Month: December 2012

Few jazz recordings have been listened to as often as the classic Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack performed by Vince Guaraldi and his trio of either Fred Marshall/b and Jerry Granelli/dr or Monty Budwig/b and Colin Bailey/dr. Like Lucy and the…

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Uh, can you say “THE SEVENTIES”? Is anyone able to have a mellower Christmas than James Taylor? Yes, he does Beta Dog versions of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Silent Night.” As you’d expect, he gets a bit…

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If you’re talking “old school” entertainment, it’s hard to beat this collection of Christmas songs. All of them are from the early days of TV, around 1952, and the show, Kovacs  Unlimited, featured one of the true avant garde artists…

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For his Christmas album, trumpeter/vocalist Rick Braun veers more towards the Santa Claus more than the Bethlehem side of life. He shows his hand on this cheerful collection of material by singing the lyrics with his rich voice on “I’ve…

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Here are a couple releases from Justin Time Records that deliver the goods for getting you into the mood for the Reason for the Season: Have Yourself is a cornucopia of Christmas Season classics in a mixture of instrumentals and…

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There are just SO many anonymous sounding Christmas releases that come out this time of year, and yet you want SOMETHING that’s fresh sounding, somewhere in between the gazillionth version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and  barking dogs, quacking ducks…

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