Track Listing

1. Christmas Song - Wally Stott & His Orchestra, Mel Tormé
2. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Frank DeVol & His Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald
3. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Joe Sample
4. Secret of Christmas - Shirley Horn
5. Christmas Waltz - Joe Williams
6. Warm Fire - Yusef Lateef
7. Christmas Eve - Billy Eckstine
8. Ole Santa - Dinah Washington
9. Snowfall - Ramsey Lewis
10. Looks Like December - Antonio Carlos Jobim
11. Child Is Born - Oscar Peterson
12. I'll Be Home for Christmas - Diane Schuur
13. Wintersong - Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan
14. Christmas Cheer - Abbey Lincoln
15. Merry Christmas, Baby - Kenny Burrell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110257 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-21
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Sophisticated in its selections and often seductive in its instrumentation, Christmas for Lovers is a must-have collection of renowned classic jazz singers and instrumentalists. Most of the artists here understand that less is more, whether it's Mel Torme doing his eternal "The Christmas Song," Ella Fitzgerald asking "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?," pianist Joe Sample reinventing another time and place with the almost unrecognizable "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," or Yusef Lateef's sax-sparked "Warm Fire." Not to be outdone by the sublime instrumentals of Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Burrell, Oscar Peterson, and Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond, there are simply stellar vocal showcases by Abbey Lincoln, Joe Williams, Dinah Washington, and Shirley Horn, whose "The Secret of Christmas" puts the whole maddening holiday in perspective: "It's not the things you do at Christmastime/but the Christmas things you do all year." One of the year's tastiest and brightest. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

Christmas for Lovers
I recommend this to anyone that likes smooth jazz and wants mood music for Christmas gatherings. Would also make a great stocking stuffer for that special jazz lover...