Selected Instrumental Stock Arrangements

Afro-American Stocks predating 1920
Stock arrangements of music written by African-American composers/songwriters from the turn of the century to 1920. Also parts for vaudeville orchestra to back singers for songs written by African-American composers from the turn of the century to 1920.

Count Basie Stocks
Stock arrangements of music performed by the Count Basie band published by Bregman, Vocco, and Conn, 1938-1947.

Big Band Stocks 1935-1955
A selection of stock arrangements for full dance band published in America between 1935 and 1955. It represents only a tiny portion of our holdings. Emphasis on variety rather than significance or rarity.

Combo Stocks
A selection of stock arrangements for "combo" -- one-on-a-part ensembles usually of about eight pieces -- published in America during the years 1933-1961 (heavy emphasis on the years from 1938 through the mid-1950s).

Leeds Original Manuscript Series Arrangements
The Music Division's holdings in the Leeds Original Manuscript Series, published from 1940 to 1947, a series of stock arrangements which claimed to present the music as played by major dance bands.

Melrose Syncopation Series
The Music Division's holdings in the Melrose Syncopation Series, published during the years 1923-1937, perhaps the most prestigious series of stock arrangements ever published, including the works of Jelly Roll Morton and the King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. This list also contains our holdings in its de luxe companion series, the Melrose Dixieland Concert Series.

Selection of Pre-1935 Stock Arrangements
A selection of stock arrangements for full dance band published between 1920 and 1934. Emphasis on pieces which a reconstruction band might want to have in their repertory.