Music post: Christmas jazz, Latin, and doo-wop

[resonant]

Because I do occasionally enjoy music composed after Queen Elizabeth was dead.



All 13 songs in one .zip, 49 MB.

Vince Guaraldi Trio, Linus and Lucy, from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Instrumental jazz.

Rockapella, Silver Bells, from Christmas. Doo-wop.

Benny Green, Silent Night, from Yule Struttin': A Blue Note Christmas. Slow and sweet. Piano.

Bobby Watson, Vauncing Chimes (Jingle Bells), from Yule Struttin'. Bright. Instrumental jazz.

Chick Corea, Greensleeves, album unknown. dark and lively. Piano jazz.

Duke Ellington, Sugar Rum Cherry, from Nutcracker Suite. The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, with hips. Jazz orchestra.

Ella Fitzgerald, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, from A Swingin' Christmas. Vocal and band.

George Winston, The Holly and the Ivy, from December. Solo piano.

Kevin Connolly, O Come, All Ye Faithful, from Snow Angels. Folk, two voices and guitar.

Nat King Cole, Deck the Hall, from The Christmas Song. Vocal and band.

Simon and Garfunkel, Comfort and Joy, album unknown. Duet.

Vocal Sampling, We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Rhumba Navideñe, from World Christmas. Nutty but fun. Latin, a capella.

Yomo Toro and the Boricua Allstars featuring Ruben Blades and Dave Valentin, Cascabel (Jingle Bells), from World Christmas. Danceable. Latin.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

She's dead? Oh no!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I'm worried about what this is going to do to the British East India Company.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

*clutches tea chest* Yikes, are the natives getting restless?!

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

The Simon and Garfunkel version of 'Comfort and Joy' is realy eerie. Thanks!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It is, isn't it? I love it. It was from one of sathinks's Christmas mixes last year.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

DLing as I type. Thank you!

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Downloading the zip file, thanks!

[rhi]

Snagging the zip file and thank you!

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Yay! Downloading the zip - all I have is the Ellington and Fitzgerald. Thanks for broadening my horizons! :)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Hm! Trying to dl the Linus and Lucy but the download link is, like, recursive or something.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

If you still have that problem, I can re-upload after Christmas. But sometimes the problem goes away if you try again later.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Hm, it's still being weird. What it does is it downloads, instead of the mp3, a file called "fs07n1.sendspace.com". Odd.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I also think it might be the only one doing that--there's this little squiggle character in the link title, it's like "Linus and Lucy (squiggle) .mp3". The others don't seem to have that character--the few I checked, anyway.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

OK, are you right-clicking and choosing Download from the menu? Don't. Just click the link. (At least that's the way it works for me with a Mac/Safari combo.)

The § character is mine -- it's how I mark "working music" (i.e. instrumentals and words not in English) so that iTunes will sort it for me.

And your icons are classic!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, that explains the squiggle, at least--what the heck do you call that symbol?

No, I'm definitely just left-clicking, it claims it's an mp3 link when I hover over it, but I keep getting those recursive files as a download. I do note that the file is 3.6 MB, what one would expect--

--HEY! You know what I just did? I renamed the file from "fs07n4.sendspace.com" to "Linus and Lucy.mp3" and, whaddya know, that's all it took! Yay!! *snoopydances, appropriately*

[flaming-muse.livejournal.com]

I snagged a bunch of them and put them in my holiday music playlist. Thank you! :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The Queen has died???!

O no. Does this mean Charles is King? And Camilla Parker Bowles his Consort?

Hmph.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

And Sir Walter Raleigh is really broken up about it.

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

Took the zip, THANKS!

[wychwood]

Snagged the Simon & Garfunkel track, since I don't believe I've ever come across that before! Thanks.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I got that from sathinks last year! Share and share alike, I say!

[sage]

yay, thank you!

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

I was looking all over for recs for jazz Christmas music last night. And hey, you heard my psychic cry of frustration! :) I'm going to download the zip file. Thank you so much!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

If you're looking to buy CDs, I'd highly recommend Ella's Swinging Christmas and Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite. I like everything on both of them.

[lost-erizo.livejournal.com]

Snagging the zip for my christmas party - Thanks so much! Hope you and the kidlet and all your family have a wonderful holiday. :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thanks! Likewise!

[byandby.livejournal.com]

I snagged the zip file. Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Very lukry lurker downloading here. Thank you and merry Christmas!

[bluenose-zedpm.livejournal.com]

Whoops - forgot to log in. That's me - the lurky lurker. :)

I was just wishing

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

that I had Linus and Lucy.

You are so completely groovy.

[kittiec.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! I'm going to enjoy listening to these. :)