 | When the Saints Go Marching In Traditional Trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano |
| Composer |  Traditional | ||
| Instrumentation | Trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano | ||
| Sheet central | When the Saints Go Marching In (81 sheet music) | ||
| Style | Jazz | ||
| Publisher | Lewis, Alastair | ||
| Copyright | Copyright © 2014 Alastair Lewis | ||
| Added by alastair-lewis, 14 Feb 2014
"When the Saints Go Marching In" is an Amercian gospel
hymn. The song is sometimes still performed as a slow
tempo spiritual, however since the middle of the 20th
century is has increasingly been popular as a "hot"
jazz number. This song is particularly associated with
the home of Jazz, New Orleans. In this city the song is
traditionally used as a funeral march at "Jazz
funerals" - the band plays the tune as a slow lamentful
dirge while accompanying the coffin to the cemetery,
this all changes a...(+)
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