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We've had Johnny Griffin's title track Grab This! on jazzleadsheets for awhile. Today, on the anniversary of that recording we're adding Griff's Cherry Float from the same album. What a pleasure to hear Griffin's big tone! June 28 is also the recording anniversary of Ruby Braff's Here's Freddie and Bill Mobley's recording of James Williams' Mulgrew's Motif with James on...

Today (June 27, 2023) is Elmo Hope's 100th Birthday, Happy Birthday Elmo! June 18 was the 70th anniversary of Elmo's first trio recording as a leader, which also has special significance in 2023, because the other two members of Elmo's trio also have their 100th birthdays this year, legendary drummer Philly Joe Jones and legendary bassist Percy Heath.Now all six...

Piano legend Cedar Walton is newly represented on jazzleadsheets.com with two songs from the repertoire of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. The uptempo Latin Mosaic is one of Cedar's compositions that have become standards. He recorded it with four very different instrumentations and arrangements. First was a quintet version on Clifford Jordan's 1961 album "Starting Time," also featuring Kenny Dorham. The...

June 7, 2023, is a special day for us at jazzleadsheets.com. It is the launch of Conn Selmer's first CONNECTION SESSIONS video, featuring Hank Mobley's Up, Over And Out. It's a fun video we hope you will all check out. The opening view is of NYC and the George Washington Bridge, then the camera pans to the roof of the...

We were already working on some songs by James Williams when we realized it's his birthday today (March 8) - as good a day as any to add them to jazzleadsheets.com. Four of James' songs are newly available. All of them are lyrical, concise, and memorable in his distinctive style; each of these songs has a form only 16 measures...

Our first new arrivals in 2023 cover a variety of styles and tempos. First up is Nino's Scene, a sunny calypso song by Sergio Mihanovich recorded by Art Farmer. Curiously, Art's version is a studio recording that was marketed as a live album, with overdubbed applause. We have one newly added song each by pianists James Williams and Donald Brown...

Trumpeter Jim Rotondi and tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander are both great musicians and accomplished composers in their own right, but they have also collaborated to write several fun, challenging and groovy songs they've recorded together. We've had Biru Kirusai up on jazzleadsheets.com for a while; five more co-composed songs of Jim's and Eric's are now available. The earliest of these...

Our two latest additions to the Piano Corner are very different. First is Geoffrey Keezer’s Premonition, a subtly ominous medium-slow song that packs a lot of rhythmic and harmonic variety into a short form. Originally recorded on Roy Hargrove’s debut album as a leader, our lead sheets reflect this first version. James Spaulding recorded this song in a different key...

Hi, jazzleadsheets.com customers. You may have recently received an email from orders@jazzleadsheets.com that has information from your orders from the last few years. The part of the website that sends emails to customers has apparently not been working correctly for a few years. The tech guy fixed it yesterday. Now it's sending out all the backlogged notifications. No need for...

We're excited to bring the music of Bennie Harris (affectionately known as "Little" Bennie Harris) to the jazzleadsheets.com catalog. Bennie was a trumpeter and composer associated with the original bebop scene in the '40s. Several of his compositions have become standards, but they're not always properly credited. Wahoo, one of two Harris songs now on jazzleadsheets.com, has often hidden in...