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Maiden Voyage Lead Sheet

“Maiden Voyage” is the title track of Herbie Hancock’s 1965 Blue Note album, featuring Freddie Hubbard, George Coleman, Ron Carter...

“Dolphin Dance” closes Herbie Hancock’s 1965 album Maiden Voyage. It’s one of his most harmonically sophisticated compositions, with a flowing...

“Everything Happens to Me” was composed by Matt Dennis with lyrics by Tom Adair in 1940. Frank Sinatra recorded it...

“Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” was composed by keyboardist Joe Zawinul and recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1966. Played on...

“Tenderly” was composed by Walter Gross with lyrics by Jack Lawrence in 1946. Originally a waltz, it became a hit...

“One Note Samba” (“Samba de Uma Nota Só”) was composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with lyrics by Newton Mendonça around...

“Boplicity” is a composition credited to “Cleo Henry,” a pseudonym for Miles Davis (using his mother’s name), with an arrangement...

“Blue Skies” was written by Irving Berlin in 1926 and introduced in the musical Betsy. It was later featured in...

“All Blues” is from Miles Davis’s 1959 masterpiece Kind of Blue. It’s a modal blues in 6/8 time with a...

“My Foolish Heart” was composed by Victor Young with lyrics by Ned Washington for the 1949 film of the same...

“Cheek to Cheek” was written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where Fred Astaire sang it to...

“Blue in Green” appears on Miles Davis’s 1959 album Kind of Blue. It’s credited to Davis, though pianist Bill Evans...