Deck the halls with jazzy fun.Byline: The Register-Guard WINTER The Origin Quartet (Origin) Come, let us adore Origin Records' Seattle jazz quartet having its delightful way with traditional Christmas fare such as "Let It Snow," "Greensleves" and "Little Drummer Boy Drummer Boy is an EP release by Christian folk group Jars of Clay featuring a new interpretation the classic 1958 Christmas Carol "Little Drummer Boy," originally by the Harry Simeone Chorale. ." With Hans Teuber on saxophones and piano, Dave Peterson Dave Peterson, alias The Prodigy (born September 6, 1986) is a super middleweight professional boxer from Minnesota. Personal Life Peterson is a native of Mounds View, Minnesota. on guitar and piano, Jeff Johnson on bass and John Bishop on drums, the swinging quartet has a blast finding new approaches songs such as "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel O come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Christian Latin text ("Veni, veni, Emmanuel") by John Mason Neale in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons (the O Antiphons ." -Fred Crafts, The Register-Guard CHRISTMAS WITH THE RAT PACK Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. (Capitol) Sincere Frank; sly, casual Dean; earnest, easygoing eas·y·go·ing also eas·y-go·ing adj. 1. a. Living without undue worry or concern; calm. b. Lax or negligent; careless. c. Sammy - the Rat Packers are on their best behavior as they ring-a-ding-ding in the holidays on this compilation. When Sinatra sings ``I Believe,'' you will, too; Davis includes the seldom-heard opening verse in his rendition of ``The Christmas Song''; and Martin probably had a very shiny nose when he sang about ``Rudolph.'' Rarities include a couple of tracks from Martin-Sinatra holiday specials in 1967 and 1970. -Richard Harrington, The Washington Post THIS CHRISTMAS Ann Hampton Callaway Ann Hampton Callaway (born May 30 1959) is a singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the theme to the TV series The Nanny and starring in the Broadway musical Swing! (N-Coded Music) Seasonal favorites get all jazzed up in singer-pianist Ann Hampton Callaway's excellent holiday re-release. By belting at one moment and purring purring a physiologically very complicated, semi-automatic, cyclic, controlled respiration involving alternating activity of the diaphragm and intrinsic laryngeal muscles in cats. The frequency of the alternation is about 25 times per second. the next, the rising star brings smiles with bouncy renditions of "Jingle Bells," "The Christmas Song" and "This Christmas." -Fred Crafts, The Register-Guard |
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