Next week is my annual Turntable For One Christmas party. And, of course, everyone is invited…well maybe not the person who put hardboiled eggs in the eggnog (as if anything could make eggnog more palatable) and the person who made a wish and blew out all the candles on my menorah. (That’s not how it works!) But I realized that I can’t possibly squeeze all of my favorite holiday music into two hours next week. So I got a head start this week.
SONG TITLE / Artist / Album Title
- CHRISTMAS IS / Holly Cole / “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
- HAPPY HOLIDAYS / Anais Reno / “Happy Holiday”
- CHRISTMAS WALTZ / Gregory Porter / “Christmas Wish”
- SNOWFALL / The Manhattan Transfer / “The Christmas Album”
- COZY YOU / aron! & Hohnen Ford / “A Cozy Christmas”
- MAY EV’RY DAY BE CHRISTMAS / Irma Thomas w/ The Preservation Hall Jazz Band / “Holidays Rule”
- THE CHRISTMAS SONG / Paul McCartney / “Holiday Rules”
- CHRISTMAS MAGIC / Laufey / “A Very Laufey Holiday”
- GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN / Jimmy Smith / “Have Yourself A Jazzy Little Christmas”
- SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN / Olivia Chindamo / “Swinging In The Holidays”
- THE JOLLY FAT MAN / Jamie Cullum / “The Pianoman At Christmas”
- REINDEER IN RHYTHM / Solitaire Miles w Susie Blue & The Lonesome Fellas / “Cool Yule With Susie Blue”
- MY FAVORITE THINGS / Al Jarreau & Kathleen Battle / “Tenderness”
- I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM / Ashley Pezzotti / “I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm”
- CHRISTMAS WILL REALLY BE CHRISTMAS / Kristin Korb / “That Time Of Year”
- I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS / Take 6 / “The Most Wonderful time Of Year”
- GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN / John Paul McGee Trio / “A Gospel Jassical Christmas”
- A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT / Chaise Lounge / “Out Under The Sky”
- HAPPY HANUKAH, MY FRIEND / Night Is Alive Band / “Christmas Ain’t Like It used To Be”
- THE SECRET OF CHRISTMAS / Susannah McCorkle / “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow”
- YOU’RE A LITTLE LIKE SNOW / Caity Gyorgy / “You’re A Little Like Snow”
- SKATING / The Commercialists / “A Charlie Brown Christmas:Live At The Jazz Estate”
- HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS / Kenny Rankin / “A Christmas Album”
- THE CHRISTMAS SONG / Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole / “The Christmas Song”
- A CHILD IS BORN / Carmen McRae / “Can’t Hide Love”
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE / Carol Sloane / “A Concord jazz Christmas”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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