Christmas in Hong Kong with Kong Ling
It is the eternal fate of a vocal album, for better or for worse, that it will be judged mainly by the quality of its vocals.
Urbie Green and his All-Stars – A Cool Yuletide
The release is on a recently-launched budget label, whose lack of any clear direction meant that it would soon be wound up.
The Singers Unlimited – Christmas
You can tell by the cover that Christmas by The Singers Unlimited is no ordinary Christmas album.
Pia Raug & Steve Dobrogosz – Ind Under Jul
Pia Raug is a sensitive, warm Danish folk singer-songwriter, rooted in a thoroughly american-inspired 1970s tradition that approaches blues, country and pop with as much reverence
Lester Lanin – Christmas Dance Party
Is there any Christmas music that’s just for really rich people? Once, of course, the likes of Händel’s Messiah would be performed for royalty and the upper echelons of
Swingle Singers – Noëls sans Passeport
As a European Union national living in the United Kingdom, 2017 promises to be a year of changes.
Chet Atkins – Christmas with Chet Atkins
As long as there have been Christmas records, there have been solo instrumental Christmas records.
Duke Pearson – Merry Ole Soul
Most of the Christmas records we review on this site are perennial classics, constantly reissued and treasured from generation to generation.
Peggy Lee – Christmas Carousel
One of the fantastic things about that golden period in the early sixties, when so many of history’s great Christmas records were released, is that so many truly sophisticate
Funky Christmas
There are – which I’m sure surprises precisely none of you – a lot of artists past their prime who record Christmas music.