"If you have to ask what jazz is... you’ll never know." Louis Armstrong
Jazz, born in New Orleans around 1910, was formed through marching bands moving indoors, and mixing with ragtime, blues and other musical styles. No matter your taste, browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at our Jazz Sheet Music Downloads, and explore the wide world of Jazz with Stretta Music today!
Although jazz began very locally, and gradually spread more nationally, it wasn’t until the 1930s that it became more international, becoming popular through the new dance form Swing. Due to the economic crisis, many solo artists began to form big bands, like Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Duke Ellington. Soon Gypsy Jazz also sprung up, which, since it mainly used string instruments, was also called String Jazz, an excellent example being the French guitarist Django Rheinhardt. In the 1940s, through such jazz musicians as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis & Dizzy Gillespie, Bebop evolved, which is the basis for modern jazz. In Bebop, the tempo quickened, the harmonies became more complex, and there was more rhythmic freedom.
Although a lot of jazz throughout the ages was lead by instrumentalists, there were also many famous jazz singers, like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett and Jamie Cullum.
A few important jazz artists of the modern era include John Coltrane, Oscar Peterson and Wynton Marsalis.
for: 2 clarinets, bass clarinet
Sheet music
Item no.: 1288154
for: Flute
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 209449
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 767280
for: Alto saxophone [baritone saxophone]
Music lesson book (spiral binding), playback CD
Item no.: 365015
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1161620
pour saxophone alto
Collection Vincent David
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 635321
for: 5 saxophones (AATTBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 342886
for: 2 clarinets
Music score
Item no.: 1031617
Spielpartitur
for: STREICH- UND ZUPFINSTRUMENTE GITARRE DREI GITARREN
Ensemble score
Item no.: 298903
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 697036
Keyboards & C instruments & CD
for: Keyboards and C instruments
Buch + CD
Item no.: 334794
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 945998
Saxophone quintet s/a-a-(a/t)-t-b, also, playable as quartet, 3rd part optional
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar/AATBar) [5 saxophones (SAATBar/SATTBar/AAATBar/AATTBar)]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 660543
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 159557
for: Trumpet [cornet/flugelhorn], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 337521
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 291114
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 252776
for: HRN VC
Ensemble score
Item no.: 381591
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 776940
pour saxophone alto
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 660080
for: Combo [horn]
Realbook (F)
Item no.: 685837
for: Jazz-combo (4 flexible wind instruments, rhythm section)
Score
Item no.: 798811
Online audio (without sheet music)
Item no.: 685817
for: Voice, piano
Music score, CD
Item no.: 272512
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 552919
for: Trumpet, piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 492011
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Item no.: 171467
for: Mouth organ
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 304382
Edition Pro Salon
for: Violin, cello, piano; violin, instrument (C/B-flat), double bass ad lib.
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 582915
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 142702
Best-loved pop, jazz, film, folk and classical pieces specially
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 767598
for: Guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 672767
for: 3 saxophones (AAT)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 396797
(Theme)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723364
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722754
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 600762
for: 2 clarinets, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 599743
Fantasia on the Rondo from the Piano Sonata in A major K. 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 735656
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 593389
Jazzy Fugue for Recorder Quartet
for: Blockflötenquartett (wechselnde Besetzungen S/A/T/B)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 750629
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750571
for: Piano
Piano Duet
Item no.: 1666180
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1047330
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1210152
for: 3 clarinets
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1245722
for: Piano
Piano Duet
Item no.: 1553886
for: 4 clarinets
Sheet music
Item no.: 1286803
for: 2 melodic instruments (C/B-flat and C/B-flat/E-flat/viola), piano
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4178