Gary Shivers on Jazz; Christmas Season Part 1 and 2

anna lee and as they will still be recorded live in toronto in nineteen eighty fervently jingle bells of the quills good's album live at cafe to copernicus released on canadian unison records that will stood and drink oh girls and we heard that unfurled a trio of money but who had in common they like that world is music from on the charlie brown specials that was the charlie brown thing we're listening to the music of the season this week on w and c it's nine minutes past one o'clock the secular songs of the season evokes a major images of the celebrations presents under the tree the happy faces of children family's altogether jolly old saying that glowing fires big eats the moods of warmth and comfort and love the spirit of renewing expressing friendships and ties the secular songs of the season concern themselves with all that holiday feeling and with its absence than the songs may comfort or exploit those who feel more poignantly separate

in this season a lot of the songs are about the gifts the goods the products the merchandise the products which would not exist where they not great gift ideas in the end the secular songs tell us how we think about the season how we feel about how we use it and there are recordings to remind us how we abuse the season in the past some of these songs are also really pretty as a kind of radio christmas card i wanna see how are these recordings can take us in evoking the meanings and uses of the spirit of the season and we have many new performances to listen to this year and wunc's service christmas card at home in jazz and and secular popular music of the season that one of the newest albums this season is the crescent city christmas card by wynton marsalis joe it's

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george shearing with don thompson days away in a manger was recorded in nineteen eighty three for the concord jazz album top drawer george shearing and mel torme and george shearing was instrumental performance away in the manger we heard a group of a traditional carol it's an unusual performances non traditional performances we began with wynton marsalis new performance of carol of the bill swint marcellus crescent city christmas card is new this season from colombia

and we heard roland kirk says we've freed kings of a crow and kirk's performance of we three kings has been reissued the season in a new first collection have yourself a jazzy little christmas we heard what child is this and that is our first puzzle record the date's name of name the singer and you can have the record mart near the child is this is almost gave away away in a manger was by george shearing a twenty two minutes that one o'clock on duty unc i think one of the loveliest secular songs one of the most or one of the ugliest waltzes of all american popular song is the christmas waltz by julie styne sammy cahn sinatra has recorded it three times and i can think of for his son reprise and capitol christmas albums and a nineteen fifty four performance for capitol released only as a single originally and very rare until last season

when the sinatra christmas album was published on compact disc and this original performance of the christmas waltz was added this is nineteen fifty four a performance of the julie styne sammy cahn christmas waltz and it is the first of several performances we will hear at is no yes is this

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nice job i know music of the season and w and c of ninety minutes before two o'clock we heard several performances of the year the lovely and graceful christmas waltz written by julie stein with lyrics by sammy can we heard sinatra's first recording of it and their nineteen fifty four performance and capital now included in theory a compact disc edition of the sinatra christmas album weird tv oh nelson riddle arrangement for senator gordon jenkins the more familiar later recording

ideally probably what they believe may arrangement sang every christmas waltz in her capitol christmas album titled the christmas list ideally we heard a new performance of a christmas waltz by meredith ambrogio accompanied by hank jones at the piano and a record of the song which if it didn't exist i could not imagine a duet phil woods altos steve gilmore bass christmas or not to be outdone was slow tempos of the season here is freddy martin thank you is as freddy martin and a real excited pretty much notice we found a song for the yuletide season which we think will be one of the best records we've ever made so greetings to you all and here's hoping you like our merry christmas ok let's listen to it now we came to

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it is so this is by songs of the season six minutes before two o'clock and the unc we heard friday martin and the christmas poker that was another puzzle record that you did you know that the center

was merv griffin and we heard richie call an art pepper to alter's plane sleigh ride their rhythm section was a roger callaway general bob magnus and bass billy higgins drum mr sleigh ride by richie cole and art pepper and yes yet another version of the christmas waltz we're not finished with the prison's walls of semi common and julie stein was sung by diane reeves with a french prisoner a piano max bennett base and trevor feldman feldman son trevor feldman on drums diane reidy and the christmas wants the pianist and music director of the modern jazz quartet and brilliant composer arranger john lewis has has been intrigued for many years with what he calls england's carol god rest ye merry gentlemen he's recorded several times we've heard in previous seasons as performances with a large symphony this is a quartet performance of england's carol recorded in nineteen fifty six by john lewis milt jackson percy heath and khan aka the modern jazz quartet

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piano milt jackson five's perceived based khan aka drums england's carol by john lewis based on god rest ye merry gentlemen i recorded the music in nineteen fifty six for atlantic one minute best to a caucus w unc chapel hill public radio in central north carolina and at ninety one point five fm this afternoon at five on the un see all things considered line from national public radio in washington then at six garrison keillor his american radio company of the areas it's here garrison keillor's new series live from the brooklyn academy of music and tonight garrison keillor's guest will be marilyn horne that's at six o'clock this evening and over unc innovate back porch music tonight phil summer day and performs in the w and c studios music from his recent recording of music of the season of summer dan gage and back porch music tonight at ten the thistle and shamrock and eleven npr is american jazz radio festival tonight exclusive recordings of a sphere the quartet of the late charlie rouse the tenor

saxophonist kenny barron piano buster williams baseman riley drums steer he and unique recordings from and be ours american jazz radio festival eleven o'clock tonight and unc there's a forecast that triangle as afternoon sunny breezy and cold the high near thirty tonight karen colo of ten to fifteen degrees on sunday partly cloudy skies cold temperatures the half high in the lower thirties tomorrow right now thirty two degrees the triangle thirty in greensboro this is a family season and hear our performances of music of the seasons by family combinations beginning with bing crosby's first family nisha witt

