Studio Orchestra Arrangement. Full Score, English Vocal, Portugese Vocal, Woodwind 1: Piccolo/Bass Flute (Alto Flute Alt Part)/C Flute, Woodwind 2: Piccolo/Bass Flute (Alto Flute Alt Part)/C Flute/Alt...
Recorded by Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Jazz Big Band Arrangement This is quite possibly the best arrangement of this standard ever conceived. Written in 1976 and featured on the Boss Brass album...
Originally written and arranged for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1956, this version of Benny Golson's tribute to the late Clifford Brown, 'I Remember Clifford,' has become a favorite ballad...
This arrangement, first known as Elf, was originally written sometime in 1963. It was first recorded in New York on July 18, 1963. The title had been changed to Isfahan sometime before the Duke Elling...
This arrangement was written by Billy Strayhorn in 1963 and was first performed in Sweden on March 9, 1964. While on tour in Europe during that year Ellington introduced several pieces as Impressions...
Despite the overall optimistic nature of the song, 'There's a Boat Dats Leavin' Soon For New York' ultimately serves the role of setting up the tragic ending of George and Ira Gershwin's 'Porgy and Be...
Blues for Pablo was originally written for Hal McKusick for inclusion on his Jazz Workshop LP recorded in 1956 for RCA Victor Records (this album also included Jambangle, which was later re-orchestrat...
In early 1967 Strayhorn, who was suffering from esophagael cancer and the effects of radiation treatment, set out to compose a multi-movement work in which one of sections was to be titled Blue Cloud....
RECORDED BY THE MILES DAVIS/GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF This is the brilliant ballad treatment of the Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin standard by Gil Evans as recorde...
In 1959 Mercer Ellington assembled his dad's working ensemble in a New York studio to record an album for Coral Records that is known as Colors in Rhythm. The idea was to take a few of Mercer's origin...