charts

John Beasley’s Music Charts
Available for purchase - use contact sheet (link to Contact page)


Big Band

  • Fête de la Tête (commissioned by Carnegie Hall NYO – high school big band)

  • Freddie’s Blues (high school/easy college level)

  • Nothing Left to Say (from Three Brave Souls album)

  • Song for Dub

  • Steve-O

Symphonic Jazz

  • Simplexity (winner of Spheres of Influence international composition JAM LAB University, Austria)

  • Can’t, Buts and If’s (commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Big Band Arrangements of Iconic Masters and others

Thelonious Monk (MONK’estra for big band - advanced level)

Duke Ellington

Charlie Parker Big Band and Strings 

Chick Corea: Return to Forever

Herbie Hancock: Secrets

Weather Report

Wayne Shorter

Joey DeFrancesco (“In the Key of the Universe” album –originals)

  • Awake and Blissed

  • In the Key of the Universe 

  • Inner Being

  • Sole Perspective

  • Swung Wide Open

  • Vibrations and Blue

Somi (African influenced – originals by Somi)

Film Music: Big band and Strings 

Steven Soderberg “Let them all Talk” 

Film Composer: Thomas Newman | Orchestrator/Arranger/Conductor John Beasley

Chamber Orchestra:

Portuguese Fado songs in jazz arrangements for vocalist Maria Mendes

(strings, 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, rhythm section) 

Small Ensembles: from John Beasley’s solo albums:
Cauldron, A Change of Heart, Nuances, Surfacing, Letter to Herbie, 3 Brave Souls, Positootly, El Trio: Live in Italy, Butterfly Effect

Songs arranged by John Beasley

  • Boogie Down - Al Jarreau

  • I Remember Clifford - Benny Golson

  • Don’t Explain - Billie Holiday  (vocal or instrumental feature)

  • Since I Fell for You - Buddy Johnson (vocal or instrumental feature)

  • Montmartre - Dexter Gordon

  • Some Day - George Duke  (commissioned by Carnegie Hall NYO – high school big band)

  • Peace - Horace Silver  (vocal or instrumental feature)

  • Velas - Ivan Lins

  • Lament - J J Johnson

  • Make Someone Happy - Jimmy Durante (vocal or instrumental feature; commissioned by Carnegie Hall NYO – high school big band)

  • Stitched Up - John Mayer

  • Uno Mas - Kenny Dorham

  • Cake Walk - Oscar Peterson (piano feature)

  • Tutu - Miles Davis

  • Human Nature - Steve Porcaro/John Bettis (Michael Jackson vocals)

  • Strange Fruit - Abel Meeropol  (vocal or instrumental feature)

* Silent Night (Christmas) – public domain