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Tag Archives: Winter Holiday music
Donal Hinely’s Midwinter Carols: Fourteen Selections on Glass Harmonica
Every passing year brings more and more Christmas and holiday music to music racks across the country. New recordings, reissues, compilations are on shelves from the local indy music store to the biggest of the big box outlets — there’s … Continue reading
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Tommy Sands’ To Shorten The Winter
No’am Newman wrote this review. This album is subtitled “An Irish Christmas with Tommy Sands,” and most of the disc’s 13 songs revolve vaguely around the Christmas theme of peace and joy, etc. In the case of some of the … Continue reading
Caroline Peyton’s Celtic Christmas Spirit
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. This is quite possibly the one of the most impressive Christmas CDs I have ever run across. It is most certainly not what I had expected. I’d figured another run-of-the-mill Celtic Christmas experience; there … Continue reading
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Trygve Seim and Andreas Utnem’s Christmas Songs
If you’re up for a new jazz-inflected holiday album, Trygve Seim and Andreas Utnem’s Christmas Songs might just do the trick. Especially if you look fondly upon George Winston’s breakthrough album December. Not that it’s very much like that multi-platinum … Continue reading
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Robin Bullock, Al Petteway and Amy White’s A Midnight Clear
For an album subtitled ‘A Celtic Christmas’ it’s ironic that I am writing this review at Summer Solstice, 21st June. I don’t think I had realised before researching this album how different Christmas is on the two sides of the … Continue reading
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Frode Haltli Avant Folk’s St. Morten
Everything new is old again for the holiday season of 2020. Everyone in the English speaking world knows the song “The Twelve Days Of Christmas,” right? Well, Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli and his Avant Folk ensemble have a treat for … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Joyeux Noël, Bon Chrismeusse: A Holiday EP From South Louisiana
As someone who’s not a fan of much Christmas music, I have to say this Christmas record is just about perfect. How’s that? Well, it’s short, so it doesn’t wear out its welcome. It’s music from south Louisiana, Cajun and … Continue reading
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s Big Band Holidays II
For more than a decade the Big Band Holidays concerts have been a New York City holiday tradition for jazz lovers and families. Every December the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and an all-star roster of guest … Continue reading
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Smithfield Fair’s The Winter Kirk
Smithfield Fair’s never been a band that over-produces its work. Sure, they go in for clever arrangements now and again, but for the most part their previous discs have featured an honest, workmanlike approach to the music. On The Winter … Continue reading
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Jethro Tull’s Merry Christmas from Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull
In the winter of 2003 Jethro Tull issued their first full-fledged Christmas album. It was called, creatively enough, The Jethro Tull Christmas Album and it featured Tullish renditions of some classic carols, along with a selection of songs written by … Continue reading
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