Crescent City Christmas Card

Crescent City Christmas Card
Studio album by
Wynton Marsalis
ReleasedOctober 3, 1989 (1989-10-03)
RecordedJanuary 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989
StudioRCA Recording Studios, New York City
GenreChristmas, jazz
Length55:33
LabelColumbia
ProducerSteven 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)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Carol of the Bells"Mykola Leontovych/Traditional4:56
2."Silent Night"Franz Grüber, Joseph Mohr4:47
3."Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley3:09
4."The Little Drummer Boy"Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone5:29
5."We Three Kings"John Henry Hopkins Jr.5:22
6."O Tannenbaum"Traditional1:39
7."Sleigh Ride"Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish4:29
8."Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne4:20
9."God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"Traditional5:43
10."Winter Wonderland"Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith2:55
11."Jingle Bells"James Lord Pierpont3:23
12."O Come All Ye Faithful"Frederick Oakeley, John Reading, John Francis Wade1:37
13."'Twas the Night Before Christmas"Clement Clarke Moore/Traditional8:07

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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 27 September 2018.


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