From This Moment On

Here is a swinging transcription of a classic chart from the Frank Sinatra/Nelson Riddle collaboration album "A Swingin' Affair." Unlike many Riddle charts, this one does not follow the time honored route of interspersing the vocal choruses with an instrumental bridge. It features a vocalist all the way through with the support from the band growing in depth and intensity from start to finish. The opening trombone solo behind the vocal has been written out as played, and the string lines have been removed and scored back into the reeds, making the chart playable by a standard 5-4-4-4 big band. Aside from alto 1 leading a short four-measure passage on clarinet, there are no sax doubles. The vocal key starts in F and modulates to G midway through the chart. Sinatra's vocal line is presented as sung.