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Christmas Songs
(2005)
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Diana Krall/Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra
On her first full-length Christmas album, pianist/vocalist Diana Krall delivers a smoky, sophisticated, and slightly melancholy album perfectly suited to accompany egg nog cocktails and romantic afterglow holiday affairs. Although there isn't anything unexpected on Christmas Songs -- Irving Berlin's "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" is as ...
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When My Heart Finds Christmas
(1993)
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Harry Connick, Jr.
For this Christmas jazz album, Harry Connick, Jr. emphasizes his vocals (his piano playing is quite secondary) as he sings ten familiar Christmas songs plus four of his somewhat forgettable originals while joined by a big band, a string section, and background singers. The results are reasonably pleasing, but of little interest to jazz listeners. ...
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Christmas Collection
(1998)
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The Carpenters
In 1998, A&M released the original Carpenters' albums for the first time on CD. Along with the reissues, the label released Christmas Collection, a double-disc that combines Christmas Portrait and An Old Fashioned Christmas on one set. Neither album offers any surprises -- they sound exactly like you'd imagine a Carpenters Christmas album would ...
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Merry Christmas with Love
(2004)
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Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken is a show-biz creature, so it's only appropriate that the sequel to his hit 2003 debut, Measure of a Man, is 2004's Merry Christmas with Love -- after all, there are few things quite as show biz as a holiday album. Aiken is a rarity in the new millennium: an old-fashioned, unironic middle-of-the-road singer. Those are the kinds of ...
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Cool Yule
(2006)
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Bette Midler
Well in advance of the Christmas season, Bette Midler, perhaps in her zeal to join the ranks of other artists like Bing Crosby, Elvis, and Johnny Mathis (the latter with whom she sings the duet here, "Winter Wonderland/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!") with famed holiday work, has come out with her first-ever Christmas album, Cool Yule. ...
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Christmas Memories
(2001)
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand makes a point of noting that she completed this, her second Christmas album, before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, even going so far as to list the recording dates (July 19-September 7, 2001). And listening to the disc, you can see why. If great artists sometimes demonstrate an uncanny ability to take the temperature of ...
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Give Me Your Love for Christmas
(1969)
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Johnny Mathis
A million-seller, it features the Mathis sound after he returned to Columbia Records from the Mercury label. David A. Milberg, All Music Guide
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Sound of Christmas
(1960)
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Ramsey Lewis Trio
This is a pleasing, if rather brief (29 minutes) Christmas jazz album that was originally quite popular. Reissued on a 1982 LP, the set features the Ramsey Lewis Trio (consisting of the leader/pianist, bassist Eldee Young and drummer Red Holt) on ten Christmas songs, five of which add a string section arranged by Riley Hampton. The renditions of ...
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The Best of Nancy Wilson [EMI]
(2001)
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Nancy Wilson
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The McGarrigle Christmas Hour
(2005)
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Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Seven years after the release of their 1998 album The McGarrigle Hour, Kate & Anna McGarrigle have crafted a holiday album in much the same manner, which means they've brought together members of their family (including Kate's children Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, both of whom have been enjoying successful solo careers), longtime ...
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Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues
(1963)
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Nancy Wilson
Originally released in December of 1963, Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues was the eighth in a long series of albums Nancy Wilson was to make for Capitol Records over a period of 20 years. During that time, she became one of the label's most artistically and commercially successful artists. The album was also made during the time when major ...
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The Most Fabulous Christmas Album Ever
(1999)
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Various Artists
RCA Victor's Most Fabulous Christmas Album Ever collects 21 of the label's most memorable holiday songs. From Spike Jones' "My Two Front Teeth" to Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" to Perry Como's "Home for the Holidays," the album includes many definitive versions of Christmas classics. Glenn Miller's "Jingle Bells," Kate Smith's "It's Beginning to Look ...
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A Christmas Gift of Love
(2002)
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Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow's second seasonal collection, following 1990's Because It's Christmas, was released on Columbia Records, but that label berth appears to be a one-off for the singer, who followed his long tenure at Arista by signing to the jazz independent Concord for his last album, 2001's Here at the Mayflower. Maybe Columbia offered a bigger ...
