8 Jazz Clips for XMAS Eve

Jazz musicians and singers always provide a little something extra to any holiday song. Perhaps it's a bit of blues. Or maybe just a keen sense of how to give a commercial melody a soulful spin. Here are eight you may not know:

Here's Bill Evans singing and playing Santa Claus Is Coming to Town...



Here's Anita O'Day singing The Christmas Song...



Here's alto saxophonist Herb Geller and wife-pianist Lorraine Geller playing Sleigh Ride...



Here's Sarah Vaughan singing Happy Holiday and White Christmas...



Here's Billie Holiday singing I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm...



Here's Dinah Washington singing Ole Santa...



Here's Nancy Wilson singing The Christmas Waltz...



And here's June Christy singing Christmas Heart...