Martha Stewart Living: Jazz For the Holidays...`

[Hardbopjazz]

Stick to what you know best, and that is being a bitch. Would you buy a jazz record she puts her name on?

I wonder if she really knows anything about the artists that are on this CD?

Edited August 6, 2006 by Hardbopjazz

[Free For All]

Here's what's on it:

1. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Chris Botti

2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Tony Bennett

3. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Tuck Andress

4. 'Twas The Night Before Christmas - Wynton Marsalis

5. Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy) - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

6. O Come All Ye Faithful - Terence Blanchard Listen Listen Listen

7. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - Grover Washington, Jr.

8. I'll Be Home For Christmas - Steve Tyrell

9. Snowfall - Tex Beneke

10. Deck The Halls - Chick Corea

11. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Dexter Gordon Quartet

12. O Christmas Tree - Russell Malone

13. Winter Weather - Peggy Lee

14. Shake Hands With Santa Claus - Louis Prima

15. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt

16. Winter Wonderland - Louis Armstrong

[Hardbopjazz]

Every jazz Christmas CD always seem to have Dexter Gordon's version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas". It is a great version of that tune.

[tonym]

Awww..come on guys.....you'd buy it just for the cover.....

(hang on where's that :vomit: smiley?)

[sidewinder]

What, no Miles Davis 'Blue Xmas' to lead things off and put everyone in a happy, charitable frame of mind?

Edited August 6, 2006 by sidewinder

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

dont rag on martha- you all know you would all love to be her special guest on her show

[sidewinder]

Not me, and we can't receive her show in the UK.

[fasstrack]

dont rag on martha- you all know you would all love to be her special guest on her show

Thank you. I'd take the gig in a heartbeat. Er, Martha......I play the guitar. BIG fan....

[Ed S]

Anyone remember the SNL Martha Stewart's Home for the Holidays topless Christmas Special?

[Hardbopjazz]

Not me, and we can't receive her show in the UK.

Can I assume all of you across the pond know about Martha Stewart and why we here in the US make fun of her?

[JSngry]

9. Snowfall - Tex Beneke

WTF?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[J.A.W.]

Not me, and we can't receive her show in the UK.

Can I assume all of you across the pond know about Martha Stewart and why we here in the US make fun of her?

Maybe not all of us, but some of us do know about Ms Stewart.

[bertrand]

The SNL skit was GREAT.

Bertrand.

[Ron S]

You guys are missing the whole point here. It's not what's ON the CD that matters, but rather how neatly and tastefully it's gift-wrapped. See the cover--DUH!

[J.A.W.]

You guys are missing the whole point here. It's not what's ON the CD that matters, but rather how neatly and tastefully it's gift-wrapped. See the cover--DUH!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

you guys have to stop the witch-hunt. martha is cool. how many of you wish you had wifes that could cook like martha. and dont believe for a new york minute that just cause shes all nice and mellow, that she cant be an animal in the bed because trust me she can get out of control just like anyone else. i rarely get a chance to view her show but when ive seen it it is the funnest show on television. you chill w/ martha and she makes all this whaky food. now dont get me wrong if i had to compare martha-living as a cooking show, compared to say giada, which i also rarely get a chance to see, giada wins hands down face out of the water

[JSngry]

Yup, that Beneke shows up now and then on Xmas comps.

Is it the Thornhill tune? If so, why not use that instead?

[JSngry]

I want a program called

Chewy's World.

Dude, you got it right here right now.

Carpe diem!

[JSngry]

and dont believe for a new york minute that just cause shes all nice and mellow, that she cant be an animal in the bed because trust me she can get out of control just like anyone else...compared to say giada, which i also rarely get a chance to see, giada wins hands down face out of the water

Well yeah, but I'd throw both of 'em out the second that Rachael Ray walked into the room.

Now, if you can handle so-called "big women", I personally think that Ina Gartner might be the biggest freak of 'em all.

Just a hunch...

[Dan Gould]

All I can say is that I pray to God that neither of my brothers gets wind of this, or I am the guaranteed recipient of the gag Christmas gift to end all gag Christmas gifts.

(I know that some of those tunes aren't bad ... but in this case the only way to judge this gift is by the cover.)

[Big Wheel]

The SNL skit was GREAT.

Bertrand.

Don't forget the great chapter from Jon Stewart's first book, Naked Pictures of Famous People. Chapter title: "Martha Stewart's Vagina."

[Free For All]

Hey, I'm a big fan of the Thornhill band, and the main reason is the chance to hear some of Gil's early work. His arrangements of the Bird tunes (Anthropology, Donna Lee and Yardbird Suite) show a remarkable assimilation of the bebop language, right on the heels of the debut of these tunes. Most importantly, they bear the stamp of Gil's own personality. Kind of like hearing Thad's Basie charts before Thad started his own band.

Buster's Last Stand, There's A Small Hotel, Arab Dance, La Poloma, The Song Is You and others. All great stuff. Very "visionary" IMHO.

I did a slightly skewed version of Snowfall on my CD. My dad requested that I include that tune. I then kind of screwed with it a bit (harmony, meter; as arrangers are wont to do ), and when I played it for him he was a bit perplexed. But he eventually warmed to it.

The fact that this post came about on a thread about Martha Stewart is a bit embarrassing.

[JSngry]

It's a great tune (have you heard Bobby Hutcherson's Jamal-icized/Poinciana-cized version?) and I too love that band (even a lot of the non-Gil charts got a thing going that's pretty damn cool).

But Tex Freakin' Beneke?

That's just wrong...

[Jim Alfredson]

I want a program called

Chewy's World.

I don't.

[BruceH]

Would you buy a jazz record she puts her name on?

That's a "no."