ejazzlines Holiday News

The Very Best Selection of Music for Your Holiday Concert! In the Christmas Mood with the Glenn Miller Orchestra ------------------------------------------------------------- Bing, Ella, Nat, and Frank's Vintage Holiday Favorites ------------------------------------------------------------- Big Band Holidays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra ------------------------------------------------------------- Nat 'King' Cole's The Christmas Song & More Timeless Favorites ------------------------------------------------------------- Over 250 Holiday Charts in PDF Download Format ------------------------------------------------------------- PDF Downloadable Holiday Music: We now have over 250 choices for instantly downloadable PDF holiday charts-classics & new originals, vocal & instrumental, various group sizes/styles/difficulty levels, specially-priced themed sets, & so much more. Perfect for flexibility & last-minute needs! Please click here to view them all. Nutcracker Suite Options: Our Glenn Miller Orchestra project now includes their own version of The Nutcracker, arranged by Dave Wolpe. We also proudly present the Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn version, a very challenging & highly rewarding take by two of America's greatest musical minds. We also have the Les Brown version, also original & challenging. Shorty Rogers arranged his own take on this to feature himself on trumpet, The Swingin' Nutcracker. Bing, Ella, Nat, & Frank's Vintage Holiday Favorites: The most beloved holiday songs certainly include Nat 'King' Cole's version of The Christmas Song, which we proudly publish. Ella Fitzgerald chimes in with her version of I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm which we published in August. We also have 20 of the charts from her highly regarded Christmas albums, Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas & Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas-please click here to view all of these. Few voices are more associated with the holiday season than the silky smooth baritone of Bing Crosby. We heartily recommend his famous recordings with the Andrews Sisters, Mele Kalikimaka & Jingle Bells. Two of his all-time favorites are It's Beginning to Look (a Lot) Like Christmas & I'll Be Home for Christmas. Ol' Blue Eyes is not to be forgotten with his wonderful versions of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Let It Snow!, and several others. Please click here to view everything in this category. Specially-Priced Multi-Chart Holiday Sets: These discounted sets are instant holiday concerts. These make it very easy to program & save some money at the same time. We have our brand new set of arrangements of tunes from the Glenn Miller Orchestra, as well as sets of holiday tunes from Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Rich DeRosa, Stan Kenton, Tom Kubis, Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, as well as the Happy Holidays Nine Vocal Arrangement Set. Holiday Medleys: New from the Glenn Miller Orchestra: Yuletide Medley 1 and Yuletide Medley 2s from each of their In the Christmas Mood records, Ella Fitzgerald We Three Kings/O Little Town of Bethlehem, Stan Kenton Christmas Medley, Rob McConnell O Little Town of Bethlehem/Joy to the World & Silent Night/It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Linda Eder Here Comes Santa Claus/Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Paul Murtha A Charlie Brown Christmas, & Carl Strommen Big Band Holiday & Big Band Christmas II. Hanukkah Music: Rick Hirsch Chanukah Joy & Oh Chanukah, Darin Kamstra Dreidel Samba, & Mark Thome Hanukkah Medley. Selected Big Band Arrangements of Top Beloved Holiday Classics: Nat King Cole The Christmas Song Frank Sinatra Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Ella Fitzgerald I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm and Jingle Bells   Bing Crosby I'll Be Home for Christmas and It's Beginning to Look (a Lot) Like Christmas Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters Mele Kalikimaka Johnny Mercer & Margaret Whiting Baby It's Cold Outside Eartha Kitt Santa Baby Diana Krall/John Clayton Jingle Bells Noteworthy Others: We also would like to suggest some others which we highly recommend: John La Barbera In the Christmas Mood Rick Hirsch Rudolph's Mambo Matt Catingub 12 Days of Christmas Sherman Irby Cool Yule Gordon Goodwin Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Victor Goines 'Zat You, Santa Claus? Kay Starr (Everybody's Waitin' for) the Man with The Bag Rob McConnell Christmas Waltz Rich DeRosa Angels We Have Heard on High Mark Thome Tijuana Jingle Bells Wynton Marsalis's Crescent City Christmas Card Combo Charts (Available as a set or individually) Click Here for All Holiday Charts Click Here for PDF Downloadable Holiday Charts Click Here for Specially-Priced Multi-Chart Holiday Sets Presenting Our Full Catalog of Holiday Charts from the Glenn Miller Orchestra Great Arrangements by Dave Wolpe & John La Barbera We recently published more Glenn Miller Orchestra holiday arrangements from their three  albums. We also have their version of the Nutcracker with all the individual movements also available separately. The newest ones available are Let it Snow! Let it Snow, Let it Snow!, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Winter Wonderland, and Frosty the Snowman. We also updated our specially-priced nine arrangement set to reflect the new publications.  Click Here for Glenn Miller Orchestra Holiday Charts   Jazz at Lincoln Center's Big Band Holidays Arrangements We're pleased to present a brand new trio from these albums: Silent Night from Victor Goines & from Sherman Irby Merry Christmas, Baby & Snowfall. We also have Cool Yule as arranged by Sherman, A Cradle in Bethlehem by Chris Crenshaw, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Wynton Marsalis,  Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow by Ted Nash, What Child is This by Vincent Gardner, Zat You, Santa Claus? by Victor Goines, & arrangements of We Three Kings by both Ted Nash & Carlos Henriquez. These are all available individually in paper or PDF form, as well as in a discounted complete set of all ten, which makes a fantastic set of holiday classics that both honors tradition & puts a new twist on things from some of the most creative jazz minds of our time. Click Here for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra's Big Band Holidays Charts -Doug DuBoff. He can be reached at dougduboff@ejazzlines.com. Comments & reactions encouraged & appreciated. www.ejazzlines.com        dougduboff@ejazzlines.com

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