What Christmas Jazz (and beyond) CD (or LP) are you listening to right now?

[Teasing the Korean]

I am spinning an expanded Jingle Bell Jazz playlist, which includes most of the original Columbia LP, the Herbie Hancock Cassavetes track that was used for the reissue, and the God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen album.  

For those who don't know, you can now get lossless downloads of the Jingle Bell Jazz tracks that were not issued on CD.

 

 

[mikeweil]

[mikeweil]

sincse Sunday:

Dora Michel & Claudia Zinserling: "Christmas Songs"

[GA Russell]

I can't find the post now, but I remember two or three years ago that TTK said that his mom sang on Perry Como's Season's Greetings album.

When I was a boy we had two Christmas albums - that one and Johnny Mathis's Merry Christmas.

So this year I remembered, and pulled out my copy of the Como album, specifically to hear TTK's mom.

She sounded great, TTK!

[Teasing the Korean]

9 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

I can't find the post now, but I remember two or three years ago that TTK said that his mom sang on Perry Como's Season's Greetings album.

When I was a boy we had two Christmas albums - that one and Johnny Mathis's Merry Christmas.

So this year I remembered, and pulled out my copy of the Como album, specifically to hear TTK's mom.

She sounded great, TTK!

Yes, she was with Perry from the late-1950s through the mid-1960s.  She is on the Christmas album from 1959 or 1960, which I believe is Season's Greetings.  A few years back, there was a PBS Christmas variety show retrospective that had a version of "Home for the Holidays," with an interlude that is not on the recording.  My mom is polishing silver in the kitchen, and she sings a few solo lines. I have not been able to find this on YouTube, but I bought the DVD from PBS.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Jeff Hamilton - Merry & Bright (Capri)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Harry Allen - Christmas in Swingtime (Koch Jazz). Unusual for Harry in that he plays these time-worn Christmas classics with an organ trio (Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein & Jake Hanna) instead of his usual Piano/Bass/Drums accompaniment. I so wish I could have made it down to NYC on Black Friday to see Harry play in trio at Mezzrow. I'll have to watch the schedules to see if he is planning that again in the future.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Charlie Byrd - The Charlie Byrd Christmas Album (Concord)

[GA Russell]

On 1/6/2024 at 9:46 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

Yes, she was with Perry from the late-1950s through the mid-1960s.  She is on the Christmas album from 1959 or 1960, which I believe is Season's Greetings.  A few years back, there was a PBS Christmas variety show retrospective that had a version of "Home for the Holidays," with an interlude that is not on the recording.  My mom is polishing silver in the kitchen, and she sings a few solo lines. I have not been able to find this on YouTube, but I bought the DVD from PBS.

And so the time has come to pull out my Christmas records.  And in honor of TTK's mom, the first is Perry Como's Season's Greetings.

TTK, is there a phrase somewhere on the album where you mom can be heard and recognized, so that the rest of us will know that it is her?

[Holy Ghost]

On 12/24/2023 at 5:38 PM, mikeweil said:

Became a staple in our Christmas listening, along with Charlie Brown's, for years. 

 

[Holy Ghost]

My family have attended Cliff Habian's holiday concerts for years.  Great guys. 

 

 

 

On 12/27/2023 at 11:19 AM, mikeweil said:

sincse Sunday:

Dora Michel & Claudia Zinserling: "Christmas Songs"

Number one. Period. Charlie Brown Christmas. Grew up to it and nearly 50 years later, hands down, still my favorite.

[Teasing the Korean]

17 hours ago, GA Russell said:

TTK, is there a phrase somewhere on the album where you mom can be heard and recognized, so that the rest of us will know that it is her?

I don't think so.  She is simply one of the contraltos on the tracks with a chorus.

I do recognize her voice on the intro to Perry's version of "My Favorite Things."  This has appeared on some Perry Holiday comps, but it is not on the Season's Greetings album.

Thanks for remembering! 

You can see and hear my Mom at the 2:40 mark ("The Tender Trap").

https://youtu.be/f0PHnBWDGtM?si=8RoV2f5chTO1LI9j

 

[JSngry]

Here's where it was released. The folks had this and I inherited it.

[Teasing the Korean]

4 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Here's where it was released. The folks had this and I inherited it.

Yes, we had this one too growing up.  Interesting that she had only one Perry (this one) and one Ray Charles Singers (Something Wonderful), even though she was on most of the records spanning the late-1950s to mid-1960s.

[mikeweil]

[EKE BBB]

Not a fan of Christmas music. However…

https://youtu.be/KIhIBFPtnoc?feature=shared

[Holy Ghost]

This is how we start Christmas: Cliff Habian and Vince Guaraldi. 

[mikeweil]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Tim Warfield – Tim Warfield's Jazzy Christmas

Great stuff.

Also, just finished Tony D'Aveni - Winter Wondrland:

[Rabshakeh]

This is my Christmas jazz. 

[Holy Ghost]

Start the morning with Run DMC then Kenny Burrell, Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas, Argo 1966.

[Chuck Nessa]

Vol 1 - 5

Farewell.

Edited December 26, 2024 by Chuck Nessa

[Quasimado]

Ella with Frank DeVol orch. from 1960, recorded in Hollywood.  Who is the vibraphonist?

[mikeweil]

[EKE BBB]

Not particularly fond of Christmas music, but this is very nice to listen to:

Ignasi Terraza / Randy Greer - Around the Christmas Tree (Swit)

Edited December 29, 2024 by EKE BBB