Jester Joseph Hairston

Birth Year:	1901
Death Year:	2000
Notes:	American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor, and actor. He was regarded as a leading expert on African-American spirituals and choral music

Compositions:

Title	Alternate Title(s)
Mary's Boy Child	Mary's L'il Boy Child

Arrangements:

	Title	Composer(s)	Type	Arranged For	Publisher
	Band of Angels	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Score	SATB, a cappella	Warner Brothers Publications, Inc.
	Elijah Rock	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Score	SSATB	Bourne Co.
	Give Me Jesus	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Score	SATB, a capella	Bourne Co.
	Gossip, Gossip	Jones, B. Hall	Score	SATB and piano	Bourne Co.
	Hold On	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Score	SATBB, A Capella	Bourne Co.
	In Dat Great Gittin' Up Mornin	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Vocal score	SATB, T solo	Bourne Co.
	Our Troubles Was Hard	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Score	SSATB, a cappella	Bourne Co.
	Poor Man Lazrus	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Score	SATTBB, a capella	Bourne Co.
	Sakura Sakura (Song of the Cherry Blossoms)	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Score	SATB, a cappella	Bourne Co.
	Tataleo (Who'll Buy My Pancakes?)	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Score	SATB, a cappella	Bourne Co.
	What Kind O' Shoes You Gonna Wear?	Trad/Anon/composer unknown,	Vocal score	SATB, a capella (Piano for rehearsal only)	Bourne Co.