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]
| Crescent City Christmas Card | ||||
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| Released | October 3, 1989 | |||
| Recorded | January 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989 | |||
| Studio | RCA Recording Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Christmas, jazz | |||
| Length | 55:33 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Steven Epstein, George Butler | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |   [1] |
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 953. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "Crescent City Christmas Card". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
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