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Many of the spirituals composed by the black slaves who worked on plantations before and during the American Civil War are well know and influential in America's pop music. When the Saints Go Marchin' In has its roots in the traditions of the spiritual : but in the 20th century it has been taken up by all sorts of ensembles - from Dixieland jazz groups and orchestras of the big-band days, to rock bands.

This adaptation for wind band presents the tune in an elaborate, (but of course entirely jazzy), set of orchestral variations.