Something Blue - Silent - December 20, 2014

CDs played
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things and A Love Supreme
Roland Kirk - We Free Kings
George Winston - Linus & Lucy - The Music of Vince Guaraldi and Christmas Time Is Here
Dave Brubeck - Christmas
Jimmy Smith - Christmas Cookin'

John Coltrane, My Favorite Things

Every so often a great jazz performance becomes a Christmas standard and somehow this happened with John Coltrane's version of "My Favorite Things". An internet column written by Evolution about Christmas music inspired me to do this show of great jazz renditions of Christmas standards. So tonight it's Hairy Larry's Merry Christmas, jazz style.

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I'm Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. Visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com to listen anytime. And thanks to the public library where I was able to legally download some of the songs I'm playing for you tonight. Check them out at libraryinjonesboro.org.

Coming right up it's Roland Kirk with "We Free Kings", George Winston doing "Christmas Time Is Here" and Dave Brubeck playing "O Little Town Of Bethlehem".

Roland Kirk, We Free Kings
George Winston, Christmas Time Is Here
Dave Brubeck, O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Jimmy Smith, Greensleeves
Jimmy Smith, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

And that's some "Christmas Cookin'" from Jimmy Smith. We heard "Greensleeves" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman". Nobody plays blues organ like Jimmy Smith and it's great to hear him putting his twist on these Christmas Carols everybody knows.

Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, 91.9 FM and streaming on the internet at kasu.org.

I'm Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue.

Vince Gauraldi wrote a handful of new Christmas standards for the movie, "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Here's George Winston playing the Vince Gauraldi song, "Skating". Then we'll hear Dave Brubeck with "Silent Night" and from "A Love Supreme" John Coltrane will close us out with "Acknowledgement". Until next time this is Hairy Larry saying, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

George Winston, Skating
Dave Brubeck, Silent Night
John Coltrane, Acknowledgement