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The Very Best of Diana Krall [Deluxe Edition]
(2007)
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Diana Krall
The Very Best of Diana Krall collects a nice cross-section of tracks the pianist/vocalist recorded beginning with her 1996 breakthrough album, All for You, and moving through to her 2006 effort From This Moment On. These are largely urbane and stylish recordings that range from her intimate and swinging trio work with guitarist Russell Malone and ...
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The Osmond Christmas Album
(1976)
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The Osmonds
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Dig That Crazy Christmas
(2005)
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Brian Setzer Orchestra
As Brian Setzer's second Christmas record in three years -- apparently his Surfdog labelmate Gary Hoey has been rubbing off on him -- it should come as no great surprise that Dig That Crazy Christmas sounds a little bit familiar. It follows the same form as 2002's Boogie Woogie Christmas, as Setzer blasts through several familiar carols, tosses in ...
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No Frills
(1984)
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The Persuasions
The Persuasions celebrated their 20th anniversary with this 1986 set blending classics and more contemporary material. They covered vintage songs from The Drifters and Clyde McPhatter, included a lengthy, more modern/dance tune in Candi Station's "Victim" and added a holiday number with "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve." They brought back former ...
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Christmas All-Time Greatest Records, Vol. 2
(1991)
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Various Artists
All-Time Greatest Christmas Records, Vol. 2 contains a selection of 12 pop and pop-rock records from the '50s, '60s and '70s. It's a bit of a hodgepodge, but there are some gems on the collection that make it worth acquiring for its budget price, including Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock," Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Bing ...
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Boney's Funky Christmas
(1996)
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Boney James
Working with producer Paul Brown, Boney James' Boney's Funky Christmas is an entertaining set of loose, funky and bluesy interpretations of both classic Christmas carols ("The Christmas Song") and more obscure contemporary selections like "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas." Two selections, "This Christmas" and "What ...
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Yule B Swingin'
(1998)
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Various Artists
This package was yet another attempt to cash in on the late-'90s retro craze for "swing" music and dancing. Artists loosely working in the swing idiom are featured on a selection of the type of obligatory Christmas theme recordings that proliferated in the major label's catalogs back in the 1940s, '50s, and early '60s. Selections include the great ...
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Let's Sing a Song of Christmas
(1998)
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Spike Jones
Verve's Let's Sing a Song of Christmas is an excellent collection of Spike Jones' Christmas recordings, featuring no less than 20 tracks, including "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)," "Jingle Bells Medley," "Nuttin' for Christmas," "The Angel in the Christmas Play," "Frosty the Snowman," "Christmas Alphabet Medley" and "What Are ...
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The Season for Romance
(2002)
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Lee Ann Womack
Cardinal rule number one for introducing new holiday songs amidst a sea of newly arranged classics: Make them compelling! No doubt she hopes that listeners will slow dance to the title track of her first holiday offering, but, despite its sweet sentiment, it's one of the handful of bland tracks amidst many that are far more interesting. The most ...
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Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas Featuring Vonda Shepard
(2000)
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Vonda Shepard
On the third installment of television series Ally McBeal soundtracks, Vonda Shepard and guests -- Macy Gray and cast members Calista Flockhart, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, and Robert Downey, Jr. -- toast the Yuletide season with Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas Featuring Vonda Shepard. R&B, jazz, swing, and blues treatments are added to ...
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Les Paul
(2001)
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Les Paul
This would be more properly titled "The Best of Les Paul at Decca," as all 12 of the songs are taken from his slim body of 1944-1947 Decca recordings. That isn't to say that these aren't quality tracks that are of substantial importance to Paul's discography, only that they certainly aren't among his best or most popular, particularly as none of ...
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This Time of the Year
(2002)
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Steve Tyrell
Steve Tyrell has attracted enough attention for his two regular albums, A New Standard and Standard Time, that he is almost beyond journalists' usual tack of describing a new singer's voice by who he sounds like; pretty soon, they'll be saying that other singers sound like him. But it remains true that if you have never heard him but you are ...
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