Christmas Fantasy is the seventh studio album by American singer Anita Baker. It was released on October 4, 2005, by Blue Note Records. Her first and only Christmas album, it was produced by Baker along with Barry Eastmond, featuring three original songs and six cover versions of Christmas standards and carols. Christmas Fantasy peaked at number 120 on the US Billboard 200, and number 17 on the Top Holiday Albums and remains her last album to date.
Caroline Sullivan, writing for The Guardian, found that Baker's "first Christmas album is exactly the ticket for that pre-coma moment late on December 25, when all you can face is something cool and easily digestible." She concluded: "With not an ounce of filler, you might even want to listen to it again, come January."[4]AllMusic editor David Jeffries remarked that "there are only nine tracks on Baker's Christmas Fantasy, but the album still clocks in at 45 minutes, with most tracks letting things comfortably develop past the five-minute mark. Part of the reason for this is the band. With George Duke, Larry Carlton, Joe Sample, the underrated Ricky Lawson, and other top-notch folk involved, it would be a shame not to let these boys play, but as much as they get to vamp, it's still Baker's album, 100 percent."[2] Paul Robinson from Gigwise wrote: "Ready to cash in, Anita and her ‘unknown’ collaborators provide what any Christmas CD provides while tucking into your turkey… ambience!!"[3]
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
