For those readers not familiar with my curious obsession with Christmas music, let me just say that you are in the sure and steady hands of a holiday music connoisseur-a man who every year sends out ...

The relationship between the secular Christmas music that emerged in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, and jazz is that both drew heavily from the same source—the Broadway songbook—for the same ...

Floating On A Snow Snowflake; The Warmth We Kept In December; What A Heart What A Soul What A Hero; Unwrapping You This Christmas; Five Little Elves; John Lennon(He Died With Hope In His Eyes); Happy ...

The familiar tunes of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” transport us. The opening measures make us children again, abed after Christmas dinner as the subtle sounds of the record player waft in from another ...

Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. There’s no big preamble to this Christmas jazz list of mine, save for a desire to show off ...

Before Mariah Carey took possession of the holiday airwaves with “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” songs by the great American songwriters dominated the Christmas season. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, ...

Jazz vocalist Tammy McCann returns as Artist in Residence to present a holiday concert combining jazz and rhythm and blues ...

The holiday theme for Jazz Piano Christmas this year was definitely for the adventurous among us. Our three performers placed familiar holiday songs inside masterfully crafted clusters of sound and ...

It's hard to believe that Jazz Piano Christmas celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. We were initially stumped on how to celebrate, but as we reminisced about the many pianists we have featured ...