Christmas Jazz - Essential Christmas

Music has always been associated with religious ceremonies, and musicians have always expressed religious fervor with songs and incantations. In other words, with voices. Of course, the confusion that exists today between the notion of a religious feast, and on the other hand the altar of commercialism, tends to muddle the way we perceive the Nativity, but the nature and sincerity of the Christmas celebrations contained in the titles selected for this album make us completely forget all the mercantile reasons behind such things as “Christmas products.”

A1. Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song

A2. Peggy Lee - Winter Weather

A3. Louis Armstrong - Christmas in New Orleans

A4. Louis Jordan - May Every Day Be Christmas

A5. Lloyd Glenn - Sleigh Ride

A6. Glenn Miller - Jingle Bells

B1. Louis Armstrong - Christmas Night in Harlem

B2. Woody Herman - Let it Snow

B3. Nat King Cole - All I Want For Christmas

B4. Louis Armstrong - Cool Yule

B5. Doris Day - The Christmas Song

B6. Willie Lewis - Christmas Night in Harlem

C1. Louis Armstrong - Zat You Santa Claus

C2. Lionel Hampton - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus

C3. Ella Fitzgerald - Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney

C4. Woody Herman - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

C5. Louis Prima - What Will Santa Claus Say

C6. Benny Goodman - Jingle Bells

D1. Benny Goodman - Santa Claus Came in the Spring

D2. Fats Waller - Swinging Them Jingle Bells

D3. Jack Tiegarden - Christmas Night in Harlem

D4. Johnny Mercer - Winter Wonderland

D5. Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby - White Christmas

D6. Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer