1. Winter Wonderland - Bernard, Felix
2. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Loesser, Frank
3. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Sears, Edmund Hamil
4. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Blane, Ralph
5. O Tannenbaum - Traditional
6. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Cahn, Sammy
7. Christmas Waltz, The - The Brecker Brothers & Steve Khan
8. The Little Drummer Boy - Davis, Katherine
9. I'll Be Home for Christmas - Gannon, Kim
10. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - Neale, John M.
11. The Christmas Blues - Holt, David [1]
12. Angels We Have Heard on High - Traditional
13. The Christmas Song - Torme, Mel
14. What Child Is This? - Dix, William Chatte
15. Winter Wonderland - Bernard, Felix
16. Il Est Né, Le Divin Enfant - Traditional
Jazz to the World
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1995-10-10)
- Publisher: Blue Note Records
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Studio: Blue Note Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 10 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #67270
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Summary: Decent Holiday CD 2005-12-13
Comment: The headliner of the CD is Dianne Reeves/Lou Rawls rendition of "Baby It's Cold Outside". The female vocalists are good, the male vocalist are subpar. It's not a festive Christmas CD, so I feel it's best played during dinner or after dinner drinks. Steps Ahead rendition of "Angels We Have Heard On High" is the best instrumental song. I would buy the CD used and play it once or twice between Christmas and New Year's. Only "Baby It's Cold Outside" can be played repeatedly. The melodic tone throughout the CD is too soothing. You'll fall asleep if you devote your undivided attention to it.
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Summary: The gals make it enjoyable. 2002-12-05
Comment: With the exception of Herbie Hancock and Eliane Elias on "I'll Be Home For Christmas", I found the instrumentals here rather disappointing and unexciting, even for smooth jazz. Especially disappointing to me was Dave Koz' "Winter Wonderland". He has a very short version of the song on his album: "Dave Koz & Friends: A Smooth Jazz Christmas". On that album, the brief taste of the song as part of "Overture" has a life of its own. That's missing here. Of course, the personell except for Bill Sharpe on bass is different, and that makes the difference. Dave just doesn't play as well with the group of this CD as he does with the group on his own.However, the Herbie Hancock cut comes out strong, and then there are the marvelous ladies here. I'll go with the crowd in lauding Dianne Reeves & Lou Rawls "Baby, It's Cold Outside". This is a tremendous rendition. But Diana Krall's soulful "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" comes across as a strong number also. Cassandra Wilson has fun with "Little Drummer Boy" and Cyro Baptista's percussion shouldn't be slighted. And Anita Baker carries "The Christmas Song" quite well. If you enjoy the female vocalists as I do, you'll like this, but for a really good smooth jazz Christmas set, give Dave Koz & Friends a try.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: mediocre jazz, mediocre xmas - buy it used 2002-11-15
Comment: As other reviewers have pointed out, the Dianne Reeves/Lou Rawls duet is stupendous, but not worth the price of the whole CD. The rest of the music is dull, easy-listening, "mellow" and hardly festive. I think I can salvage about 4 cuts off this disc (not Michael Franks, thank you), which would make it worth buying used, copying some cuts, and then donating the CD to the local library. And then give the money you save directly to the Special Olympics.
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Summary: Why hasn't Michael Franks done a Christmas album? 2002-04-06
Comment: His rendition of "Let It Snow" found here has a killer piano intro that counterbalances his (I suppose necessarily) conventional rendition of the song itself. Unfortunately, his ironic "I Bought You a Plastic Star For Your Aluminum Tree" isn't here--that's on Capitol's "Jazz Christmas Party". And I'll be damned if I can find "Island Christmas" or his pensive treatment of Guaraldi's "Christmas Time Is Here" anywhere but the peer share sites. That's 4--count 'em--songs and this dude still ain't done no Exmass album. Elsewhere on this disc, Lou Rawls and Dianne Reeves does "Baby It's Cold Outside" better than the Virtual Cole & Daughter pairing could have in a million time-warped years. All in all, this disc is a really decent Holiday collection when you consider the fact that jazz's improvisational nature can often be at odds with the fact that a Christmas song (even an instrumental) should be played as straight-ahead as possible.
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Summary: Not my favorite, but some great tracks 2001-11-26
Comment: What I liked:
Dianne Reeves and Lou Rawls seriously warm your heart and make you want to snuggle with a significant other on the track "Baby it's Cold Outside" and I immediately memorized Holly Cole's "Christmas Blues" (a perfect choice if the significant other is no where to be found). The rest of the largely instrumental CD is nice for dinner parties, but didn't particularly thrill me as a whole. Still, you absolutely must own the Dianne Reeves track to make your holiday collection complete.
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