Sheet Music Downloads from Kendor Music: Essential Charts for Band

Requiring no improvisation, these creative originals in a variety of jazz styles encourage players to focus on good ensemble blend, balance and phrasing. Paying careful attention to articulations and...

Written to give developing jazz musicians the chance to hone their interpretative skills in trio settings for like instruments, this outstanding set features 10 concise tunes in swing, Latin, ballad a...

This collection of 18 audition/performance etudes based on the chord progressions to popular jazz standards, blues, and rhythm changes. The collection was designed for honors jazz band auditions, solo...

This essential book for jazz ensemble auditions, recitals, festivals, and lessons includes 20 etudes based on the changes to popular jazz standards so players learn to improvise over the chord progres...

JAMZ is a collection of 15 full-length solos written in contemporary styles including funk, hip-hop, rock, funk ballad, shuffle and gospel grooves. Appropriate for individual use or in private lessons...

The title of this Ellington classic is an appropriate way to describe the sound that a baritone-tuba quartet can obtain with control and practice. This grade 3 setting contains solos, duets, good deve...

Requiring no improvisation, these creative originals in a variety of jazz styles encourage players to focus on good ensemble blend, balance and phrasing. Paying careful attention to articulations and...

Requiring no improvisation, these creative originals in a variety of jazz styles encourage players to focus on good ensemble blend, balance and phrasing. Paying careful attention to articulations and...

This exciting grade 4 original in the swing genre features clearly marked articulations and dynamics. A great deal of variety is present in the form of duet and ensemble writing, jazz voicings, and a...

Scored for the standard quintet instrumentation, this version of Irving Berlin's classic hit calls for equal contributions from every player. Well-placed contrasts in dynamics and changes in key add m...

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This grade 4 brass quintet arrangement of the popular jazz-flavored trumpet solo by legendary composer and arranger Sammy Nestico showcases a solo trumpet and was originally dedicated by Nestico to th...

This time tested favorite by Duke Ellington from Sophisticated Ladies has been skillfully adapted for brass quintet by critically acclaimed writer Jeff Jarvis. Featuring many of the pleasing voicings...

Brass quintets will really enjoy this version of W.C. Handy's iconic song of 1914. Popularized through the years by countless jazz artists -- Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Art Tatum, Bil...

Featuring an array of 30 classics and originals for grade 2-3 players, the music in these collections has been carefully chosen and edited to ensure that it is idiomatic for each pair of instruments....

These grade 4 settings of three piano rags hail from the early and late periods of the classical ragtime era (1899, 1915, 1916).

Originally written in 1901 by Joplin soon after he moved from Sedalia to St. Louis (Missouri), this buoyant rendering for quintet features several fun-loving trombone glisses and an authentic moderate...

We welcome tubist/composer Mike Forbes to the Kendor family of writers with these grade 4 arrangements of one of the world's most beloved folksongs. They offer the perfect opportunity to work on tone,...

Popularized by Aaron Copland in his 1944 score for Appalachian Spring, this 19th-century Shaker dance tune lends itself beautifully to the rich sound of a baritone-tuba quartet. This fun-loving, theme...

This creative adaptation of the well known theme (also known as Carol Of The Bells) breaks the famous motive into its hemiola components and divides them among all four players. A more conventional se...

This arrangement is a perfect addition to the brass quintet repertoire for both concert and contest. Set with moods and textures that are both majestic and reflective, this presentation of the classic...

This well-known Italian song by Luigi Denza is great fun to play. Adapted here for grade 3 flute soloist or grade 3+ trombone soloist, Christensen has masterfully arranged this theme in idiomatic sett...

A grade 4 arrangement of one of the world's most beloved folksongs. It offers the perfect opportunity to work on tone, intonation, and phrasing while providing your audience with a performance that wi...

Popularized by Aaron Copland in his 1944 score for Appalachian Spring, this 19th-century Shaker dance tune lends itself beautifully to the rich sound of a trombone quartet. By assigning two or more pl...