Kjos

Bossa at its best! This chart is an accessible bossa nova that provides students with an introduction to one of the most well-known styles of Brazilian music. There is enough syncopation to be...

Start your next concert with a powerful move! A perfect vehicle for teaching 16th-note rhythms, this funk chart has been carefully composed to make the rhythms easy to read and interpret. As is...

With accessible range and rhythms well within young player’s comfort zone, your students will be confident in playing this bluesy swing style chart. Adequate repetition, with just enough subtle...

Good times start here! The chart opens with just a snare drum playing back beats and the driving rock beat continues throughout. There are many opportunities for drum breaks. Some of these breaks...

Pass the Hot Sauce ignites an infectious “hot” Latin groove from the downbeat! Utilizing authentic, traditional rhythms and repetition, this chart allows your young band to lock in...

It’s ok to be off! 1/3 Off is based upon the most common form of American jazz, the 12-bar blues. The chart’s harmonic structure uses only the last 8 bars of a 12-bar blues,...

Strut your band’s stuff with this funky, New Orleans Second Line street beat chart. The piece begins quietly, but then the party really starts with all the wind players improvising collectively...

REFLECTIONS   Composed by Mark Camphouse   Resolutions has a double meaning embedded in its title: musical resolutions (dissonance resolving to consonance), and political resolutions as...

Andrew Boysen, Jr. - Neil A. Kjos Music Company In Flanders Fields can be performed in two ways: with any wind soloist, narrator and band, or with vocal soloist (soprano, alto, tenor,...

This programmatic work by composer Ryan Nowlin depicts the long career of a music teacher, and the impression that the students can leave on one's character over many years.  

LET IT BEGIN   Composed by Brad Ciechomski   Appropriate for the beginning of a concert, Let It Begin gives the young concert band a solid piece of music that helps them to sound mature...

LANDMARKS   Composed by Colin J. Brien   Landmarks depicts several areas of interest in and around the hometown of the commissioning school in Rochester New York. Evoking images of a...