Advanced Sheet Music from Kendor Music: Professional Standards

As recorded by the Bob Mintzer Big Band on Incredible Journey, a recurring melodic motif, driving funk groove, and fully-voiced harmonic landscape give this chart real substance and audience appeal. S...

This book was written to supplement the solo literature available to high school and college drum set players. Each solo pays homage to a famous jazz drummer. A full performance CD includes all the tu...

For proficient percussionists only, this colorful opus calls for bongos (2), toms (3), cymbals (2) and bass drum.

Listed in Teaching Music through Performance in Jazz (GIA Publications) and recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra on their Central Park North album, this great collaboration between band...

This quartet in three movements draws upon the jazz, classical and R&B traditions. Knowing how to handle swing 8th notes, a slow choral, and an even 8th note funk groove is essential. Lots of rhythmic...

This grade 6 original was written to showcase a player's virtuosity and agility on an instrument that's too seldom given the artistic credit it deserves. The 3-part work features a heroic main theme,...

As recorded by the Bob Mintzer Big Band on Incredible Journey, this upbeat tune puts the whole band through its paces over repetitive Latin rhythms. Alto sax, piano and drums are the designated solois...

Commissioned by the Gates Chili High School Jazz Ensemble in Rochester, New York, this original for proficient groups alternates between a Latin and straight 8th-note feel, and draws on the ascending...

Originally composed for English horn by classical composer Luigi Cherubini, this sonata translates beautifully for proficient low brass soloists. Known for his sensational dramatic flare, especially i...

Originally composed for English horn by classical composer Luigi Cherubini, this sonata translates beautifully for proficient low brass soloists. Known for his sensational dramatic flare, especially i...

Originally composed for English horn by classical composer Luigi Cherubini, this sonata translates beautifully for proficient low brass soloists. Known for his sensational dramatic flare, especially i...

As recorded by Buddy Rich on the album of the same name, this 'fat-back' rock classic begins with a repeated vamp featuring solo guitar and/or piano before a horn trio -- alto, tenor, trumpet -- paves...

As recorded by the Bob Mintzer Big Band on Incredible Journey, this gospel ballad is a full-length solo feature for tenor sax. It starts with a rubato intro in 4/4 before switching to 6/4, and goes ou...

Recently recorded by the H2 Big Band on You're It! (Jazzed Media 1053), this driving shuffle for proficient groups is imaginative, skillfully orchestrated, and harmonically unique. Solo space is provi...

This moderate shuffle recalls the energetic hand-clapping tradition of a church camp meeting, and the energy level stays strong throughout. This 8 bar blues in the key of Db, is playable by advanced l...

Cantonese music has widely influenced the cultures of China and Southeast Asia. This arrangement is based on ancient music from the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1126) dynasties. It portrays wild geese...

As recorded by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra on the album Consummation (Blue Note), this great ensemble chart in a driving funk groove features intricate, interlocking figures, short cameos...

for Bells/Field (or Tenor)Drum, Xylophone (or Marimba, Vibes)/Woodblock, Timani (2)/Triangle, Snare Drum, Bass Drum, and Cymbals

In this terrific tip-of-the-hat tribute to Don Menza's famous Groovin' Hard chart, saxes get the major workout, supported by cleverly written brass parts, all in a shuffle swing style. Solos are given...

Manuel de Falla's brilliant and descriptive Spanish ballet becomes a brass showpiece featuring each quintet member as a soloist for the ballet's opening scenes and concludes with the dramatic and ener...

Marked allegro vivace (quarter note = c. 144) at the beginning, this adaptation of Offenbach's most famous theme is the perfect program closer or encore for proficient quintets! Melody lines are share...

This quintet setting retains all of the musical splendor and brilliance of the original Dukas scoring for full orchestral brass section. One of the most often performed brass fanfares, it is arranged...

This arrangement of the classic Oboe Quartet In F, K. 370 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a must-have for the grade 6 piccolo soloist. Arranged by expert flutist Amy Kempton and edited by Carl Strommen,...

The fourth movement of Friedrich Kuhlau's Grand Trio, Op. 90, first published in 1828, is arranged here for grade 6 flute trios. This challenging piece starts in B minor, then switches to B major near...

From Felix Mendelssohn's Song Without Words (Op. 67, No. 4), this piece has also been refered to as Bee's Wedding since the busy accompaniment to the melody resembles the buzzing of bees.