Neil A. Kjos Music Company

This 12/8 minor blues was inspired by Duke Ellington's film score for Anatomy of a Murderer.

A musical journey from Chicago to New Orleans provides the backdrop for this chart featuring a wide range of styles found in this area of the country.

With cool licks, your students are sure to get into this tune. El Gato is a great introduction to the Latin style. The chart draws inspiration from the cha-cha where the rhythms are very idiomatic of...

With cool licks, your students are sure to get into this tune. El Gato is a great introduction to the Latin style. The chart draws inspiration from the cha-cha where the rhythms are very idiomatic of...

Give warmth to your next concert with One for Winnette, a ballad that features solo trumpet all the way. This skillfully crafted chart allows your band to focus on musicianship, dynamics, and phrasing...

Give warmth to your next concert with One for Winnette, a ballad that features solo trumpet all the way. This skillfully crafted chart allows your band to focus on musicianship, dynamics, and phrasing...

Get your trumpet soloist 'out front' on this solid-swinging feature chart. The approachable harmonic progression is very blues-like, and makes for a straight-ahead blowing tune that will have your aud...

Back Bay is an inlet of Casco Bay, on the scenic coast of Maine. This blues-infused swing chart was written to help students with the II-V-I progression, and the improv section is based entirely on th...

Snowdogs Rock was commissioned by the Central Middle School Jazz Ensemble in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The piece introduces some different musical elements in the context of a familiar groove (rock)...

The Iguana Returns is a grade 2 funk chart. The nomadic iguana (first introduced in a previous release in this series, Please Don't Climb On The Iguana) is a steel sculpture outside of the Science Mus...

Let this energetic salsa tune take you and your audience to paradise! Your students will love playing El Paraiso so much that the skills they're developing will seem effortless. Work on a solid rhythm...

This funk chart roars from the very first downbeat, and the energy keeps pumping all the way. Moderate brass ranges and careful notation in the rhythm section make this chart very playable for young b...

A ballad is the great way to feature a strong soloist, but what if the ballad is not written to feature

Latin Quarter is the latest from the talented pen of Bruce Pearson,

The plunger has a long and storied history in the jazz trombone tradition, and this piece continues

The plunger has a long and storied history in the jazz trombone tradition, and this piece continues that legacy. 'Keep The Stick' is flexible enough to feature a single soloist or the entire trombone...

Georgia trumpet icon John Bradley commissioned this ballad that is a beautiful feature for solo

Georgia trumpet icon John Bradley commissioned this ballad that is a beautiful feature for solo trumpet or flugelhorn. Colorful and interesting harmonies combine with fresh melodic writing to create a...