Mike Dana: Intermediate Sheet Music

This is a captivating, contemporary even-eighth note ballad in the ECM tradition. Your 1st Alto player can really shine during this tuneful original for advancing groups. The composer highly recommend...

A great jazz standard played around 178 BPM, this swing chart features alto sax (suggested written solo provided), and a drum solo played in between band hits. Lead trumpet range is to written high C....

Here's a funky-but-swinging New Orleans street beat featuring a front line of trumpet, tenor saxophone, and trombone. A great groove, catchy call-and-response and swinging ensemble sections, reasonabl...

A great jazz standard played around 178 BPM, this swing chart features alto sax (suggested written solo provided), and a drum solo played in between band hits. Lead trumpet range is to written high C....

Here's a funky-but-swinging New Orleans street beat featuring a front line of trumpet, tenor saxophone, and trombone. A great groove, catchy call-and-response and swinging ensemble sections, reasonabl...

Suitable as an opener or second tune in a festival set, the half-time feel of this hip-hop chart for advancing groups is sure to be a big hit with everyone! Trumpet and tenor sax solos can be played u...

Suitable as an opener or second tune in a festival set, the half-time feel of this hip-hop chart for advancing groups is sure to be a big hit with everyone! Trumpet and tenor sax solos can be played u...

This is a captivating, contemporary even-eighth note ballad in the ECM tradition. Your 1st Alto player can really shine during this tuneful original for advancing groups. The composer highly recommend...

Aus der Reihe 'Bernaerts Music for Christmas'.

Aus der Reihe 'Bernaerts Music for Christmas'.

From the series 'Bernaerts Music for Christmas'.

Bounce House is an up-tempo chart based on a D minor blues and a recurring bass ostinato. It features your soloist of choice at C (a separate sheet of changes is provided) and your drummer at D. Some...

The chart revolves around the rhythm section grove that starts at the top. The groove continues at A, then breaks into time at A9, back to the grove at A13. The pattern continues at B. Horns (as alway...

This driving blues shuffle, in the Thad & Mel style, makes a terrific opener. There are a couple of twists: the chart starts in Bb, goes to Eb for the solos(based on blues changes, trasposed for any s...

Watch what happens when your band plays this medium-up swing/Latin chart! It's loosely based on not one, not two, but three jazz standards. It swings so cool and sways so gentle, your audience will sa...

Azucar is a Latin chart loosely based on Stanley Turrentine's 'Sugar'. The melody is played by a trio (trumpet, alto, tenor). The solo section can feature anyone in the band, and the simple changes an...

This is a beautiful chart, with a unique feel. Chart opens with a warm chorale melody, then evolves into an ethereal, straight-eighth (mm=140) ECM-ish feel. Solo changes are included for tenor and tru...

Here's a medium-up tempo modal chart that your band (and audience) will really enjoy. A contemporary head sits on top of an ostinato in open fifths, while the drummer keeps things energized with Elvin...

A great opener: a hard-driving minor blues shuffle always gets the crowd in the right mood. Your tenor player has a short bluesy cadenza at the top and again at the end, and is also featured on the so...

The 'spicy burrito' returns with a vengeance in this Latin chart that sounds much harder than it plays. An ominous opening leads into a 12/8 feel that alternates with a driving Afro-Cuban groove. You'...

Otono (commissioned by Curtis Gaesser for the Folsom Jazz Festival) is a moody, medium-tempo Latin chart, based on the changes of another well-known tune about fall foliage. It's an ideal 'middle-of-t...