C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.499597 By Duke Ellington. By Albany Bigard, Duke Ellington, and Irving Mills. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #112893. Published by John Fries (A0.499597). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  The tune was composed for a radio broadcast in October 1930 and was originally titled Dreamy Blues. It was the first tune I ever wrote specially for microphone transmission, Ellington recalled. The next day wads of mail came in raving about the new tune, so Irving Mills put a lyric to it. Renamed Mood Indigo, it became a jazz standard..

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.499835 Composed by Bob Russell and Duke Ellington. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #113107. Published by John Fries (A0.499835). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer. Don't Get Around Much Anymore is a jazz standard written by composer Duke Ellington. The song was originally entitled Never No Lament and was first recorded by Duke Ellington and his orchestra on May 4, 1940. Don't Get Around Much Anymore quickly became a hit after Bob Russell wrote its lyrics in 1942. Two different recordings of Don't Get Around Much Anymore, one by The Ink Spots and the 1940 instrumental by Ellington's own band, reached No. 1 on the R&B chart in the US in 1943. Both were top-ten pop records, along with a version by Glen Gray. The Duke Ellington version reached No. 8 on the pop chart.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.501369 Composed by Bob Russell and Duke Ellington. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Blues,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 2 pages. John Fries #114265. Published by John Fries (A0.501369). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.   Don't Get Around Much Anymore is a jazz standard written by composer Duke Ellington. The song was originally entitled Never No Lament and was first recorded by Duke Ellington and his orchestra on May 4, 1940. Don't Get Around Much Anymore quickly became a hit after Bob Russell wrote its lyrics in 1942. Two different recordings of Don't Get Around Much Anymore, one by The Ink Spots and the 1940 instrumental by Ellington's own band, reached No. 1 on the R&B chart in the US in 1943. Both were top-ten pop records, along with a version by Glen Gray. The Duke Ellington version reached No. 8 on the pop chart. This arrangement includes the lyrics.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.499563 Composed by Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Broadway,Jazz,Musical/Show,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #112868. Published by John Fries (A0.499563). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941. It was introduced in the musical revue Jump for Joy by Ivie Anderson.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.500000 Composed by Duke Ellington and Milt Gabler. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #113230. Published by John Fries (A0.500000). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  In a Mellow Tone, also known as In a Mellotone, is a 1939 jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Milt Gabler. The song was based on the 1917 standard Rose Room by Art Hickman and Harry Williams, which Ellington himself had recorded in 1932. Howard Stern used a recording of this song (from Ellington's Blues in Orbit album) as the opening theme to The Howard Stern Show from 1987 to 1994.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.500002 Composed by Duke Jordan. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #113232. Published by John Fries (A0.500002). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  Jordu is a jazz standard written by Irving Duke Jordan in 1953. This song was first made popular by Clifford Brown and Max Roach, but many other jazz musicians have performed or recorded renditions of it, including Stan Getz, Chet Baker, and Charlie Byrd.

C Instrument - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.499501 By Count Basie. By E.Y. Yip Harburg and Vernon Duke. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Film/TV,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #112847. Published by John Fries (A0.499501). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  April in Paris is a popular song composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by Yip Harburg in 1932 for the Broadway musical Walk a Little Faster. Count Basie's 1955 recording on the album of the same name is the most famous, and that particular performance was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1171521 Composed by Duke Ellington and Lee Gaines. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #771842. Published by John Fries (A0.1171521). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me) is a 1941 popular song composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Lee Gaines. The song has been recorded numerous times by a number of artists in the years since, having become a jazz standard.  Hit recordings have been by Paul Weston & His Orchestra (vocal by Matt Dennis) (reached No. 21 in the Billboard charts in 1947) and by The Four Aces (No. 20 in 1952).

C Instrument - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1281975 By Billy Eckstine. By Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, and Juan Tizol. Arranged by Rob Ames. Jazz. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 3 pages. Rob Ames #873329. Published by Rob Ames (A0.1281975). Color-coded Lead Sheets for Jazz Combo. Separate lead sheets for Concert instruments and Bb instruments included with purchase. Color allows quick understanding of the sections and form of the tune, the rhythmic hits, and the counter-melodies. Special care has been taken to clearly indicate intros, sections, solos, and codas/outros. These form-based markings are in GREEN.  Special care has also been taken to notate the rhythmic hits. Hits are often partially or completely missing from standard fake book versions of the tune. Hits are notated above the staff, in RED. Finally, any counter-melodies or harmonies appear in reduced size, in BLUE.Melodies often written in straight rhythm in standard fake books have been rewritten in a swing style, or “As Played By� some of the all-time jazz greats. Some of the tunes have been transposed from their standard fake book keys to an easier, better-sounding key for Bb saxophone.Slurs have been added to all the Bb parts for smooth and consistent jazz articulation on the Bb saxophone. A duplicate Bb part, without the slurs, is also included (marked with an asterisk for Bb* Instruments), for Bb players who would prefer to customize their own articulation.All tunes have been vetted for playability and accuracy.The arranger, Rob Ames, is a soprano saxophone player from New Hampshire and the Boston, MA area. His album of original tunes, “Sounds From the Boardwalk�, is widely available.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1206031 By Otis Redding. By Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell, and Reg Connelly. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Pop,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #804224. Published by John Fries (A0.1206031). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns. Thanks, John.  A popular version in an entirely new form was recorded by soul artist Otis Redding in 1966. Redding was backed on his version by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and Stax staff producer Isaac Hayes worked on the arrangement. Redding's recording features a slow, soulful opening that eventually builds into a frenetic R&B conclusion, incorporating elements from the Duke Ellington–Lee Gaines song Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me) as well as the words sock it to me..

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.499517 By Jo Stafford. By Vernon Duke. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #112849. Published by John Fries (A0.499517). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  Jazz versions have been performed by Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Stan Kenton, Sarah Vaughan, Sheila Jordan, Bill Evans, Tal Farlow, Ahmad Jamal, Salvador Sobral, Al Haig and Diana Krall, The song was also recorded by Jo Stafford, and by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald as a duet.