Track Listing

1. Jingle Bells - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
2. Deck the Halls - Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock
3. Winter Wonderland - Tony Bennett
4. Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) - Tony Bennett, Duke Ellington
5. Snowfall - Tex Beneke, , Glenn Miller Orchestra
6. Winter Weather - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
7. What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin'?) - Louis Prima
8. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Pony Poindexter
9. O Christmas Tree - Russell Malone
10. Deck Us All With Boston Charlie - Lambert, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross,
11. Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern) - Miles Davis
12. Shake Hands With Santa Claus - Louis Prima
13. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas - Art Carney
14. Christmas Song - Carmen McRae

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19090 in Music
• Released on: 1999-09-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

SWINGIN' AND SCATTIN' SANTA BABY!
More scattin' and swingin' can be found in this holiday gem, on which cool Yule music doesn't get any hotter. The Duke n "Jingle Bells." Benny and Peggy on "Winter Weather." Louie Prima on "What Will Santa Say When Finds Everybody Swinging?" Miles on "Blue Xmas." The surprise gem --- and it works, what a jewel 'tis --- Art Carney (yes, that Art Carney) on "'Twas the Night before Christmas." Ooooh Santa baby!

Swing that Christmas, like man, oh, man!
This is a fun, bouncey, swingin' Christmas CD that you'll not get tired of.

Fun tracks ("Winter Weather, "What Will Santa Claus Say?", "Shake Hands With Santa Claus"), mix freely with jazzy/loungey versions of classic standards. Russell Malone's "O Christmas Tree" has a suitable "Charlie Brown's Christmas" kind of feel. Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Louis Prima, Carmen McRae, and Tex Beneke are filling the stockings. Even Tony Bennett stops by, and his "Winter Wonderland" goes down as smooth and as warm as eggnog.

There is enough variety here to keep you swingin' right through a stormy Christmas Eve. Whether you're just pulling the sleigh like all the other reindeer, or makin' like Rudolph with a shiny nose, depends only on how many martinis you've had.

Nice jazzy collection of holiday interpretations
Let's face it: Most holiday compilations fall into one of two cataogories: 1) The same old hit warhorses in the same old versions, trotted out yet again, mixed with a bunch of junk chosen to fill out the CD and save the label on royalties; 2) Unmemorable interpretations by unknowns marketed at a budget price.

This collection is neither of those. Instead, what you get is a collection of interpretations by some of the biggest names in the history of jazz and swing. Few of these would be called definitive, but most of these are excellent in their own right. And since you probably already have enough copies of ol' Bing singing "White Christmas", this is a nice collection to add into rotation for flavor. At the price, it's a no brainer.