Results for "Big Band Christmas"

Big Band Christmas

Label: Slam Productions
Released: 2000

Big Band Christmas

By Ralph Carmichael

Label: Family Net
Released: 1999
Track listing: Joy to the World; Once in Royal David City; Silent Night; We Three Kings; Go Tell IT on The Mountain; Angels We Have Heard On Time; Caroling, Caroling; Sleigh Ride; The Holly and The Ivy; Christmas Medely; Good King Wencelas; God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman; Away in A Manger; O Come All Ye Faithful. (Total Playing Time 64:14).

Ralph Carmichael's Big Band: Big Band Christmas

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 1999

Tremendous Sound. Make no mistake, this is a BIG band disc. Carmichael's band bursts out all over the place with holiday cheer. His arrangements and bubbly and bright, providing a contemporary big band seasonal offering. The arrangements were originally used with another great big band, that of Stan Kenton's in 1961. This current disc was recorded ...

Big Band Christmas

By Rob McConnell

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1998
Track listing: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas/I’ll Be Home for Christmas; Silver Bells/In the Bleak Mid–Winter; White Christmas/Let It Snow/Winter Wonderland; Away in a Manger; The Christmas Waltz; The Christmas Song; What Are You Doing New Years’ Eve?; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear/Silent Night; My Favorite Things; A Christmas Love Song; O Little Town of Bethlehem/Joy to the World.

Rob McConnell: Big Band Christmas

by Jim Santella
November 1, 1998

The clear precise intonation of Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass lends itself to Christmas music. And the swinging, fun-loving arrangements are a natural for any holiday season. Rob McConnell has put them together and the result is one swingin’ good time.Robert Murray Gordon McConnell founded the Boss Brass in 1968 as a working group for ...

Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass: Big Band Christmas

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

Having recorded two recent theme–oriented albums for Concord Jazz ( Play the Jazz Classics, Even Canadians Get the Blues ) Rob McConnell and his valorous Boss Brass confront the definitive musical “theme” in a Big Band Christmas. The carols and other seasonal offerings, all expertly arranged by McConnell, are wonderfully recited by an ensemble that is ...