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Swing Into Christmas

Down For The Count Swing Orchestra

Label: Down for the Count
Released: 2020
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Tracks

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year; Santa Baby; The Things We Did Last Summer; Winter Wonderland; What Are You Doing New Year's Eve; Christmas in New Orleans; White Christmas; The Christmas Waltz; Angel; Sugar Rum Cherry; This Christmas; I'll Be Home for Christmas; I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)

Personnel

Down For The Count Swing Orchestra

band / ensemble / orchestra

Album Description

“Swing Into Christmas” is Down for the Count’s holiday celebration - a collection of our favourite Christmas tunes, alongside a few winter-themed jazz standards.
This album is special to us, as it’s the first time we have worked in the studio with string players. For years, we at Down for the Count have dreamt about adding strings to the line-up, and over the past year or so we have been lucky enough to work with City String Ensemble, led by Sophie Poteratchi. They are not only fantastically talented musicians, but they are also a wonderful group of people to be around, and it has been a joy welcoming them to the Down for the Count family. Huge thanks to Sophie and her team for their energy and positivity - we hope that this will be the first of many albums we record together, and we’re sorry that you’ve had to endure our questionable sense of humour and 15 years of “in-jokes”. For this album we’ve also expanded the regular Down for the Count line-up with more instruments, including trombone and percussion, and we hope that listeners enjoy the results!

Studio engineers Ben Thomas & Jack Childs
Mixing Mike Paul-Smith ~ Mastering Jack Childs
Album artwork Mike Paul-Smith & Ellie Jones
Studio Photography John Rixon Additional Photography Kyle Keegan

Recorded at The Cold Stores, Kent on January 26th, September 5th & September 6th 2020
Produced by Mike Paul-Smith

Album uploaded by Mike Paul-Smith