In the 12 years () that this site has been around, I’ve found plenty of different ways to share Christmas music with you; downloads, Mixlr, Mixcloud, etc. The technologies of music delivery keep changing and I want to take advantage of the best way(s) to share great classic Christmas music …
Sing A Christmas Carol My love for Leslie Bricusse’s 1970 musical “Scrooge”, starring Albert Finney, runs deep. I read Dickens’ original “A Christmas Carol” every year. It is not only one of my favorite Christmas books, it is one of my favorite books period. The story of Scrooge’s redemption is …
One of my hobbies besides collecting old Christmas music is doing jigsaw puzzles. (I know, a pretty radical guy, right….) So my wife and I were out shopping with the girls and found this jigsaw puzzle. Could anything BE more FaLaLaLaLa than this? I grant that it cannot. Look at …
Joseph Alessi, Mark H. Lawrence, Carle Lenthe, M. Dee Stewart Trombones Under the Tree Summit Records – 1991 I’m not sure how or when I discovered this gem of an album, but each time it comes up in my Christmas playlist it gets my attention. It’s just a really great …
Ghost of Christmas Jazz Past I imagine there’s something just a bit intimidating about recording a Christmas album with a jazz piano trio these days. There must be this feeling of Vince Guaraldi hovering over your shoulder like a Ghost of Christmas Jazz Past. I am glad, however, that Rick …
Giddy-up b/w A Christmas Dream The Dumbells EG Records (1980) Side One: 01 Giddy-up (Inc. “Sleigh Rides”) (2:50) (L. Anderson arr. Dumbells) Side Two: 02 A Christmas Dream (3:20) (Dumbells) About While it is hard to pin down exactly who specifically is …
