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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...

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 colorful setting of the great Berlin hit features three contrasting moods: a gentle, pyramid-like opening; an energetic, jazz chorus midsection; and a haunting bluesy ending. A swing interpretati...

Considerato come la prima composizione ragtime pubblicata, questo passo a due in levare del 1897 richiede precisione ritmica da parte di tutti e offre opportunità uniche di assolo "come scritto o impr...

This Duke Ellington classic from Sophisticated Ladies has been skillfully adapted for flute quartet by composer/arranger James Christensen. Perfect for lighter chamber music programming or as an encor...

This grade 5 percussion trio functions much like a jazz trio. The tune is played with variations, followed by a section for improvisation, and then finishes with the tune again to bring it to a happy...

This grade 5 percussion trio functions much like a jazz trio. The tune is played with variations, followed by a section for improvisation, and then finishes with the tune again to bring it to a happy...

Murray Houllif's swingin' version of this great Roaring Twenties hit features all the razzmatazz of that fabulous era. Accessible to many, equipment requirements are flexible and limited to common ins...

This exceedingly groovy jazz original was written for percussion ensembles who want to swing the roof off! It's a high-energy conversation between five players on bells, xylophone, marimba, chimes and...

This exceedingly groovy jazz original was written for percussion ensembles who want to swing the roof off! It's a high-energy conversation between five players on bells, xylophone, marimba, chimes and...

In our Ensembles Without Instruments, this jazzy quartet featuring vocal sounds, hand clapping, finger snapping and other body percussion sounds pays tribute to the legendary bebop drummers Max Roach,...

Se siete alla ricerca di qualcosa di diverso per completare il programma di un concerto, ecco un'entusiasmante cavalcata hoedown che tira fuori tutte le carte in regola! Pieno di frasi blues e ritmi s...

Se siete alla ricerca di qualcosa di diverso per completare il programma di un concerto, ecco un'entusiasmante cavalcata hoedown che tira fuori tutte le carte in regola! Pieno di frasi blues e ritmi s...

Se siete alla ricerca di qualcosa di diverso per completare il programma di un concerto, ecco un'entusiasmante cavalcata hoedown che tira fuori tutte le carte in regola! Pieno di frasi blues e ritmi s...

Take a tasty musical trip to the carnival with this grade 1 work written in 3/4 time. Based in the key of D major, it offers elementary rhythms and a simple call-and-response section. Each set include...

Your students will have a lot to cluck about with this grade 1, swing-based piece. Based in the key of D major, it features easy repetitive rhythms throughout and offers a mix of pizzicato and arco pl...

Here's a fun piece that your beginning string students will ask to play again and again!

Why not invite your students to imagine their favorite confectionery treats when playing this fun-loving swing tune in D major?! Sure to satisfy any sweet tooth, it can be played as written or as an a...

Your students will be grooving to the sweet, fruit-filled sounds of this 12-bar blues based tune for grade 1+ groups. The easy syncopated rhythms will be fun to play and the piece can be played in eit...

We welcome George Frueh to the Kendor family of writers with this western style blues original that lets young groups experience the fun of playing in the swing style. Written in the key of D major, i...

This imaginative jazz waltz based on a standard blues chord progression will be a refreshing change-of-pace for any concert program and provides a great opportunity to teach students to swing 8th note...