) 544 Bewitched (TV Theme song) (Steve Lawrence & Don Costa Orch., 1961) (Tenor Band) Beyond The Sea (’60 Bobby Darin) (male vocal) 544 Big John’s Special (’39 Benny Goodman) 532 Birthday Song, The (arrangement) 544 Birthday Song, The (Lucky Seven, expanded) 544 Blue Flame (as recorded by Woody Herman, 1946) 544 Blue Lou (’39 Benny Goodman + Metronome All-Stars) (same as above with added parts) 544 Bugle Call Rag (’36 Benny Goodman) 532 Cab Driver (arrangement) 544 Charleston (as recorded by Bob Wilson) 544 Change Partners (’38 Larry Clinton) 532 Cherokee (’39 Charlie Barnet) 544 Christmas Waltz (as recorded by Frank Sinatra) 533 Coffee Song, The (Frank Sinatra) 544 Concerto For Clarinet (’42 Artie Shaw) 544 Contrasts (Jimmy Dorsey) 544 Crazy He Calls Me (1961 Dakota Staton) 500 (no brass, saxes & rhythm only) Crazy Rhythm (’40 Benny Goodman) 533 Deed I Do (as recorded by Sammy Davis, Jr.) 544 Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead (as recorded by Ella Fitzgerald & Billy May) 544 Dippermouth Blues (’58 Glen Gray) 544 Does Your Heart Beat For Me? (’39 Russ Morgan) (Short Version) 532 Don’t Be That Way (’56 Les Elgart) 544 Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (tango) (arrangement) 544 Downhill Special (Benny Goodman) 544 Embraceable You (’52 Harry James) 544 End, The (with optional string Qtet) (arrangement) 544+4 Fascinating Rhythm (as recorded by Les Elgart) Flip, Flop and Fly (as recorded by Big Joe Turner, expanded) 544 Five O’clock Whistle (as recorded by Erskine Hawkins) 544 For Dancers Only (’37 Jimmie Lunceford) 544 Fly Me To The Moon (Frank Sinatra, Count Basie) 544 From This Moment On (Les Brown) 544 Frosty the Snowman (Louis Dowdeswell Big Band) 544 Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army (From the 1954 movie White Christmas) 544 Glory Days (from the Incredibles) (Louis Dowdeswell Big Band) 544 God Bless America (Kate Smith) 544 Grim Grinning Ghosts (optional bass sax part) 544 Happy Go Lucky Local (’46 Duke Ellington) 532 Harvard Blues (’44 Count Basie/ Jimmy Rushing) (male vocal) 544 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (as recorded by Frank Sinatra) 544 Hawaiian War Chant (’46 Spike Jones) (short version) 111 (Dixie instrumentation) $8 Hawaiian War Chant (’42 Tommy Dorsey) (Live version w/ Buddy Rich & Ziggy Elman) 544 Heartaches (’47 Ted Weems) 432 Headless Horseman, The (’49 Bing Crosby) 544 (choir in saxes) Here We Go Again (’43 Glenn Miller) 4681 He’s a Pirate (Pirates of the Caribbean) (as recorded by Uncle & the Bacon) 544 Hit The Road Jack (arrangement) 544 Honeysuckle Rose (as recorded by Anita O’Day, expanded) 544 I Believe in You (as recorded by Frank Sinatra) 544 I Cried For You (’42 Harry James) (female vocal) 544 I Don’t Want To Walk Without You (’41 Harry James) (female vocal) 532 I Get Ideas (’51 Louis Armstrong w/ Sy Oliver)(4 saxes, trumpet, trombone, rhythm) (male vocal 411 $8 I Have Dreamed (Frank Sinatra) 544 I Know Why (’41 Glenn Miller) (female vocal) 532 I Put a Spell on You (as recorded by Bette Midler From Disney’s Hocus Pocus) 544 I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song) (Jazz Loves Disney) 544 I Want to Be Evil (as recorded by Ertha Kitt, 1954) 544 I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas (as recorded by Gayla Peevey, 1953) (female vocal) 544 I Won’t Dance (Frank Sinatra) 544 I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You (as recorded by Louis Jordan & Louis Armstrong, expanded) I’ll Be Seeing You (’38 Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra) 532 I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again (’53 Benny Goodman/Helen Ward) 544 I’m Gonna Live Till I Die (’55 Frank Sinatra & Ray Anthony) 544 I’m Livin’ In A Great Big Way (’35 Benny Goodman/Buddy Clark) 532 I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (’35 Tommy Dorsey) 532 I’m Old Fashioned (’42 Benny Goodman) (male vocal) 532 Imperial Boogie (based on Imperial March from Star Wars) (As recorded by Uncle & the Bacon) 544 Inka Dinka Doo (ala ’34 Jimmy Durante) 532 In The Mood (’40 Glenn Miller) 544 It Isn’t Fair (’50 Sammy Kaye/Don Cornell) 532 It’s Been A Long Long time (’45 Harry James/ Kitty Kalen) 532 It’s Love I’m After (’36 Tony Martin) It’s Not Unusual (Tom