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Toe Tappin' Jazz

Label: North Star Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Good Quenn Bess; If I Were a Bell; Funky Blues; Stuffy; Theme from M Squad; Li'l Darlin; Don't Be That Way; Fish Market; Sunny Side of the Street; Down for the Double; One Sweet Letter from You; Pyramid.

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Jay Geils: Toe Tappin' Jazz

Read "Toe Tappin' Jazz" reviewed by Charlie Ricci


Toe Tappin' Jazz, released near the end of 2009, is the most outstanding new jazz CD I've heard in many years. The band leader is guitarist Jay Geils, formerly known as J. Geils, founder of Boston's famous party band of the 70s and 80s whose biggest hits were “Lookin' For a Love," “Give It To Me," ...

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Sweet Melody

Label: North Star Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart; Tenderly; I Got It Bad (And That Ain

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A Bowl of Merry: Music for Holiday Joy and Celebration

Label: North Star Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Il Est ne le Divin Enfant; I Saw Three Ships / Deck the Halls; Angels We Have Heard on High; Silent Night; Good King Wenceslas; I

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Mistletoe Sax

Label: North Star Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Christmas Song; O Tannenbaum; Winter Wonderland; Silent Night; Deck the Halls; Christmastime Is Here; White Christmas; What Child Is This; I

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Various Artists: A Bowl of Merry: Music for Holiday Joy and Celebration

Read "A Bowl of Merry: Music for Holiday Joy and Celebration" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There’s not much Jazz in this motley Bowl of Merry, but there is an abundance of delightful holiday music from a number of well–endowed groups of various shapes, sizes and forms. As Jazz is my bailiwick I’d not heard of any of them, but must say they are quite good at what they do, which is ...

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Bruce Abbott and the North Star Jazz Ensemble: Mistletoe Sax

Read "Mistletoe Sax" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Listening to this seasonal mélange by saxophonist Bruce Abbott and the North Star Jazz Ensemble (supported by the Hawthorne String Quartet), the word “pleasant” springs to mind. The liner notes portray the album as a “collection of beloved holiday chestnuts” that is “richly romantic, slightly nostalgic and entirely engaging,” and I can’t think of a more ...

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Rosemary Clooney: Sweet Melody

Read "Sweet Melody" reviewed by Jack Bowers


What can I say about Rosemary Clooney that I’ve not said hundreds of times before — that she is one of the most charming and intelligent interpreters of popular song that it has ever been my pleasure to hear and appreciate. These fourteen examples of Rosie’s uncommon artistry, recorded between 1949 and ’56, include four from ...

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Deck the Halls

Label: North Star Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Angels We Have Heard on High; Good King Wenseslas; The First Noel; Joy to the World; What Child is This/Greensleeves; Deck the Halls; While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks; We Three Kings; Silent Night; Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella/I Saw Three Ships; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Glory, Sing Glory; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.

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Let It Snow

Label: North Star Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Christmas Song; White Christmas; Let It Snow; It?s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Winter Wonderland; Sleep Well, Little Children; I?ll Be Home for Christmas; Christmas Time Is Here; Santa Claus Is Coming to Town; The Christmas Waltz; Christmas Mem?ries; The Spirit of Christmas (41:48).


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