Cogan's Jazz Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

By Mike Strand, ASCAP This is a bossa nova lead sheet for a jazz or Latin band, with a singer.  It's useful as the basis for a variety of arrangements, contrafacts and improvisations. The audio sample is a jazz bossa nova accompaniment from iReal Pro combined with a Finale PrintMusic tune.This piece of music honors a sports pub, Cogan's, in the composer's home town, where there's a jazz jam every Monday evening: Fun times listening to creative musicians and enjoying good food and drink.The first 32 bars present the basic tune, with lyrics, and the second 32 bars exemplify what can be done in terms of improvisations or contra facts.Here are the lyrics to Cogan's:Come to Cogan's, if you want to hearGood jazz while you drink a beer,Or coke, if you want to stay sober,And drive back home without fear.Cogan's sandwiches are so fine,They taste especially good with the wine (or cocktails),And great times with music friends,And good tunes from seven until nine.Sometimes I can't make Cogan's,When mundane life interferes.Then I promise myself to be thereNext time with Tony and his peers.Jazz jamming is an art formThat brings smiles or tears.It may escape the folks who wag their chins,But rewards the listener who really hears.