| Six-String Santa | ||||
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| Released | August 6, 1992 [1] | |||
| Recorded | February 2, 1992 [2] | |||
| Studio | Sage & Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA [2] | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 45:36 | |||
| Label | LaserLight Digital | |||
| Producer | Ralph Jungheim | |||
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Six-String Santa is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1992.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote "Pass and his regular working quartet of the early '90s (rhythm guitarist John Pisano, bassist Jim Hughart and drummer Colin Bailey) perform a variety of famous Christmas-related songs, plus his own "Happy Holiday Blues." The tasteful renditions swing and include quartet pieces, some two-guitar duets and a few unaccompanied solos from the great Pass, resulting in one of the better Christmas albums around." [2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" | Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne | 3:39 |
| 2. | "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays" | Robert Allen, Al Stillman | 3:58 |
| 3. | "White Christmas" | Irving Berlin | 3:14 |
| 4. | "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" | traditional | 3:20 |
| 5. | "O Christmas Tree" | traditional | 3:31 |
| 6. | "Angels We Have Heard on High/Joy to the World" | traditional | 4:36 |
| 7. | "Happy Holiday Blues" | Joe Pass | 5:16 |
| 8. | "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" | Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis | 4:28 |
| 9. | "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" | J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie | 4:45 |
| 10. | "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane | 4:36 |
| 11. | "Winter Wonderland" | Felix Bernard, Richard Smith | 4:13 |
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