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Does anyone know if this is published and available anywhere at all?
It is the piano solo piece that is part of Ellington's Queen Suite.

Thanks.

It seems to be available in this volume from sheetmusicplus.com :

Single Petal

Regards

go to www.sheetmusicdirect.com i went every were looking for it also. Marcus Roberts has a great version of this song on itunes but so do alot of other jazz and classical pianist. his version just had me on the floor. hey while you are at the itunes website check out Chucho Valdes tribute to Bill evans. The name of the piece is Bill Evans, if you like Single Petals of a Rose you will love Chucho's tribute to Bill.

Thanks for that Bruce, but I wonder if that is in anyway a watered down version. It says that the book contains "transcriptions". Though the original is for piano, so hard to understand what that means.

Luke, thanks for that link but I doubt that is really the full score. It looks like it is just chording.

I wonder if the Ellington estate just has alot of things tied up unpublished. I came across a CD by Jean Yves Thibaudet doing Ellington and his version was credited to Jed Distler, a composer and critic. (I tried contacting him for it, but got no response) But I'm thinking that if Thibaudet had to go to Distler for a version wouldn't that mean it's unpublished?

Sometimes I think the perfect music software would be something you could feed in an MP3 and it comes out as a perfectly rendered piece of sheet music. Probably is such a thing already, but I'd wonder as to the accuracy.

The description of the volume says : "Note-for-Note Keyboard Transcriptions. Softcover. 226 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.311731).[...]
Authentic transcriptions of 23 classics by 23 jazz masters such as Duke Ellington...."

If they are indeed "authentic transcriptions" of something that Ellington himself (and others) may never have written out in complete notation, they are probably as close as you'll get to what Ellington played.

Regards,

not to belabor the point, but do you think he really didn't write things down? his music always was quite composed and actually i found a Library of Congress archive listing all the various pieces of sheet music. this piece was among them.

I can't answer that question, but I have heard and read that many jazz pianist-composers did not always write everything out, note by note. What else might an "authentic transcription" be?

Regards,

yeah, i guess i AM belaboring the point. i understand your point now. might as well flip for that book even though I dont want any of the other stuff, it looks like that's the only thing i'm going to find. thanks for finding that. i missed finding it myself when i searched their website.