Jazz Advent Calender
The Modern Jazz Quartet - Variation No. 1. on 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen' (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM6LyEu7kgY
Saturday 12th December 2020Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here (1965)
This tune was composed by the American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976) for the 1965 television animation "A Charlie Brown Christmas but has since become a popular Christmas jazz standard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvI_FNrczzQ
Sunday 13th December 2020Ella Fitzgerald - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE9asL7_874
Monday 14th December 2020Roland Kirk: ‘We Free Kings' (1961), a version of the Christmas carol "We Three Kings".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0mSclnUQQ
Tuesday 15th December 2020Bill Evans - Santa Claus is Coming to Town (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohFNLF_8Dik
Wednesday 16th December 2020Dexter Gordon - The Christmas Song (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MftJOPpQiE
Thursday 17th December 2020Bob Dorough (vocals) with Miles Davis Sextet – ‘Blue Xmas …To Whom It May Concern)' (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqZ1O0YhY5Q
Friday 18th December 2020Spyro Gyra - Carol of the Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtiD_Z7Gcxc
Saturday 19th December 2020Dianne Reeves - Let It Snow (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sH5LujkSk
Sunday 20th December 2020Louie Bellson - Little Drummer Boy (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3UMJtDxauo
Monday 21st December 2020Wynton Marsalis - Jingle Bells (2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjXfg3hRe-w
Tuesday 22nd December 2020Diana Krall – Winter Wonderland (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swRS2nSsuI0
Wednesday 23rd December 2020The Count Basie Orchestra (without Count Basie): Sleigh Ride (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AmYQ00qndA
Thursday 24th December 2020Tony Glausi and his band - ‘O Tannenbaum' (2017)
Solos: Tony Glausi – trumpet, Matt Hettwer – trombone, Lee Burlingame - alto sax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6aSg0VAQCo
If you enjoyed this track from the ‘Christmas with Tony Glausi' album, you might want to view this video of the Tony Glausi band playing three Christmas tunes live in a studio:
Tony Glausi A Christmas Jazz Medley: ‘O Tannenbaum', ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas', and ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTQ92TzWPOM
Tony Glausi - trumpet
Joshua Hettwer - tenor sax & clarinet
Lee Burlingame - alto sax
Matt Hettwer - trombone
Leo Bae - piano
Jack Radsliff - guitar
Garrett Baxter - bass
Ken Mastrogiovanni - drums
Friday 25th December 2020Mel Torme - The Christmas Song (1944)