FJD Christmas Show Playlist

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Billy May Orchestra—Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo

Johnny Otis/Mel Walker/Little Esther—Faraway Christmas Blues—Savoy 1950

Jimmy Knepper Quintet—The Masher—Jimmy Knepper In L.A. —Inner City 1979

Jimmy Knepper Quintet—My Old Flame—Jimmy Knepper In L.A—Inner City 1979

Rene Marie—Winter Wonderland

Miles Davis—Lazy Susan—Blue Note 1954

Joe Negri—Silver Bells—Guitars For Christmas—MCGJazz 2003

Gerry Mulligain—Black Nightgown—I Want To Live Soundtrack—United Artists

Aaron Binder—Al’s Jowls—As Modern As Tomorrow—Binder Jazz 1998

Bruce Gertz Quintet—Proton—Blueprint—Evidence 1997

Pete Jolly—O Tannenbaum

George Melvin/Blue Indigo—Wessin’ It—Catwalk—Nighthawk 1996

Bing Crosby—Let It Snow, Let It Snow—I Wish You A Merry Christmas—Warner Brothers 1962

Aaron Parks Quintet—Planting Flowers—The Wizard—Keynote 2001

Frank Morgan—Ceola—Lament—Contemporary 1986

Julie London—I Want You For Christmas

Chet Baker—It Came Upon A Midnight Clear—Silent Nights—Varrick/Rounder 1986

John La Porta—Theme: Blues Chorale/3^rd Variation (Tribute To Bird)—Theme And Variations—Fantasy Reissue 1957

Emily Remler—Movin’ Along—Firefly—Concord 1981

Records From Aunt Ruth Entry

Chet Baker & Christopher Mason

“We Three Kings”

Silent Nights: A Christmas Jazz Album

Varrick/Rounder 1986

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Two-Of-A-Kind Entry

The composition “The Christmas Song”, composed by Mel Torme & R. Wells

Version 1:

Nat King Cole from The Nat King Cole Story, recorded in 1961

Version 2:

Dexter Gordon from The Panther!, recorded in 1970