More new arrivals:

— Hank Mobley’s album “The Flip” is now complete with Feelin’ Folksy and Snappin’ Out, also available in sextet arrangements by Don Sickler

— A new Minus You melody version of Rodgers Grant’s Reconciliation - you can play along with a brass section accompaniment!

— Ray Bryant’s Samba Elegante, also available with a large ensemble Minus You track

— Cecilia Coleman’s Along The Way, a catchy song alternating 12/8 Latin and swing

— Bill Pierce’s Sudan Blue, a fun minor-key swinger originally written for Art Blakey; two lead sheets available reflecting Bill’s recordings as a leader and with Ralph Peterson

— newly added composer, tenor saxophonist Shelley Carrol: Sweet Audrey and Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?, from Curtis Lundy’s album “Against All Odds” also featuring Bobby Watson

In November we celebrated Gigi Gryce’s centennial! Now available are scores and parts for three of Gigi’s octet arrangements from the 1957 Dizzy Gillespie album “The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All.” Smoke Signal is a newly added song from this album; the others are A Night At Tony’s and Shabozz, which are very different from Gigi’s original quintet recordings of these songs with trumpeter Art Farmer. If you have an octet (trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, baritone sax, piano, bass, drums) these arrangements will be an exciting addition to your repertoire. They sound great and are a masterclass in the hard-bop style.

August 30, 2025, is Kenny Dorham's 101st birthday! During Kenny's centennial year we've added yet more of his compositions, or new editions, to jazzleadsheets.com. Lots of great new music to check out, from the '40s through the '60s! Starred (*) songs indicate titles Kenny never got the chance to record himself. In alphabetical order:
As I Live And Breathe* (instrumental and vocal) - Kenny wrote the lyric too!
Blue Bossa - Kenny's second recording
Blue Friday - his second recording in a new key
Blue Lament* - Don Sickler's version, Kenny's was unissued by Blue Note
Blue Spring - check out his bass line
Blue Interlude* - written for the delight of drummer Art Taylor!
Buffalo - "southwestern funk," according to Ira Gitler's liner notes
Butch's Blues - for bassist Butch Warren
El Matador - possibly Kenny's only 5/4 composition
The Fox - excitement for everyone in the band
High Seas* - Kenny wrote this for drummer Art Taylor's Blue Note session
Hill's Edge - hear how Kenny disguises the form
Jazz-Classic - a cute classically inspired duet; two horns, bass, drums
K.D.'s Blues - a "cool" blues
N.Y. Theme - from Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia
Newport News* - a Chico Hamilton recording, plus a duet
No End* - Curtis Fuller & Jimmy Heath brought this gem to Don Sickler, never recorded by Kenny
Noose Bloos - a snappy riff blues
Passion Spring - recorded as a septet, passionate lyricism, subtle details
Poetic Spring - masterful interplay between accompaniment & melody
Riffin' - riffs again, a blues
Sky Blue - from a Swedish TV show - you can see Kenny!
Spring Cannon - Kenny wrote this for Cannonball Adderley, on their only recording together
Strictly Confidential* co-written with Bud Powell (and a vocal version, This Is Strictly Confidential)
Sunrise In Mexico - Kenny's reflections of his childhood home
Sunset - a K.D. modal song
Trompeta Toccata - dramatic trumpet playing!
Venita's Dance - quintet and sextet
Whistle Stop - definitely hear the train leaving the station! Lots of fun.
A Waltz - from Kenny's Jazz Contemporary album

In addition we have new transcribed solos! Kenny's solos are now available for Horn Salute and Pedro's Time; Back Road and Escapade now have transcriptions of both Kenny and Joe Henderson, and finally we have Kenny's and Hank Mobley's solos from the original Jazz Messengers recording of N.Y. Theme.

Other new additions by Kenny Dorham, all with their recorded arrangements, perfect for your first fall gig:
Jazz-Classic from his 1957 album “2 Horns, 2 Rhythm” (2 front line, no piano)
Blue Spring, Poetic Spring, and Passion Spring from his 1959 album “Blue Spring” (septet - 4 horns and rhythm section)
Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah recorded in 1960 for the compilation “The Jazz Life” (5 front line, no piano)
Blue Lament, first recorded by Don Sickler in 1983 on “The Music Of Kenny Dorham” (quintet - 2 horns and rhythm section)

Earlier this month, we celebrated the 29th birthday of bassist Daryl Johns. We’ve featured Daryl on a number of exclusive jazzleadsheets.com projects while he was still in his teens, which showcase his virtuosic playing even at a very young age. This month, we have added more songs from our “Tribute To Paul Chambers” project featuring Daryl, 13 years old at the time, playing overdubbed multiple bass arrangements by Don Sickler. Besides the Paul Chambers compositions Beauteous, The Hand Of Love, Dear Ann, and Tale Of The Fingers, we are also now featuring Daryl as a composer with his own Blues For P.C. All of these are available as full scores and parts for multiple basses (4 basses for most of them except Dear Ann and Tale Of The Fingers which are for 5 basses).

Our “Don & Daryl” project adds Don Sickler overdubbed on trumpet or flugelhorn over the same multiple bass tracks, and presents them in Minus You format for any melody instrument. Also check out our videos of Don performing these arrangements of Dear Ann and Tale Of The Fingers in 2012, with a quartet of bassists who were studying at Columbia University at the time. This was part of a concert celebrating Don’s 25th anniversary of teaching at Columbia.

One more recently added song we recorded with Daryl is O.P. Meets L.T. This Lucky Thompson/Oscar Pettiford collaboration completes not only our collection of Lucky’s songs from his two “Featuring Oscar Pettiford” vol. 1 and vol. 2 albums, but also our own “Don Sickler Quartet Featuring Daryl Johns” project. The latter version, also recorded when Daryl was 13, also has Minus You tracks for all instruments. Parts are available for both Lucky’s trio arrangement (tenor sax, guitar, bass) and our quartet arrangement (trumpet, piano, bass, drums).

Roll On

Sims A-Plenty

Carvin' The Rock

One Second, Please

In addition to El Matador, we're also releasing four songs from Kenny's iconic 1961 Blue Note album "Whistle Stop;" all seven of this album's songs are now up on jazzleadsheets.com. The new ones are Buffalo, Sunset, Whistle Stop and Sunrise In Mexico. The recorded quintet arrangements are available for all four.

In all, we had 23 different pianists involved, each playing one of Herbie's unrecorded songs, except for pianist Frank Kimbrough, who got to play two of the new songs. For more history about our project, check out our Herbie Nichols Centennial Project page and our Herbie Nichols Piano Summit page.

The "Fourth Six" tracks, released to complete the project by Herbie's birthday (January 3rd), feature established master pianists, several of whom are jazzleadsheets.com composers including living legend Bertha Hope.

As with our previous releases in this project, a teaser video is available with excerpts of these six songs from our recording sessions. Here are more:

Here are all 24 titles, in four groups:
"The First 6"
"The Second Six"
"The Third Six"
"The Fourth Six"

We've made a teaser video to whet your appetite for this release: all of the pianists' interpretations are inspired improvisations on the basic leadsheets.