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Joe Pass: Six-String Santa

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On August 6, 1992, “Laser Light Digital” label released “Six-String Santa”, the 58th Joe Pass album. It was recorded in February 1992, at “Sage & Sound Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Ralph Jungheim.

Personnel:

  • Joe Pass – guitar, arrangements
  • John Pisano – rhythm guitar
  • Jim Hughart – acoustic bass
  • Colin Bailey – drums
  • Bill Lightner – editing, mastering
  • James Mooney – engineer
  • Jerry Wood – second engineer
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
  2. (There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays – Robert Allen, Al Stilman
  3. White Christmas – Irving Berlin
  4. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – traditional
  5. O Christmas Tree – traditional
  6. Angels We Have Heard on High/Joy to the World – traditional
  7. Happy Holiday Blues – Joe Pass
  8. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis
  9. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
  10. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
  11. Winter Wonderland – Felix Bernard, Richard Smith

Carla Bley: Carla’s Christmas Carols

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On November 3, 2009, “Watt/ECM” label released “Carla’s Christmas Carols”, the 26th Carla Bley album. It was recorded in December 2008, at “La Buissonne Studios”, Avignon, France, and was produced by Steve Swallow.

Personnel:

  • Carla Bley – piano, celeste
  • Steve Swallow – bass guitar, chimes
  • Tobias Weidinger – trumpet, flugelhorn, glockenspiel
  • Axel Schlosser – trumpet, flugelhorn, chimes
  • Christine Chapman – horn
  • Adrian Mears – trombone
  • Ed Partyka – bass trombone, tuba
  • Nikolaus Lowe – engineer
  • Nicolas Baillard – engineer
  • Gerard de Garo – engineer
  • Ricarda Molder – editing, mastering
  • Watt Works – design
  • Bill Strode – photography

Track listing:

  1. Tannenbaum – traditional
  2. Away in a Manger – James R. Murray
  3. The Christmas Song – Mel Torme, Bob Wells
  4. Ring Christmas Bells – Mykola Leontovych
  5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Part 1 – traditional
  6. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Part 2 – traditional
  7. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – Richard Storrs Willis, Edmund Sears
  8. Hell’s Bells – Carla Bley
  9. Jesus Maria – Carla Bley
  10. Jingle Bells – James Pierpont
  11. O Holy Night – Adolphe Adam, Placide Cappeau
  12. Joy to the World – Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts