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All 24 songs in our Herbie Nichols Centennial Project are now available. We're finally able to bring you the music (lead sheets and artist performance audio) for all of these previously unrecorded Herbie Nichols compositions that became our project. We've introduced his new songs to you in four groupings (six compositions in each group) and also accompanied the release of...

Continuing our Herbie Nichols Centennial Project, six more previously unheard Nichols compositions are now available on jazzleadsheets.com. As with the other songs in this project, solo piano performances were recorded at Van Gelder Studio during Herbie Nichols' centennial year. The 23 pianists featured in this project represent players at every decade of their careers, from teens up to 80s. Several...

We're excited to continue making new songs available from our Herbie Nichols Centennial Project: 24 previously unrecorded Nichols compositions, in solo piano performances from 23 different pianists recorded at Van Gelder Studio (on the piano Herbie played) during his centennial year. Six more of these songs are now released for the first time. Nichols wrote the first major article about...

Today - November 8th, 2024 - is the 88th birthday of one of our living legend composers, Bertha Hope. To celebrate we are adding five more of her unique compositions to jazzleadsheets.com, covering a wide range of moods and harmonic structures: Bai Tai Blues Dotti-Dotti Hokkaido Spring This Could Be Blues You Know Who! Besides lead sheets for these songs...

September 21 is the anniversary of a very important recording session in 1956. "Whims Of Chambers" was Paul Chambers' debut as a leader on the Blue Note label; it features an all-star lineup with Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Horace Silver, and Philly Joe Jones. Three of Paul's songs were recorded: Dear Ann, Tale Of The Fingers, and Whims...

Don Sickler: The school year is upon us again, a perfect time to celebrate the anniversary of the first recording of then 17- year-old pianist and composer, Geoffrey Keezer. For me, this album still stands as a great album by an already mature pianist/composer. I've been blessed to know Geoffrey since his arrival in NYC when he was introduced to...

To kick off the Kenny Dorham Centennial Year, on his birthday (August 30, 2024) jazzleadsheets.com filled our NEW ARRIVALS listing on our Home page with 10 new editions of Kenny's compositions. D.C. Special, Dorham's Epitaph/Extension, Fair Weather (instrumental), Fair Weather (vocal), Lotus Flower, Mexico City, No End, There's No End, None Shall Wander and Tonica are now available. We'll be...

Don Sickler: In a little over a week, on August 30 (Kenny Dorham's 100th birthday), we start celebrating the Kenny Dorham Centennial year. Jazzleadsheets.com is determined to continue enriching our catalog of Kenny Dorham's music throughout the year. K.D. (as Dorham was affectionately known) is a vitally important trumpet player and composer: all jazz musicians should experience playing his very...

Here are links to some NYC events celebrating Kenny Dorham at Jazz at Lincoln Center AUGUST 29, 2024 7:00PM VARIS LEICHTMAN STUDIO LISTENING PARTY: KENNY DORHAM CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION https://ticketing.jazz.org/17458/ August 30, 31 and September 1: performances https://ticketing.jazz.org/17109/

For the recording anniversary of Hank Mobley's 1965 album "Dippin'" we added The Vamp and The Dip. For Hank's birthday (July 7th), we're releasing Ballin' from the same album including a transcription of his solo. All of Hank Mobley's compositions from "Dippin'" are now available and they're all fun to play. You can continue to celebrate Hank by checking out...