Too Marvelous for Words

Are you familiar with Johnny Mercer? He wrote the lyrics to some of the greatest and most played standards in the history of jazz…Autumn Leaves, Days of Wine and Roses, I’m Old Fashioned and countless more.

Recently I fell in love with a lesser known standard credited to Mercer. It’s called “Too Marvelous for Words”. And although I’ve heard many straight-ahead versions by the likes of Sinatra, Ella, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and others, the two that really caught my ear were by Diana Krall and Eliane Elias. They both recorded it as a bossa! And it works so well that if you didn’t know the tune, you might think Jobim actually wrote it!

PDF & AUDIO DOWNLOAD:

The “Too Marvelous For Words” Files can be downloaded for $8.00. The download includes:  PDFs of the arrangement with both regular notation and TAB, MP3 of the arrangement, a Band in a Box file and a Midi file. The Midi file can be opened with the free notation app, MuseScore which allows you to loop sections, transpose or change tempo when practicing.