Jones) 544 It Was Wonderful Then (’41 Bing Crosby/John Scott Trotter) 532 I”ve Got You Under My Skin (Frank Sinatra) 544 + optional strings Japanese Sandman, The (Artie Shaw) 544 Jazznocracy (’34 Jimmie Lunceford) 544 Juke For Teresina (from Walk on the Wild Side) (arrangement) 532 Jump, Jive an’ Wail (as recorded by Louis Prima, expanded) 544 Jump in the Line (Harry Belafonte) 544 Jumpin’ At The Woodside (’39/’54 Benny Goodman) 544 Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody (as recorded by Louis Prima, expanded) 544 King Porter Stomp (’35 Benny Goodman) 544 Ko-Ko(’40 Duke Ellington) 533 La Bamba(arrangement) 544 La Vie En Rose (arrangement) 544 La Vie En Rose (vocal, ala Mellissa Manchester)(female vocal) 544 Let’s Dance (’39 Benny Goodman) 544 Little Drummer Boy (Count Basie) 544 Lonely Town (as recorded by Mel Torme)(male vocal) 544 Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me (as recorded by Rosemary Clooney, 1954 )(female vocal) 544 Lovely To Look At (’35 Jan Garber) 532 Love Is Here To Stay (’38 Larry Clinton) 3730 Love Me or Leave Me (Sammy Davis, Jr.) 544 Lullaby in Rhythm (’38 Benny Goodman)544 Mack The Knife (’59 Bobby Darin) 544 Ma ‘Tit Fille (ala Buckwheat Zydeco)544 Main Stem (’42 Duke Ellington)533 Manhattan (’46 Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey) 544 Me And The Moon (’36 Buddy Clark/Joe Reichman) 532 Memories Of You (Arrangement ala Goodman) 544 Merry Xmas Everybody (Robbie Williams) 544 Midnight Sun Will Never Set, The (as recorded by Benny Carter, 1961, with Coleman Hawkins, Phil Woods, Jo Jones, et. al.) 504 (no brass on recording or chart) Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway) 333 Minor Swing (’37 Le Quintette du Hot Club de France, expanded) 644 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (I Love You) (Emma-Louise Birdsall) 544 Mood Indigo (’64 Les & Larry Elgart) 544 Moonglow (Ray McKinley & the Glenn Miller Orch.) 544 Moonlight Becomes You (’62 Charlie Spivak) 532 Moonlight Serenade (’39 Glenn Miller) 544 Moonlight Serenade (trombone feature with optional string Qtet) (arrangement) 544+4 More (Bobby Darin) 543 More (Frank Sinatra) 544 + Optional Strings More Than Yesterday (Spiral Starecase) 333 My Inspiration (’61 Pete Fountain/Bud Dant) 544 My Funny Valentine (with optional string Qtet) (arrangement) 544+4 My Way (Frank Sinatra) 544 Never In A Million Years (’37 Ben Bernie/Buddy Clark) 532 New York, New York (Frank Sinatra) 544 New York, New York (instrumental ala Sinatra) 544 + optional strings Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square, A (’40 Glenn Miller) 532 Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square, A (Bobby Darin) (strings optional) 544 + strings Nightmare (’38 Artie Shaw) 532 Night Train (’52 Buddy Morrow) 532 Nobody Does it Like Me (Shirley Bassey) 544 Ol’ Man River (James Anthony) 333 Old Fashioned Way, The (arrangement) 544 On the Street Where You Live (as recorded by Mel Torme)(male vocal) 544 Out Of Nowhere (arrangement) 532 Over the Rainbow (James Last) 544 + optional synth (strings) Pass That Peace Pipe (’47 Kay Kyser) 544 Petite Fleur (’61 Pete Fountain/Bud Dant) 544 Petite Fleur (SOG Big Band) 544 Pigeon Walk (’37 Jimmie Lunceford) 532 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (as recorded by Sammy Davis, Jr.) 544 Pretend (arrangement) 544 Radio (arrangement) 544 Red Roses For A Blue Lady (Bert Kaempfert) 514 Redskin Rhumba (Charlie Barnet) 544 River Stay ‘Way From My Door (Frank Sinatra) 544 Rockin’ Hot Boogie (composed by Mike Henebry) 544 Rockin’ the Blues (as recorded by Count Basie, 1940) 544 Roll ‘Em (’37 Benny Goodman) 544 Roll ‘Em (’39 Benny Goodman, “live” Camel Caravan) 4681 Sally’s Song & Jack & Sally’s Song (From the Nightmare Before Christmas) (arrangement) 544 Sam’s Song (as recorded by Bing & Gary Crosby) (expanded) 544 Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long (as recorded by Barbara Streisand, 1966) 544 Santa Claus is Back in Town (as recorded by Kurt Russell) 544 Sara Lee (as recorded by Liza Minelli) 544 Save My Soul (as recorded by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) (expanded) 544 Sea Cruise (50’s rock song) (arrangement) 544 Second Star to the Right (as recorded by Doris Day) Sentimental