Blue Bossa | B♭ Sheet Music
Jazz Lead Sheet Transposed for B♭ — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
Lyrics
1963 - Kenny Dorham
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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 Blue Bossa lead sheet
This is the jazz lead sheet for Blue Bossa, written by Kenny Dorham in 1963, transposed for B♭ instruments — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet. The melody and the chord symbols are written a major second above concert pitch, so what you read matches what the rhythm section plays. The chart is written in D minor (concert C minor), 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
- Kenny Dorham
- Year
- 1963
- Key
- D minor (written) · C minor (concert)
- Edition
- B♭ transposed — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Style
- Bossa Nova
- Tempo
- 150 BPM
- Genre
- Jazz, Bossa nova
- Format
- Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
Blue Bossa chord changes
The chord progression of Blue Bossa transposed for B♭ instruments (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet), written in D minor — concert C minor — 16 bars, four to a line. These are the changes as a trumpet player reads them; the rhythm section sees the concert chart.
| Dm6 | % | Gm7 | % | | Em7♭5 | A7♭9 | Dm6 | % | | Fm7 | B♭7 | E♭maj7 | % | | Em7♭5 | A7 | Dm6 | % |
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