I Cried For You
Big Band - Sheet Music

Big band with female vocal (2 Alto Saxophones, 2 Tenor Saxophones, Baritone Saxophone, 4 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums) - Medium

SKU: JL.JLP-9020

By Helen O'Connell. Edited by Rob Duboff and Jeffrey Sultanof. Arranged by Marion Evans. Jazz Vocal. Swing. Full score and set of parts. Published by Jazz Lines Publications (JL.JLP-9020).

Here is Helen O'Connell's original arrangement of 'I Cried for You' from her 1962 'Here's Helen' album. This is not a transcription, the original Marion Evans manuscript has been used. This is just a great chart beginning with a bouncy swing figure in the reeds and drums on brushes. The trumpets come in with a nice syncopated melody behind the vocals with Harmon mutes on. In the middle there is a brass soli followed by a reed soli that leads to an 8-bar trombone solo (trombone 2). The solo has not been written out, but guide notes (per the original manuscript) and chord changes have been supplied. Your piano player gets to play a little bit by supplying fills behind the vocals per the original recording. The ranges for the trumpets are modest; trumpet 1 gets to high D towards the end of arrangement and trombone 1 goes to high B flat. There are no doubles. The vocal key is B flat modulating to B for the last 12 bars. Vocal Key: B flat modulating to B.