May 2025

Please click here to view our April Jazz Publishing Newsletter, which was sent on Tuesday, April 22, focusing on our huge new selection of PDF charts from Alfred, Hal Leonard, Kendor, and Doug Beach Music.

MAY NOTES: (May 19th Update): We have another exciting new Jazz Lines Publications release today. Born of an unlikely collaboration between the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and famed R&B singer Ruth Brown, Jones's arrangement of Bye, Bye Blackbird was also performed over the years by Carmen McRae and Dee Dee Bridgewater. While the vocals are the star attraction for the majority of the performance, Jones still manages to infuse the accompaniment with his trademark wit and creativity. This publication was prepared from the original parts, this is not a transcription.

We are also extremely pleased to announce our first new Jazz Lines Publications Supersax release in quite a while: Med Flory's arrangement of Neal Hefti's Repetition. Med's adaptation is based on a recording from 1947 that saw Charlie Parker accompanied by a studio orchestra. This arrangement was originally recorded on Supersax's 1973 debut album Supersax Plays Bird. Only 3 parts (both tenors and baritone sax) from the 1973 session have been retained over the years. As a result, the two alto sax parts, all brass parts, and all rhythm section parts have been transcribed from the original recording.

Announcing the arrival of Alfred Music's 2025 new issues! The first two are by two of today's best, Alan Baylock and Gordon Goodwin. Alan's Proove Your Groove is a medium difficult funky chart with a groove that is deep and full of harmonic colors start to finish. This is festival material. Gordon's Wise Up is a terrific medium/medium difficult swing-shuffle groove around 150 BPM. This chart is simply fun and hip. Solo space is provided for alto, tenor, bari, trumpet, and trombone with sample solos provided for E-flat, B-flat, trombone, and C instruments. Please see below for both of these and more of this year's new ones (they will all be listed ASAP). Please click here to see them all.

Please check out April New Releases as well for new historic Jazz Lines Publications of ours from Frank Sinatra, Helen O'Connell, and Dave Pell, as well as two new ones from our friend Rick Hirsch. We also have the 2025 new issues from Baker's Jazz & More, as well as more paper and PDF options from Hal Leonard, including music from Michele Fernández, Mark Taylor, Rick Stitzel, and more. Please click here to see all that was new in April.

RECENT HIGHLIGHT: We are extremely pleased to announce the long-awaited completion of our projects to make almost 2500 PDF downloadable arrangements from Hal Leonard, Alfred Publishing, Kendor Music, and Doug Beach Music available to you!

Please click here for all Hal Leonard PDF downloadable arrangements.

Please click here for all Alfred Publishing PDF downloadable arrangements.

Please click here for all Kendor Music and Doug Beach Music PDF downloadable arrangements.

CHRISTINE JENSEN SEVEN ARRANGEMENT SET

Arranged by Christine Jensen

Seven Jazz Big Band Arrangements

Les Éditions Whitewater Music Publications

CJ-1000

$410.00

The Global Source for Jazz

May 2025