Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas

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Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas
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Studio album by
Released1966
RecordedOctober 1966
StudioTel Mar Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Label Cadet
LPS 798
Producer Esmond Edwards
Kenny Burrell chronology
The Tender Gender
(1966)
Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas
(1966)
A Generation Ago Today
(1966-67)

Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas is an album of Christmas music by guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1966 and released on the Cadet label. [1] It peaked at #15 on Billboard's Best Bets For Christmas album chart on December 7, 1968. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars in a review by Michael G. Nastos that stated "With pensive, meditative, precise playing, it's a must-have and features a definitive jazz hit version of "Little Drummer Boy". [3]

Track listing

  1. "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) - 3:37
  2. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) - 3:27
  3. "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 3:34
  4. "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) - 3:06
  5. "Mary's Little Boy Chile" (Jester Hairston) - 2:34
  6. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:10
  7. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Traditional) - 3:51
  8. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) - 3:05
  9. "Children Go Where I Send Thee" (Traditional) - 3:08
  10. "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr) - 2:41
  11. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional) - 2:17
  12. "Merry Christmas Baby" (Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore) - 3:22

Personnel

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References

  1. All About Jazz Kenny Burrell discography accessed August 3, 2012
  2. "Billboard Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 80, no. 49, December 7, 1968, p. 82. worldradiohistory.com.
  3. 1 2 Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review, accessed August 3, 2012
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 202. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.