medjuck Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 Anyone got any? Does "We Free Kings" count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frisco Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 We Free Kings definitely counts. That's one of my three. The other two: The Creator Has a Master Plan - Pharoah Sanders version from "Karma". Peace Piece - Bill Evans from 'Everybody Digs Bill Evans". Somehow I can't really stomach straight jazz versions of Christmas Carols. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 Thinking of these as "jazz tunes for Christmas", or seasonally appropriate: Claude Thornhill's "Snowfall" Johnny Smith's "Moonlight in Vermont" "A Child Is Born" by just about any instrumentalist who shows proper respect to the melody... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Pomea Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 (edited) Christ was born on Christmas morn -- Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers with Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon and Punch Miller. Edited December 24, 2008 by It Should be You Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 MJQ: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 I assume that Lionel Hampton's "Gin for Christmas" doesn't count, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 I'll stick with A Dave Brubeck Christmas, it hasn't worn out its welcome. Anthologies usually have a few bum tracks (bad vocalists or overdone sax). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 This has some nice tracks on it, particularly the Dexter and the Arthur Blythe: God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen Columbia also released a promo 45 with an alternate take of the Dexter track, with a cool picture sleeve of Dex in a Santa hat. I have the single, but it's marred by surface noise (bad pressing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldB3 Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 I love New Possibility the Christmas Album by John Fahey and Christmas Vol 2. his version of Carol of the Bells is haunting. after years of not playing it I have over the last two days been way into the Vince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas. It swings like crazy and the tune witting is fantastic. Hard to imagine a time in America when kids wanted to take piano lessons so they could learn the Linus and Lucy tune. Happy holidays to all the Organistas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 I think my favourite is Plas Johnson's "Christmas in Hollywood". He includes - and is the first one as far as I know to record this since its original recording in 1946 - Tad Dameron's "A bebop carol". Could you ask for anything better? Well, all right then, quite a few other tunes that aren't among the usual suspects are included as well. Most unhackneyed stuff. And a few great vocals by Ernie Andrews. And, as if that isn't enough, licensing for the album was done by Gaye D Funk!!!!! MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 Two tunes played by Dexter Gordon top my list of favorite individual tracks. The Christmas Song - Prestige Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Columbia When it comes to complete CDs, these are ones I particularly like. An Uptown Christmas - Uptown (Barry Harris,Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Walter Davis,Jr., Frank Wess, Al Cohn, Sahib Shihab,Carl Fontana, Johnny Coles, Jack Sheldon,Charlie Rouse etc.) Niels Jorgen Steen Quintet - Bebop Christmas - Storyville (Bob Rockwell on tenor sax) Dave McKenna - Christmas Ivory - Concord Jazz Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass - Big Band Christmas - Concord Jazz Jim Galloway & Jay McShann - Jim & Jay's Christmas - Sackville Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 DUKE PEARSON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHill Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 Miles Davis Quintet w/ Bob Dorough-Blue Christmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 oscar peterson flame away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 (edited) Anthologies usually have a few bum tracks (bad vocalists or overdone sax). Well, I am happy to report that on Xmas evening both my wife and my 8-year old son sat through the background Xmas music of the entire two sides of the "Mr Santa's Boogie" LP on Savoy SJL 1157 without even attemting to protest at all (even through Charlie Parker's "White Christmas" version - not a bum track at all, of course, but something that takes some getting used to for non-bebop jazz ears ). Edited December 26, 2008 by Big Beat Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 Miles and Bob Dorough.... Bah - humbug ! (incidentally - Miles was on the TV yesterday in the street band for 'Scrooged'. Ha !) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 I'm just now getting around to listening to the Organissimo Christmas tunes. Blimey! This is simply the best Christmas collection I've come across! Wow!!!! Thanks to all three of you!!! MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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