Made with Dorico: Holiday music for Saxophones

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I wrote 4 new holiday de-rrangements for saxophones and rhythm section last week for the Holiday VandoJam, sponsored by my reed and mouthpiece manufacturer Vandoren. All written in 2 days with Dorico. I didn’t get any recordings, but a few people uploaded some videos. Here are a couple of clips if holiday music for saxes is your thing, enjoy!

Coffee (Arabian Dance) from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBg66QDdTN/

Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney

Anyway, I’ve written about 50 of these things by now and there’s finally some discussion of recording a few of them so we’ll see if any are out by Xmas 2026 …

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Terrific!
Love the big Bari sound (my favorite sax). If Tchaikovsy only knew how well coffe and jazz go together -and Paul McCartney would be gob-smacked :grinning_face:

Thanks for sharing!

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:musical_notes: This is great stuff, man! I’m letting this play as I work, really good music. (I hate that Instagram auto-pauses video if I leave the tab in my browser; fortunately, the audio link doesn’t have that problem!)

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That’s Gary Smulyan, one of the greatest Bari players on the planet! Of course, the fact that Julius was sitting right in front of him while recording skewed the balance just a little bit, LOL!

Thanks! Glad you are enjoying it!

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