Black Coffee | E♭ Sheet Music
Jazz Lead Sheet Transposed for E♭ — alto sax, baritone sax
Lyrics
Black Coffee 1948 - Paul Francis Webster / Sonny Burke I'm feeling mighty lonesome Haven't slept a wink I walk the floor and watch the door And in between I drink Black coffee Love's a hand me down brew I'll never know a Sunday In this weekday room I'm talking to the shadows 1 o'clock to 4 And Lord, how slow the moments go When all I do is pour Black coffee Since the blues caught my eye I'm hanging out on Monday My Sunday dreams to dry Now a man is born to go a lovin' A woman's born to weep and fret To stay at home and tend her oven And drown her past regrets In coffee and cigarettes I'm moody all the morning Mourning all the night And in between it's nicotine And not much hard to find Coffee Feelin' low as the ground It's driving me crazy just waiting for my baby To maybe come around My nerves have gone to pieces My hair is turning gray All I do is drink black coffee Since my man's gone away
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Read it in your key: Concert (C) (piano, guitar, voice) B♭ (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet) E♭ (alto sax, baritone sax) Bass clef (trombone, bass, cello)
About this Black Coffee lead sheet
This is the jazz lead sheet for Black Coffee, written by Paul Francis Webster / Sonny Burke in 1948, transposed for E♭ instruments — alto sax, baritone sax. The melody and the chord symbols are written a major sixth above concert pitch, so what you read matches what the rhythm section plays. The chart is written in B♭ major (concert Db major), in 4/4 time. Read it here for free and play it back — the band keeps sounding in concert pitch while you read your part. Need another key? Switch the Transpose preset above.
- Composer
- Paul Francis Webster / Sonny Burke
- Year
- 1948
- Key
- B♭ major (written) · Db major (concert)
- Edition
- E♭ transposed — alto sax, baritone sax
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Style
- Ballad
- Tempo
- 66 BPM
- Genre
- Jazz, Great American Songbook
- Format
- Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
Black Coffee chord changes
The chord progression of Black Coffee transposed for E♭ instruments (alto sax, baritone sax), written in B♭ major — concert Db major — 33 bars, four to a line. These are the changes as a alto sax player reads them; the rhythm section sees the concert chart.
| B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | B♭7♯9 E7add13 | | E♭7 | % | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | B♭7♯9 G7 | | Cm7 | F7add4 | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | | B♭7♯9 E9♯11 | E♭m7 G♯7 | B♭m7 | Cm7♭5 F7 | | B♭ | C♯m7 F♯7 | B G♯m7 | C♯m7 F♯7 | | Cm7 F7 | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | | B♭7♯9 E7add13 | E♭7 | % | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | | B♭7♯9 G7 | Cm7 | F7add4 | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 | | B♭7♯9 B7♯9 |
About "Black Coffee"
Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo (born 11 March 1976), better known by his stage name Black Coffee, is a South African DJ, record producer and songwriter. His accolades include eight South African Music Awards, four DJ Awards, two Metro FM Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.nHe began his career in 1994, and gained recognition for his participation in the 2004 Red Bull Music Academy a decade later. Maphumulo established the record label Soulistic Music to release his debut self-titled album Black Coffee (2005), which incorporated elements of R&B and jazz.
