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Big Band Arrangements by Ted Nash
All charts $85 each unless otherwise noted. Delivered in PDF format. All arrangements are for three bones unless otherwise noted.
Default Instrumentation:
• 5 reeds
• 4 trumpets
• 3 bones
• Piano, bass and drums
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Presidential Suite – Full Suite $500 (or $85 each) Grammy Winner! Best Large Jazz Ensemble
Overture
Ask Not
(JFK)
Spoken at Midnight
(Nehru) – Grammy Winner, best instrumental composition!
The Four Freedoms
(FDR)
Tear Down This Wall
(Reagan)
This Deliverance
(Churchill)
Water in Cupped Hands
(Suu Kyi)
The American Promise
(LBJ)
The Time for the Healing of the Wounds
(Mandela)
Chakra – Full Suite $450 (or $85 each)
(w/ Bass Bone)
Earth
Water
Fire
Air
Ether
Light
Cosmos
Portrait in Seven Shades – Suite $450 (or $85 each). 2 Grammy nominations!
Monet
Dali
Matisse
Picasso
Van Gogh (w/ vocal)
Chagall
Pollock
Bill Evans – Set $400 (or $85 each)
Five (3 or 4 bones)
Peri’s Scope
Interplay (w/ guitar)
Time Remembered
Re: Person I Knew
Blue in Green
Jazz Compositions
Tones For Joan’s Bones (Corea) (3 or 4 bones)
Windows (Corea)
Hank’s Symphony (Hank Mobley)
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum (Wayne Shorter)
Diana (Wayne Shorter) (3 or 4 bones)
Inner Urge (Joe Henderson) (3 or 4 bones)
Dolphin Dance (Herbie Hancock)
Una Muy Bonita (Ornette Coleman)
What Could I Ask For? (Ornette Coleman)
Sleep Talk (Ornette Coleman)
Kaleidoscope (Ornette Coleman)
Skippy (Monk)
Humph (Monk)
Think of One (Monk)
Bright Mississippi (Monk)
Jackie-ing (Monk)
The Strawberry (Myra Melford)
Strange Meadowlark (Dave Brubeck)
Lost Waltz (Dave Brubeck)
Seven Steps to Heaven (V Feldman)
Synthetics (Kurt Rosenwinkel) – (w/ guitar)
Kaleidoscope (Ahmad Jamal)
Black Bottom Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton)
Standards
My Favorite Things
Misty
All the Things you are (four bones)
Blues in the Night (four bones)
Our Love is Here to Stay (four bones) – as recorded by Mel Lewis
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
It Ain’t Necessarily So (Vocal)
Pennies from Heaven (Vocal)
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Send in the Clowns
Who’s That Woman?
This Time the Dream’s On Me
Latin
Ceora (Lee Morgan) (3 or 4 bones)
A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy G) As a tango (w/ 2 violins and bandoneon)
Flores Negras (traditional tango)
La Espada de la Noche (Ted Nash)
Contigo Aprendi (Armando Manzanero Canche)
Coisa #8 (Moacir Santos)
Blueishmen (Moacir Santos)
Tico Tico
Nursery Rhymes
Old McDonald
Muffin Man
Vocal
Somewhere (Bernstein/Sondheim)
Pirate Jenny (Kurt Weil)
Kanonen Song (Kurt Weil)
What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (LeGrand)
Another Hundred People (Sondheim)
All the Things You Are
Holiday
Sleigh Ride – w/ female vocal and guitar
Christmas Song – w/ female vocal
We Three Kings of Orient Are
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm – w/ female vocal and opt. guitar
Rise Up Shepherd and Follow (w/ opt. guitar)
My Favorite Things (w/ voc and opt. guitar)
Pop
Eleanor Rigby (Beatles) – instrumental
Scarborough Fair (Vocal)
Critical Mass/Wind on the Water (Crosby, Stills and Nash) – vocal
Crazy Love (Paul Simon) – vocal
Classical
Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle (Moussorgsy)
Other Nash Originals
Sisters
Nonet
Grand Central (Coltrane) – 3 saxes (a,t,b), 3 brass (2tpt, 1 bone), 3 rhythm – $50
Sax Quartet w/ Rhythm Section – $40 each
Syeeda’s Flute (Coltrane)
Cousin Mary (Coltrane)
Spiral (Coltrane)
