Crescent City Christmas Card

Crescent City Christmas Card
Studio album by Wynton Marsalis
Released	October 3, 1989 (1989-10-03)
Recorded	January 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989
Studio	RCA, New York City
Genre	Christmas, jazz
Length	55:33
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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Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[1]

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]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Carol of the Bells"	Mykola Leontovych/Traditional	4:56
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"	Traditional	1:39
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"	Traditional	5:43
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/Traditional	8:07

Personnel

• Wynton Marsalis – trumpet, narrator, arranger
• Kathleen Battle – vocals
• Jon Hendricks – vocals
• Wessell Anderson – alto saxophone
• Todd Williams – clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Alvin Batiste – clarinet
• Joe Temperley – bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
• Wycliffe Gordon – trombone
• Marcus Roberts – piano
• Reginald Veal – bass
• Ben Riley – drums
• Herlin Riley – drums

Technical

• Steven Epstein – producer
• George Butler – executive producer, producer
• Dennis Ferrante – engineer
• Tim Geelan – engineer
• Stanley Crouch – liner notes

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 September 27, 2018.