Sheet Music Downloads from Kendor Music: Essential Charts for Band

This clever original combines solid swing figures with a few unexpected twists -- just when it sounds like it's going to be in a minor key it suddenly switches to major. Advancing groups will really e...

Composed especially for Vaughn Weister's Famous Jazz Orchestra in Columbus (OH), this moderate swing chart is playable by advancing groups all the way to professionals. Featuring a driving groove and...

Here's an effective bright swing piece scored in the popular Count Basie style that is designed to make advancing groups sound their very best. As in many Basie-style works, dynamics and articulations...

Equally appropriate as an opener, closer, or anything in between, the solid swing groove will energize your band and its audiences. The melody shifts between swing 8th and triplet rhythms and brass ra...

This cleverly conceived swing chart for advancing groups is an intriguing opener written in the style of Thelonius Monk. Solo space is provided for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, and bass. The compo...

This burning swing/shuffle chart maintains the blues tradition while mixing in some contemporary harmonies, with nice shout sections for the entire ensemble. Written or ad lib solo space is included f...

Here's a great, moderately-fast-swing chart for advancing groups featuring the II-V progression that's common in many popular standards. The angular melody featuring wide skips and scale-like interval...

This swing original for advancing groups is equally appropriate as an opener, closer, or anything in between. Included are brief idiomatic saxophone soli passages, a stop-time section featuring the ho...

Dedicated to the late Larry Swist, this shuffle chart features solo changes in all the saxophone parts, a stop-time section featuring the trombones, as well as the other two wind sections. An exciting...

This contemporary fast swing chart for proficient groups utilizes dense clusters, challenging chord changes, and unpredictable form lengths. Starting soft, it builds gradually and ends big, covering t...

Composed for Curtis Gaesser's 2000 Folsom Jazz Festival, this work embodies the cleverness of Mike Dana's big band writing. Set in a medium swing feel, this straight ahead opener is perfect for festiv...

In this tip-of-the-hat tribute to one of the most pivotal eras of jazz, classic bebop vocabulary is set in a bright swing feel for proficient groups. It includes an open solo section and a drum solo.

Commissioned by the University of Miami Concert Jazz Band, this swinging riff-oriented blues employs sophisticated reharmonizations and modern horn voicings. Given the popularity of Pete McGuinness' r...

Swingin' hard from start to finish, this burner of a chart for proficient groups is a terrific program opener or closer. Featuring effective figures, brilliant orchestration, and a dramatic shout chor...

We welcome Tom Kubis to the Kendor family of writers with this swing chart that definitely lives up to its name. Solos are offered for soprano sax, trumpet and trombone, but the chart can be opened up...

Commissioned for the Cardinal Vaughn Memorial School Jazz Band in London, England, this swing shuffle original for proficient bands will energize players and audiences. Equally appropriate as an opene...

Recorded by the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra on First Flight (Summit DCD481), this breezy and relaxed melodic arrangement for proficient groups features warmly orchestrated brass, inviting chords fo...

Well-orchestrated, hard-swinging figures abound in this chart for proficient groups that's highly reminiscent of Coltrane's classic Equinox. Frequent use of triplet arpeggios and effective dynamic sha...

Written in a minor blues form featuring an 8-bar bridge, this challenging original depicts the music of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from the late '50s and early '60s. It requires an aggressive approa...

Commissioned by the New York University Jazz Ensemble, this medium uptempo foray with abstract overtones features solos by tenor and piano. The opening unison brass soli, joined by saxophone counterpo...

This original for proficient groups is the title track from a recent recording by the H2 Big Band (Jazzed Media 1053). Based on the chord changes in the jazz standard You're My Everything, it features...

We welcome Ryan Erik Adamsons to the Kendor family of writers with this swing original based on the chord changes to Autumn Leaves. Written for beginning groups, the solo section is written out with s...

This swing original for beginning groups based on the chord changes to There Will Never Be Another You by Warren and Gordon. Brass ranges are very accessible with trumpet up to F5 and F4 for trombone....

Based on the chord changes to I Got Rhythm by George Gershwin, this bright swing chart was written especially for beginning groups. Brass ranges are accessible with trumpet up to Eb5 and D4 for trombo...

This bright swing chart for beginning groups is based on the chord changes to "On A Slow Boat To China" by Frank Loesser. The solo section is playable by any instrument, with solo sheets provided in a...