Track Listing

1. Cool Yule - Kurt Elling
2. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Pat Martino
3. Jingle Bells - Dianne Reeves
4. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Eliane Elias
5. Blue X-Mas - Bob Dorough, Tim Hagans, Stefon Harris, Greg Osby, Bobby Watson
6. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Fareed Haque
7. Santa Baby - Javon Jackson
8. Be-Bop Santa Claus
9. I'd Like You for Christmas - Judi Silvano
10. Adeste Fideles/Little Drummer Boy - Jacky Terrasson
11. Zat You, Santa Claus? - Benny Green, Miles Griffith
12. Christo Redentor - Jack Walrath, Bobby Watson
13. Peach on Earth - Rachelle Ferrell
14. Christmas Time Is Here - Charlie Hunter
15. Carol of the Bells - Joe Lovano

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37427 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-23
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
For that hardened jazz boho on your list, this 15-piece slab serves up a lot of cool yule trimmings. There are goodies for baddies here, including Javon Jackson, who takes you on a drum-lead, saxophone-improv trip during "Santa Baby," exploring all the nooks and crannies of Santa's workshop. Bob Dorough reprises the cynical classic "Blue X-Mas" while Sweet Daddy Love and the Blue Note Ad Hoc Orchestra revisit that beatnik staple "Bebop Santa Claus." Other noteworthy tracks include Jacky Terrasson soulfully welding "Adeste Fideles" and "Little Drummer Boy" in a groovin' orgy of organ-chased gospel rhythms and sprite piano riffs. No hip set would be complete without "Zat You, Santa Claus?", here handled admirably by Benny Green and Miles Griffith (although no one can lay a finger on Louis Armstrong's version). Cool stuff, even for nonjazz stiffs. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

com"YULE"ation Cleric : Jive Jingle Jamboree
This cool cat Christmas from the current songsmiths at blue note records is a elaboration from a label thats been compiling since 1939.This IS a disc to leave in a mega player from first snowfall to final melt as it`s stylization adds surprisal celebration with each listen.What lounge lizard wouldn`t wish for acoustic bass, various sax,guitar, and drums with a mixture of the following thrown in here and about;bongos,viraphone,flute,tapping,bells,piano,chimes,trumpet,and vibes atop lyrical originality and rare boffo narration.~~Merrily Mix~1$1\2,2#1\2,3#,4#,5$,6$,7#,8%,9#,10#1\2,11#,12$,and 13#1\2 no bahhumbugs here~~Post Script: This is National YULEtide Treasure please tune this in and cherish it often*****SOLID*****

com"YULE"ation Cleric : Jive Jingle Jamboree
This cool cat Christmas from the current songsmiths at blue note records is a elaboration from a label thats been compiling since 1939.This IS a disc to leave in a mega player from first snowfall to final melt as it`s stylization adds surprisal celebration with each listen.What lounge lizard wouldn`t wish for acoustic bass, various sax,guitar, and drums with a mixture of the following thrown in here and about;bongos,viraphone,flute,tapping,bells,piano,chimes,trumpet,and vibes atop lyrical originality and rare boffo narration.~~Merrily Mix~ no bahhumbugs here~~Post Script: This is National YULEtide Treasure please tune this in and cherish it often*****SOLID*****

A good jazzy christmas with a few skippers
What recommends this compilation most are two terrific vocals of two rarely heard, unusal christmas songs: Steve Allen's "Cool Yule" and Jack Fox's "Zat You Santy Claus?" (the only scary Christmas song!). Also a mean jazz guitar arrangement of "Youre a Mean One Mr. Grinch."

So this cd gets points for interesting selections. Unfortunately, there are a couple of skippers, most notably, Judi Silvano's syrupy, broadway-singing-style, campy version of the admittedly cloying song, "I'd Like You For Christmas."

But if you you like your Christmas jazzy, this is fun for the rotation.