Swing Sheet Music from Kendor Music: Rhythmic Precision and Style

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...

Based on the chord changes to Bye Bye Blackbird by Ray Henderson, this swinging chart is a workout for the full ensemble. Written for beginning groups, it's a great chart to introduce swing figures on...

This bright swing for beginning groups is based on the chord changes to Lullaby Of Birdland by George Shearing. The open solo section (written or ad lib) features any soloist, with solo sheets provide...

Based on the chord changes to Stella By Starlight by Victor Young, this swinging chart is a workout for the full ensemble. Written for beginning groups, everyone gets a turn at the melody, and there a...

This new advanced level edition is taken directly from the original ink parts that were on the stands at the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) debut performance in...

Great writing in the Basie tradition is presented here for developing jazz musicians, featuring accessible brass ranges, notated rhythm section parts, and flexible instrumentation requirements. It eve...

Set in a moderately slow swing, this big band vocal feature draws its strength from straight-ahead figures and full, rich voicings. There is no improvised solo chorus; instead a wonderful sax soli pro...

After a 35 year hiatus, multi-Grammy winning composer/arranger Sammy Nestico has joined forces with the Count Basie Orchestra to arrange this chart for the A Very Swingin' Basie Christmas CD (Concord...

Sammy Nestico, one of the most important figures in the evolution of the big band sound, has arranged this holiday classic for the Count Basie Orchestra recording A Very Swingin' Basie Christmas (Conc...

First released in 1954, this easy-level setting of the 19th-century folk song popularized by Glenn Miller in 1939 begins with an 8-bar marcato intro before settling into the familiar medium swing groo...

This famous Irving Berlin song adapts exceedingly well to the woodwind quintet format. Subtle colors, changing textures and a snappy tempo will make it a great change-of-pace number for any program.

Featuring many of the pleasing voicings and rhythmic twists of his jazz ensemble charts, Jeff Jarvis begins this Duke Ellington classic in a light samba style before evolving into a hard-swing feel mi...

Modeling the scale patterns found in today's jazz and commercial music, this set of studies in all keys strengthens and develops the technical vocabulary of lead and section players alike. The sequenc...

This slice of Americana shows off all the colors of the brass quintet and each of the players in the ensemble gets a turn in the spotlight. This is the definition of a "flagwaver" and will work well i...