Christmas All Year

10 CD box set that includes fourteen of the best (and rarest) original Christmas jazz albums from Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Ramsey Lewis, Till Brönner and Stan Kenton. Plus jazz-inflected albums by June Christy, Patti Page, Johnny Mathis, Charles Brown and many more.

A rhetorical question: what makes a great Christmas album? We know all or most of the chestnuts, both commercial and religious. The Drummer Boy flams, someone's dreaming white, and another will be home in their dreams. The annual marathon Yuletide programs rely heavily on the tried and true with an occasional novelty thrown in. Classical purists hit up the legit pantheon. With this album, a capella vocal group, Accent adds a Who's Who of world-class arrangers (Jorge Calandrelli, Nan Schwartz, Elliot Deutsch and including group members James Rose and Simon Åkesson), celebrated musicians (including Arturo Sandoval), and takes the obligatory jazz Holiday album to an invitingly unique level the appeal of which is infectious.

This collection contains compositions about Christmas, it is released on the Legacy Recordings label October 20, 2023.

The first ever holiday release from multi‐platinum selling Canadian Icon, Jann Arden.
Produced by Bob Rock, this stunning album has classic songs so beautifully sung that you wish it were Christmas all year round.

How many blues artists remained at the absolute top of their game after more than a half-century of performing? One immediately leaps to mind: Charles Brown. His incredible piano skills and laid-back vocal delivery remained every bit as mesmerizing at the end of his life as they were way back in 1945, when his groundbreaking waxing of "Drifting Blues" with guitarist Johnny Moore's Three Blazers invented an entirely new blues genre for sophisticated postwar revelers: an ultra-mellow, jazz-inflected sound perfect for sipping a late-night libation in some hip after-hours joint.