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Frisco Newbie

Frisco

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We Free Kings definitely counts. That's one of my three. The other two:

The Creator Has a Master Plan - Pharoah Sanders version from "Karma".

Peace Piece - Bill Evans from 'Everybody Digs Bill Evans".

Somehow I can't really stomach straight jazz versions of Christmas Carols.

Ted O'Reilly Newbie

Ted O'Reilly

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Thinking of these as "jazz tunes for Christmas", or seasonally appropriate:

Claude Thornhill's "Snowfall"

Johnny Smith's "Moonlight in Vermont"

"A Child Is Born" by just about any instrumentalist who shows proper respect to the melody...

mjzee Mentor

mjzee

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This has some nice tracks on it, particularly the Dexter and the Arthur Blythe:

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God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen

Columbia also released a promo 45 with an alternate take of the Dexter track, with a cool picture sleeve of Dex in a Santa hat. I have the single, but it's marred by surface noise (bad pressing).

WorldB3 Newbie

WorldB3

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I love New Possibility the Christmas Album by John Fahey and Christmas Vol 2.

his version of Carol of the Bells is haunting.

after years of not playing it I have over the last two days been way into the Vince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas. It swings like crazy and the tune witting is fantastic. Hard to imagine a time in America when kids wanted to take piano lessons so they could learn the Linus and Lucy tune.

Happy holidays to all the Organistas!

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The Magnificent Goldberg

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I think my favourite is Plas Johnson's "Christmas in Hollywood". He includes - and is the first one as far as I know to record this since its original recording in 1946 - Tad Dameron's "A bebop carol". Could you ask for anything better?

Well, all right then, quite a few other tunes that aren't among the usual suspects are included as well. Most unhackneyed stuff. And a few great vocals by Ernie Andrews.

And, as if that isn't enough, licensing for the album was done by Gaye D Funk!!!!!

MG

Peter Friedman Grand Master

Peter Friedman

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Two tunes played by Dexter Gordon top my list of favorite individual tracks.

The Christmas Song - Prestige

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Columbia

When it comes to complete CDs, these are ones I particularly like.

An Uptown Christmas - Uptown

(Barry Harris,Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Walter Davis,Jr., Frank Wess, Al Cohn, Sahib Shihab,Carl Fontana,

Johnny Coles, Jack Sheldon,Charlie Rouse etc.)

Niels Jorgen Steen Quintet - Bebop Christmas - Storyville (Bob Rockwell on tenor sax)

Dave McKenna - Christmas Ivory - Concord Jazz

Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass - Big Band Christmas - Concord Jazz

Jim Galloway & Jay McShann - Jim & Jay's Christmas - Sackville

Big Beat Steve Experienced

Big Beat Steve

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Anthologies usually have a few bum tracks (bad vocalists or overdone sax).

Well, I am happy to report that on Xmas evening both my wife and my 8-year old son sat through the background Xmas music of the entire two sides of the "Mr Santa's Boogie" LP on Savoy SJL 1157 without even attemting to protest at all (even through Charlie Parker's "White Christmas" version - not a bum track at all, of course, but something that takes some getting used to for non-bebop jazz ears ;)).

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