Jazz Great Wynton Marsalis Returns With First Holiday CD In Two Decades
Trumpeter and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis is now offering Christmas Jazz Jam, his first holiday album in 20 years. Marsalis partnered with Target to exclusively release the CD in stores nationwide.
The Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer is joined by his septet for his 78th recording. Rooted in the spirit of New Orleans, these new arrangements of holiday standards are injected with down-home soul and swing. Marsalis’s trumpet is joined by Don Vappie on banjo and guitar; Wycliffe Gordon on trombone and tuba; Vincent Gardner on trombone; Victor Goines, Wessell Anderson, Walter Blanding and Paul Nedzela on reed instruments; and a rhythm section comprised of Dan Nimmer, Herlin Riley and Reginald Veal with the vocals of Roberta Gumbel joining the band on “Mary Had a Baby” and “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”
Christmas Jazz Jam
1. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
2. Mary Had a Baby
3. Jingle Bells
4. Blue Christmas
5. Go Tell It On the Mountain
6. O Christmas Tree
7. O Little Town of Bethlehem
8. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
9. The Christmas Song
10. Good King Wenceslas
11. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
12. Greensleeves