Christmas jazz albums come and go with each end-of-year holiday season. And while they may make for good soundtracks to that holiday spirit, rarely do they stand up as much more than that, and certainly not as anything approaching a serious listen. While the material here may be rendered in the familiar Christmas spirit of good cheer (check out Wynton Marsalis on the back cover with mismatched green and red socks decking out his white suit), and the songs are in the familiar Christian tradition of the holiday, the arrangements are fresh and are delivered with memorable turns on "Silent Night" by opera diva Kathleen Battle, and on "Sleigh Ride" by Jon Hendricks. The playing is spirited and the material is dealt with in a manner suggesting great care in both delivery and arrangement. --Willard Jenkins
Crescent City Christmas Card,Wynton Marsalis,Sony,Christmas,Christmas / Chanukkah,Christmas Music,Holiday,New Orleans Jazz,Pop,Xmas Vocal
Jazz Music:
- Cross Section: Saxes [Import] [Original recording remastered]
- Denarris - Songs From The Heart Part 1
- Dig These Blues/After Hours
- Easy to Love
- Echoes from the Cocoanut Grove
- "Far Cry" Live at Studio M [Live]
- Father
- Filmworks 1
- Free Jazz (A Collective Improvisation)
- Glenn Miller [Import]
Jazz Music
Miniatures 2: A Sequence of Sixty Tiny Masterpieces Edited by Morgan Fisher
Norwegian Brass Band Championship: 2000 Highlights
Music: What Now My Love [Import]
Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) [Import]
Machine Gun [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Ladies & Gentleman of the Opposition [Import]
Mama Wailer [Original recording remastered] [Import]