Edition: Jazz Big Band Arrangement with Vocal

Description: Swing - Medium

Publisher: Lush Life Music

Taken from the album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook" this chart is a punchy up-tempo swinger, and an out-and-out vocal feature, with no solo space in the band backings, aside from four little accented piano answerbacks in the closing of the chart, and some solo bass behind the vocal after the modulation. The band's backing phrases require precision and tightness, and we have written the required articulations on all of the parts, so your players will be in no doubt as to what is required. Midler's original had some String lines. We have incorporated the flavor of these lines into the sax section, but written them as "optional subtones". The vocal part is notated "as-sung" by Ms. Midler, and the vocal keys are C, modulating to Db. There are no sax doubles. Style: Swing @ 155 b.p.m.

Full Score
Vocal
2 Alto Saxophones
2 Tenor Saxophones
Baritone Saxophone
4 Trumpets
4 Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Vocal key: C/Db
Vocal: G3-A4 (9 steps as sung)
Trumpets 1-4: Eb6, C6, Bb5, Eb5
Trombones 1-4: Bb4, F#4, F4, D4