Swing Sheet Music from Kendor Music: Rhythmic Precision and Style

This medium swing chart for advancing groups utilizes variations on the half tone/whole tone scale. It contains interesting orchestration sections using a small band, and the ensemble and shout chorus...

The title of this bright swing excursion for advancing groups refers to the bebop line shared by the saxophone and brass sections. The main theme includes some interesting harmonic twists, but the sol...

Built on an extended 16-bar minor blues, this relaxed original shifts between two and four feels to create subtle contrasts within the swing style. Ideal for advancing groups and dedicated to the Comp...

This engaging swing original for advancing groups alternates between 2 and 4 feels while providing interesting ensemble passages for everyone. Ample articulations and dynamics are provided throughout,...

This original for advancing groups definitely lives up to its name as it transitions through a variety of moods, swinging hard every step of the way. Adding to the appeal is an 11-bar chorale that's p...

Sure to delight audiences with an abundance of interesting original material and surprise interludes, the superior orchestration techniques in this chart will make bands of all ability levels sound im...

This solidly scored chart was originally recorded at the world famous Lighthouse Cafe by the Lennie Niehaus Octet on a compact disc entitled Sunday Afternoon At Hermosa Beach. This big band version fo...

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...

This exciting, up tempo swing chart for advancing groups, which features solos for 1st Alto Saxophone, 2nd Trumpet and Piano (written or ad lib), a saxophone soli and an ensemble chorus which moves fr...

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...

Written in a hard driving shuffle style, it features all sections of the band with written or ad lib solo space for tenor saxophone. There is also an acappella feature for the winds that will keep eve...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

This swinging blues original for beginning groups is based on the chord changes to Bags' Groove by Milt Jackson. It features fun figures, infectious rhythmic figures, and dynamics which grow from a wh...

This swing chart for beginning groups is based on the chord changes to Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise by Sigmund Romberg, and made famous by clarinetist/ big band leader Artie Shaw. The solo section...