Charlie Hearnshaw's scores and lyrics

updated May 2006

Jazz instrumental tunes and songs by Charlie Hearnshaw and Maxine Green.
There are some PDF and some JPEG files. To download a JPEG drag and drop it on your desktop
If you would like the music to one of our tunes and it is not listed below, e-mail us and we will send it to you if possible.

Most rececnt additions are the song "Last Night in Truro" and the jazz instrumental "Dans le shed"

 

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Songs and jazz instrumentals in alphabetical order.

The songs also work well as jazz instrtumentals.

 

 

songsheet, scores
& lyrics

 

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Dans le shed
dancy bossa nova

instrumental

 
concert
clarinet in Bb
alto sax
tenor sax
 

Everyday
The lyrics describe the angst of someone who is in love with a celebrity.

song

mp3
songsheet
lyrics
concert
Bb clarinet
alto sax
tenor sax


Jazz & Waltzes
instrumental version, no singing on the
recording

Fan Belt
bebop instrumental

 
concert page 1 page 2

Bb page 1 Bb page 2

alto sax

bass page 1 bass page 2


 

Flat Calm
Slow tune evoking a hot day aboard a becalmed yacht off the coast of Cornwall.

instrumental

 
concert
 
 

Heavy Rain
A song about women who are strangers in the city, and turning points in their lives.

song

 

live mp3

songsheet
lyrics
concert
clarinet
alto sax


Slotang
instrumental version

Hi-tech slidings
free jazz inducing poem in seven overlapping sections

jazz poem

 
guitar
bass
 

I Saw Her First
Thoughtful ballad

instrumental

 
concert
clarinet
 

Last Night In Truro
A voyage in a small boat down the river Fal, along the Cornwall and Devon coast and into the river Dart

song

mp3
songsheet
lyrics
concert
Bb clarinet
alto sax

Hearnsahw/Green Duo CD "Sailing By" track 15

 

 
 

 

 


Le choix
If you had to choose just one song by Georges Brassens, which one would it be? Lyrics in French by Lesley Lawn

song

 

mp3
songsheet
lyrics & translation
Projet Brassens CD Le vent
track 7

Little Red Buttons

 
 

clarinet in Bb

 


 

 
 
 
 

Memoirs
"Remember me in your memoirs, I'm leaving mine behind me, I'm going where you'll never find me, preserve my sweet memory..".

song

mp3
songsheet
lyrics
concert
Bb clarinet
alto sax
 

Mon poisson d'avril
A song about the French equivalent of April Fool's Day. Lyrics in French by Lesley Lawn. Lesley Lawn's commentary on the poem.

song

 
songsheet
songsheet + written piano part
concert
clarinet in Bb
alto sax
 

Nelson
African township

instrumental

 
concert page 1
concert page 2
 

Next To Nothing
ballad

  concert
alto sax
 

Once or Twice
dancy latin jazz

instrumental

 
concert page 1 page 2
alto sax page 1 page 2
bass page 1 page 2
 

Reggae Cruising
"Step outside and come for the ride, take a chance, decide..."

reggae groove with a distinctive bass line

song

mp3
songsheet

lyrics

concert
bass
Bb clarinet
alto sax

tenor sax

Hearnshaw/Barrett Duo CD Slotang instrumental version

Slotang
slow tango with a quasi-baroque opening section

instrumental

 
concert
Bb clarinet page 1 page 2
alto sax page 1 page 2
bass page 1 page 2
Slotang

Snow
fast jazz samba

instrumental

 
concert

Charlie Hearnahw Quartet CD
Yesterday's Waltz

 

Two Clarinets
A simple and straightforward swing piece. It's charm lies in the sound of two lead instruments playing in 3rds, (6ths on the B sections).

 
1 in C
2 in C
clarinet 1 in Bb
clarinet 2 in Bb
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Un boeuf sur le quai
"Woman, if you wait for Mr Perfect, you'll have to wait a month of somedays..."

song

mp3 song

mp3 instrumental

songsheet
lyrics
concert
Bb clarinet
alto sax

Jazz & Waltzes instrumental

Yesterday's Waltz

instrumental

 

 

 

 
guitar
bass

Yesterday's Waltz instrumental