White Christmas by Bing Crosby Jazz Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

Newly edited & corrected from my original score:

Newly edited & corrected from my original score:Score & Parts Formatted 8.5 X 11White ChristmasIrving Berlin Arr. John La BarberAs Recorded By the Glenn Miller Orchestra on the"In The Christmas Mood" RecordingsFor those of you who are unfamiliar with the Glenn Miller Orchestra (GMO) sound, I’d like to give a brief description of it from an arranging point of view.Basically, the sound or orchestration most identified with the GMO is the melody played by a clarinet and harmonized with 2 alto saxes and 2 tenor saxes. The standard instrumentation of a jazz big band sax section is generally 2 altos, 2 tenors and a baritone sax.Most professional big band sax section instrumentation is augmented with each player doubling (playing a different instrument) on other woodwind instrumentsi.e. clarinet, flute, oboe, bass clarinet and more.Glenn’s sound required such doubling in that the 1st alto sax player switched to clarinet and the baritone sax player switched to alto sax to accommodate “the sound” instrumentation. You’ll see in the score how this affects the “score order” when the sound was used in an arrangement.Reed 1 (or alto 1) is the normal alto sax but switching to clarinetReed 2 is the normal alto saxReed 3 is the normal tenor 1Reed 4 is the normal tenor 2Reed 5 is the baritone switching to alto sax.In this arrangement you can see different doublings in the introduction then settling on the above instrumentation at measure 7.Please keep in mind that this sound was not used all the time but generally in medium & slow tempo songs, depending on the arranger. The rest of the time, standard sax instrumentation was used.Bill Finnegan is my favorite arranger who contributed countless scores to the GMO and I’ve tried to emulate him in this adaptation. This arrangement swings no matter what the tempo and is a real crowd pleaser from concert to contest.Additional Scores formatted 11 X 17 & 8.5 X 14 Are Availabe In A Separate Category (Ensemble: Score Only (reference score without parts for Orchestra, Band, Ensemble)