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Skafish

Syncopate! Percolate! Deck-The-Halls-With-Boughs-of-Hollyate! Put aside the holiday caroling this year and groove up to Christmas jazz in a free-and-easy soulful sound that’s smooth, sprightly and utterly surprising to the senses. Tidings of Comfort and Joy, A Jazz Piano Trio Christmas is a collection of thirteen of your favorite yuletide classics as you’ve never heard them before - ear-pleasing and ear-perking treats packed together like an assortment of gifts in an overstuffed Christmas stocking…a sound of cheerful familiarity, a dynamic trio of piano, bass and drums arranged and delivered to your ears in uplifting, spirited, innovative ways…a masterful conversion of traditional harmonies into effervescent pieces ranging from swing to progressive fusion..

Tidings of Comfort and Joy

By Skafish

Label: La Befana Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Joy to the World; Deck the Halls; The First Noel; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Silent Night; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; O Come O Come Emmanuel; What Child is This?; Angles We Have Heard on High; Away in a Manger; We Three Kings Fusion; God Rest Ye Merry Gents; Jingle Bells.

Tidings of Comfort and Joy: A Jazz Piano Trio Christmas

By Skafish

Label: La Befana Records
Released: 2006

Skafish: Tidings of Comfort and Joy

by Jerry D'Souza
November 10, 2006

Jim Skafish first appeared in 1976 with his eponymous band as part of the New Wave/punk movement. Their self-titled debut album was well received, and they appeared in the movie Urgh! A Music War (1981) with the Police, Wall of Voodoo and the Dead Kennedys, among others. But things were soon to change. Their record label ...