Category: Classic Jazz

CLAUDIA BURSON TRIO - JOY

12/22/2014

1. The Christmas Song
2. The Christmas Waltz
3. Christmas Time is Here (waltz)
4. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
5. I'll Be Home for Christmas
6. Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
7. O Tannenbaum
8. Christmas Time is Here (samba)
9. What Child is This
10. Silent Night

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Claudia Burson grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Classically trained, her style of Jazz is Old School. Clean and elegant. She's got a Bebop soul with the sophistication of a Bill Evans. You don't find all that much good Christmas Trio Jazz and you almost never find it free. The Claudia Burson Trio's brand new release "Peace" contains a few wonderful Christmas/Winter songs. There must have been an overload because the group is making this full length Christmas album, "Joy", available for free streaming and/or download. The only downside is that there is no "full album" download that I could find--the songs have to be downloaded individually. But it's worth it. Head to Claudia's web site to listen and download "Joy" or to purchase "Peace".

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HOT CLUB OF SPOKANE - CHRISTMAS TUNES 2014

12/8/2014

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Hot Club Jazz is Jazz in the tradition of Django Reinhardt. It's generally a swinging acoustic kind of Jazz centered on guitar and violin. Among others, Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, Billy Tipton, and Jimmy Rowles all called Spokane home. Who knew that Spokane had such a long and proud Jazz history? Apparently not too many folks. At least that's what the members of the Hot Club of Spokane learned by talking to the people of the city and surrounding areas. The Hot Club's bandleader and guitarist, Garrin Hertel is also the publisher of Nostalgia Magazine, devoted to the history and culture of the local area. He believes its important that the citizens of Spokane learn of the city's prestigious Jazz history so that they might keep it alive and pass it on to future generations. And, to that end, Hot Club of Spokane is currently raising money via Kickstarter to record a CD that will feature the Jazz music written and/or made famous by Spokanians of the past (Spokanites? Spokaners?).

As a bit of a warm up, Hot Club of Spokane has dropped a few Christmas songs for all to enjoy, including the most famous Christmas song of all time made popular by the most famous Jazz singer from Spokane, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas". Of course, this group does it Hot Club style. In addition to "White Christmas", Hot Club of Spokane has provided winning covers of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "Baby Its Cold Outside", "Christmas Night In Harlem" (as "Christmas Night In Hillyard"), and "Zat You Santa Claus". All are available free through Soundcloud. If you like what you hear, be sure to support the band by helping them reach their Kickstarter goal.

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THE WOODHOUSE - HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

12/3/2014

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I love Jazz. I especially love Christmas Jazz. And I really, really love FREE Christmas Jazz. So it was awesome to come across this track from the Toronto based Jazz group The Woodhouse. The Woodhouse have been together since 2006 and they have a special fondness for holiday music. In fact, they came together as a seasonal band to play Christmas shows in Nova Scotia. After eight years, their loyal fanbase was wanting something more than their sold-out holiday shows. They wanted an album they could listen to throughout the season. Crowd funded through Kickstarter, it looks as though the hard copy CD of their debut release "Home For Christmas" will be officially released December 22 (one assumes the Kickstarter contributors will get theirs a bit earlier). But the digital version can be yours immediately for $10 Canadian (roughly 8 or 9 dollars, depending upon the conversion rate). The Woodhouse isn't re-inventing the wheel, here; it's just really superb classic little big band Jazz. "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" is the free teaser to get you interested in the full album. Worked on me. How could I resist the sweet sound of vocalist Jennah Barry? How can you? A note: the cover art, here, is linked to the full album; you can find the freebie from there easily enough. Or use the widget above.

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Here we hope to direct you to some of the Christmas music on the web that can be yours absolutely free. We will not direct you to mp3 or sharity sites, here, but only to artist sites, label sites, and other authorized and unquestionably legal locations.

CLAUDIA BURSON TRIO - JOY

HOT CLUB OF SPOKANE - CHRISTMAS TUNES 2014

THE WOODHOUSE - HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

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