Fiji Printing

Jan Berry’s music archive from the 1960s remains largely intact—one of the largest surviving collections of original music manuscripts used by Wrecking Crew studio musicians in Hollywood’s finest recording studios.

Some of Jan’s best music arrangements for Jan & Dean (and other artists) are being transcribed and published to get them on the public record, and to invite further study of the music. These publications provide jazz ensembles, orchestras, and other combos with the authentic parts to some of the most iconic music of the early to mid-1960s.

Common Instrumentation in Jan Berry's Original Music Scores from the 1960s:

• Guitar (chords with slash notation and occational pitch notation).
• Bass Guitar (treble clef, pitch notation).
• Bass (pitch notation).
• Drums (standard notation, used by two drummers playing in tandem, in unison).
• Percussion (all types, standard notation).
• Piano (chords with slash notation and occational pitch notation).
• Brass (trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn, trombone, tuba).
• Woodwinds (flute, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinent; oboe, bassoon, contrabassoon, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, harmonica).
• Strings (harp, violin, viola, cello, contrabass).