Journey (’45 Les Brown/Doris Day) 532 Sheik of Araby (Billy May) 544 Sing Me A Swing Song (’36 Benny Goodman/Helen Ward) 532 Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga (’40 Jimmy Dorsey/Helen O’Connell) 532 Sixteen Tons (as recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford) (expanded) 544 Skylark (’42 Glenn Miller) 544 Snibor (based on Johnny Hodges recording) 544 Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise (as recorded by Bobby Darin) 544 Soliloquy (From Carousel) (as recorded by Frank Sinatra) 544 Someday (You’ll Want Me to Want You) (as recorded by Ray Charles) 544 Some Enchanted Evening (arrangement) 544 So Rare (’57 Jimmy Dorsey) 532 Stardust (’40 Artie Shaw) 544 Stardust (’36 Benny Goodman) 533 Stardust (’36 Benny Goodman) 544 Star Spangled Banner (instrumental) (arrangement) 544 Star Spangled Banner (vocal) (arrangement) 544 Stealin’ Apples (’39 Benny Goodman) 544 Stompin’ Room Only (as recorded by Charlie Spivak, 1948) 544 St. Louis Blues (’38 Benny Goodman) 544 St. Louis Blues (’39 Artie Shaw ) 544 Street of Dreams (Frank Sinatra with Count Basie) 544 String of Pearls, A (Goodman) 544 Swanee (’46 Al Jolson) 544 Swingin’ Down the Lane (’57 Les Brown) 544 Swingtime In The Rockies (’38 Benny Goodman) 532 Sympathique (based on Pink Martini version) 544 Tain’t What Cha Do (’39 Jimmie Lunceford) 544 Tender Trap, The (Frank Sinatra) 544 That Old Black Magic (’58 Louis Prima, expanded) 544 That’s What God Looks Like to Me (Frank Sinatra) 544 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (as recorded by Andy Williams) 544 There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York (as recorded by Sammy Davis, Jr.) 333 There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York (as recorded by Sammy Davis, Jr.) 333 + Strings There’s a Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder (Bobby Darin) 544 There’s No Tomorrow (ala ’49 Tony Martin) 532 This Guy’s In Love With You (Herb Alpert) 333 This is My Life (Shirley Bassey) for brass band (vocal, 4 trumpets, Flugelhorn, Alto Horn, 4 French Horns, 2 Euphoniums, 4 trombones, Eb tuba, rhythm sect.) Time After Time (’44Frank Sinatra) Too Close For Comfort (as recorded by Mel Torme) Too Darn Hot (as recorded by Mel Torme)(male vocal) 544 Train Kept A-Rollin’ (as recorded by Tiny Bradshaw, 1951, expanded) 544 Tuxedo Junction (’40 Erskine Hawkins “live”) 544 Tuxedo Junction (’40 Glenn Miller) 544 Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer (’51 Ella Fitzgerald) 544 Undecided (as recorded by Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald, 1939, expanded) 544 Unforgettable (Ray Anthony) 544 Walk Hand in Hand (as recorded by Andy Williams, 1956) 544 Walk-on Music (9 short introductions) (arrangement) 543 We’ll Meet Again (Vera Lynn) 544 Well Did You Evah (Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra) 544 What A Wonderful World (arrangement) 544 What I Did For Love (as recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck) 333 Whatever Lola Wants (Sarah Vaughan) 544 When I’m Feelin’ Kinda Blue (Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis) 544 When My Baby Smiles At Me (’61 Pete Fountain/Bud Dant) 544 When The Saints Go Marching In (arrangement) 544 White Christmas (as recorded by Bing Crosby) 544 White Christmas (as recorded by Bing Crosby) 544 with Strings White Sport Coat, A (arrangement) 544 Where Are You? (Arthur Prysock/Count Basie) 544 Who Can I Turn To (Sammy Davis, Jr.) 544 Who Can I Turn To (Sammy Davis, Jr.) 544 Winter Weather (as recorded by Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee, 1941) 544 Winter Wonderland/Let it Snow Duet (as recorded by Bette Midler & Johnny Mathis) 544 Wonderland By Night (’61 Bert Kaempfert) 514 Woodchoppers’ Ball (’39 Woody Herman) 532 World We Knew, The (arrangement) 544 Yoshi’s Island Athletic Theme (as recorded by the 8-bit Big Band) 544 You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (’45 Benny Goodman) 532 You Came A Long Way Fr St. Louis (‘Stan Kenton/June Christy) 544 Younger Than Springtime (arrangement) 544 Be sure to check out the “Orchestra & Strings ” link above. There are some Big Band Sheet Music charts there that are Big Band + strings charts (and most of the time the strings are optional).
