L. McKenna Noten für Blasorchester

This is a beautiful jazz ballad style of this traditional Irish tune. It is absolutely beautiful and would sound great with an older group. It is just that good. Larry has great voice leading so all...

No one takes a traditional song and uses jazz harmonies to spice up a song better than Larry McKenna. Further, he understand how to play all the instruments and how to lead one note to the next as to...

A real blues for beginning band! This is very easy with no clarinets crossing the break and the 1st trumpet's highest note is Bb. The students hear a real blues sound while you introduce a few new not...

This is a beautiful jazz ballad. This 1st clarinets play above the break. The 1st trumpet's highest note is C.

Everyone knows this song, but have you every heard it start out like a jazz ballad, with beautiful major 7th's, 13th chords with a flatted 5? It is all written so easily and so beautifully. Then the s...

The title is obviously a play on words, and it is a great introduction to easy syncopation in a jazz song. The sub title is 'Sync or Swing.' The clarinets do not cross the break. 1st trumpet's highes...

Play this song at Halloween or any time. The students will love playing the jazzy little tune. The get to play easy grace notes and swing rhythms. The harmonies are all jazzed up. The clarinets do not...

Larry McKenna, a fabulous jazz musician takes the famous Chopin Prelude and using jazz harmonies to give it a different flavor. It is slow and easy. Clarinets do not cross the break. 1st trumpet's hi...

Here is a different sound for the traditional American folksong. Larry McKenna, a great jazz musician, wrote this work with jazz harmonies in jazz ballad style. It is easy to play and Larry knows how...

There is a jazzy little twist to his Christmas carol. It is perfect for teaching dotted quarter/eighth and dotted eighth/sixteenth note rhythms. Only the 1st clarinets cross the break. 1st trumpet's...

Larry McKenna has a way of writing jazz that is just easy and fun to play. Here is a song to introduce dotted eighth/sixteenth notes and right at the end of the song is an eighth note triplet. It is f...

Just like the title says, it will make your toes tap. It is a swinging song much in big band jazz style. 1st clarinets play above the break. The 1st trumpet's highest note is C.