Crescent City Christmas Card

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Crescent City Christmas Card
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ReleasedOctober 3, 1989 (1989-10-03)
RecordedJanuary 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989
StudioRCA Recording Studios, New York City
Genre Christmas, jazz
Length55:33
Label Columbia
Producer Steven Epstein, George Butler
Wynton Marsalis chronology
The Majesty of the Blues
(1989)
Crescent City Christmas Card
(1989)
Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance
(1990)
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Crescent City Christmas Card is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1989. The album reached a peak position of number fourteen on Billboard 's Top Jazz Albums chart. [2]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Carol of the Bells" Mykola Leontovych/Traditional4:56
2."Silent Night" Franz Grüber, Joseph Mohr 4:47
3."Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley 3:09
4."The Little Drummer Boy" Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone 5:29
5."We Three Kings" John Henry Hopkins Jr. 5:22
6."O Tannenbaum"Traditional1:39
7."Sleigh Ride" Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish 4:29
8."Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 4:20
9."God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"Traditional5:43
10."Winter Wonderland" Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith 2:55
11."Jingle Bells" James Lord Pierpont 3:23
12."O Come All Ye Faithful" Frederick Oakeley, John Reading, John Francis Wade 1:37
13."'Twas the Night Before Christmas" Clement Clarke Moore/Traditional8:07

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References

  1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 953. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  2. Yanow, Scott. "Crescent City Christmas Card". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 September 2018.