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Track Listing
1. O Tannenbaum
2. Away In a Manger
3. Christmas Song, The
4. Ring Christmas Bells
5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [Part One]
6. God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman [Part Two]
7. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
8. Hell's Bells
9. Jesus Maria
10. Jingle Bells
11. O Holy Night - (live)
12. Joy To the World - (live)
| Details | | Producer: | Carla Bley, Steve Swallow | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Axel Schlosser (trumpet, flugelhorn, chimes); Adrian Mears (trombone); Christine Chapman (horns).
Recording information: The Passionskirche, Berlin, Germany (12/04/2008); La Buissonne Studio, Pernes Les Fontaines (12/08/2008-12/09/2008).
Editor: Ricarda Molder.
Arranger: Carla Bley.
Carla Bley and Christmas carols? You bet. She loves them and has incorporated them into her live sets for decades now. On CARLA'S CHRISTMAS CAROLS, recorded in 2008 at La Buisonne Studio in the south of France, she and bassist Steve Swallow took a couple of days off a European tour with the Partyka Brass Quintet and cut 10 of the 12 selections there. The other two pieces -- "O Holy Night" and "Joy to the World" -- were taken from a concert performance four days earlier in Berlin. Bley's arrangements are both elegant and sometimes quirky, but always engaging and fun, and show a complete love of the original material.
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