your favorite alltime christmas album

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[John Tapscott]

Dave McKenna - Christmas Ivory (Concord)

[AndrewHill]

A Charlie Brown Christmas. Not to many albums get me in the mood for the holidays like this one.

[Edward]

A Charlie Brown Christmas. Not to many albums get me in the mood for the holidays like this one.

I am in complete agreement.

[Big Al]

Percy Faith's CHRISTMAS IS...

[Free For All]

[JSngry]

I got no choice, I've heard this literally every Christmas of my life, and it ain't been bad yet.

Bing even drops a little jazz phrasing in on Silent Night. Guess he just couldn't help himself.

[sidewinder]

None of 'em !

[mikeweil]

A Charlie Brown Christmas. Not too many albums get me in the mood for the holidays like this one.

Since Cal Tjader didn't record no Xmas album, Vince Guaraldi's will always be my favourite

Edited December 21, 2007 by mikeweil

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Rev Cleophus Robinson - Christmas Carols and good gospel - Peacock

Side 1 is carols; side 2 is everyday Gospel, including a great verson of "Why am I treated so bad". I like the conjunction of the two.

MG

[WD45]

[Big Al]

Good choice!

[paul secor]

The Roches: We Three Kings

The Roches started out singing Christmas songs, and I always enjoy listening to this record.

My favorite off the wall - well, maybe not all that off the wall, depending on where you're coming from - Christmas song is Robert Earl Keene's "Merry Christmas from the Family" off his Gringo Honeymoon album.

Plus my friend Decibel Dennis sends me a Christmas compilation CD every year with (mostly) stuff I've never heard before, and with a lot of stuff probably hardly anyone has heard before. And that's always a treat to listen to.

[Hot Ptah]

This is mostly traditional carols sung by a choir. The song "Christmas Tree" though is one of the strangest things ever committed to vinyl. People either laugh in disbelief at that song, or run screaming into the night when it is playing (without bothering to put on their winter coats first).

This album has only been released on CD this year.

Walter Schumann also wrote the famous theme to "Dragnet".

Edited December 21, 2007 by Hot Ptah

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The Roches: We Three Kings

The Roches started out singing Christmas songs, and I always enjoy listening to this record.

My favorite off the wall - well, maybe not all that off the wall, depending on where you're coming from - Christmas song is Robert Earl Keene's "Merry Christmas from the Family" off his Gringo Honeymoon album.

Plus my friend Decibel Dennis sends me a Christmas compilation CD every year with (mostly) stuff I've never heard before, and with a lot of stuff probably hardly anyone has heard before. And that's always a treat to listen to.

Decibel Dennis must be a great guy!

MG

[marcello]

^{The Christmas Concert}

^{Tommy Smith Quartet}

Tommy Smith - tenor saxophone

Gareth Williams - piano

Orlando Le Fleming - bass

Sebastiaan De Krom - drums

[Hot Ptah]

We have a lot of Christmas albums in various genres at my house. Only a few of them are easily listenable all the way through.

These listenable ones include:

God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen (1981, Columbia, with Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Arthur Blythe, Heath Brothers, Paquito D'Rivera, Wynton and Branford Marsalis)

Marcus Roberts--Prayer for Peace (one of the few Roberts albums I genuinely like)

Charlie Byrd's Christmas Album (on Concord)

Emmylou Harris--Light of the Stable

Willie Nelson--Pretty Paper (this one veers toward easy listening, but it can be digested without feeling compelled to take the CD out of the player, unlike many holiday albums)

The Oscar Peterson Christmas Album (I'm not a huge OP fan, but this one is really pretty good)

Nat King Cole--The Christmas Song

Ella Fitzgerald Wishes You a Swinging Christmas

[DukeCity]

Two favorites of mine:

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[GA Russell]

For many years it was Vince Guaraldi for me, but then I got tired of it, so it became Charles Brown's King album. But I have gotten a little tired of that one too.

I've bought quite a number of Christmas albums over the years, and this year I don't think there is any I have played more than twice; but there's still time!

So this year I'll vote for The Kingston Trio.