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it families christmas time twenty minutes left two until you and say we've heard their recordings of the several families they count as families the first was so was the crosby christmas record about nineteen fifty two by bing crosby's first family gary philp dennis lindsay and being all that music was original music by jimmy van heusen and johnny burke from a deck or seventy eight crosby christmas we heard the sinatra says her family sang original music by a semi comic

jimmy van heusen i wouldn't trade christmas from the reprise album the sinatra family wish you a merry christmas frank frank jr nancy jr and tina sinatra this causes a family arthur godfrey and all the little godfrey's sweeter than saying white christmas and one of the first colombia all these are all the little godfrey's included janet davis how he'll keep the mariners friend parker and mary anne morrow julius a rosa and lou and sims archie bleyer and the orchestra and arthur godfrey christmas and that was music was gifts for the children played by the phil woods quintet and the singer was phil woods stepdaughter kim parker are tom harrell steve gilmore how comparable goodwin phil woods and kim parker and gifts for the children bing crosby recorded white christmas appeared in holiday inn and then the remake of white christmas with that as the title music and he

introduced that famous irving berlin song that we heard sung by arthur godfrey in his radio family and bing crosby is so much associated with the season through those later television specials with his second family and through very many recordings this is a very unusual one beginning a sequence of recordings of bing crosby and the season and this one is a song by alec wilder and arnold sundered are released in a rare account or tap forty five by bing crosby he's a christmas season

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bank can evolve but they're going to gather around the microphone is on the cusp of reading from our co workers that he's you know i'm the lucky fellow lawyers to sue you know every man woman the organization is conscious of your friends the young lady who fights the live without the manifest your records and all of you realize how essential for operations of all concerned to make possible nowadays or some of the progress of our company is zaria say i'm missing this christmas party give me of an opportunity arose and the thanks steve and most capable hands was capable hands are continuously giving us of the ever increasing problems over drawing the most i don't interact know about who's driving force are much different that she would have been extremely difficult day ban all abortions to you and everyone else but the limitation of space and time and the right

thing i want you all that happy to note that the poll that they know that the world i think there is that that they will and bad because the new line of audio now as a brother i can't top that one wonders at the movie limitless faith great britain's in revenue for him i think we were lucky to have little jackson audio of the cell phone magnus has many many of the olive on may also rock until we get the effect and i want to say something else alone saved the phone that update hint of this when i think of the radio or to funnel them through our many

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six remove all our own loyal moon owner is it of the seasons by bing crosby who has been so much associated with the season through his radio and television specials in and of course bore white christmas the song in the movie and bing crosby twenty one minutes before three o'clock and unc music we heard bing crosby began with how lovely it is christmas song written by alec wilder and arnold some regard for a christmas story for children that bing crosby narrated

an ax an apple and a buckskin jacket which was released by simon and schuster has the of the song hello please christmas was released on cap records by david hare and then we heard his father jack kemp and other decca records employees are greeting that the employees at christmastime nineteen forty the voices of connie boswell bob crosby and the bobcats victory young jack kapp the founder of decca and bing crosby made decca greeting decade employees in nineteen forty that regard he was released on a compact disc by ncaa bing crosby sings christmas song as we heard i wish you a merry christmas and the title of the warner brothers' album crosby mid nineteen sixty two now on compact disc from capital records you are all i want for christmas was so from that and see a collection and compact disc of rarities that christmas feeling was written by johnny burke and jimmy van heusen

for crosby had in the early fifties it was one of the songs he introduced in the crosby christmas we heard earlier that christmas feeling and later became the title of the dhaka album and the secret of christmas was another original piece written for crosby by jimmy van heusen and sammy cahn had recorded in the reprise album twelve songs of christmas bing crosby frank sinatra and fred waring and pennsylvanians the secretive christmas by bing crosby and fred waring another of the voices we so much associate with the season three is so television specials and without which you just doesn't seem like the seasoned catered as written if i had one christmas prayer it would be nice to spend the rest of the christmas seasons i'm on earth listening to perry como singing ave maria cardona road and not until como comes out of hibernation and jupiter florida and arrives on the tv scene will i concede that the christmas season is in full bloom we have christmas music by perry como

and we are reminded that i wonder whether comedy how i wonder how many of his one would make this and we're reminded that many of us heard the christmas story first told by perry como he made this new christmas record in his seventieth year the music is by android andrew lloyd webber services these things

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i'm standing on a hillside near downtown in palestine you see the men walking slowly his name is just someone is sitting on the back her name is marilyn come a long long way and they're heading for a little town near the hillside on which we're standing something very special it

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in the soft sweet day of a major nice day oh wow oh oh let's do that with a shepherd's attending what was a shepherd to fight and you'd be frightened to because the great whites of nations inspect and but then you know the voices

and you think he's a decent thing is good news news of the sleeve you can listen to these are the pope he's

at peace and the angels and as they leave the sky is doing as a singer and he's good moods the man ah it's very it's christmas it's big

us way of us goes in and you know look up into the sky lights twinkling in the gardens only three men are looking at this and they're using this as at least two human beings stay or leave these are

is it this the new star guides instinctive of land to a little baby lying in the main three wise men present gifts to the first christmas gifts didn't anyone do we since singing how great is that these

this is why we celebrate christmas we think that we think of the average american we think of the three wise men and the birth of the first christmas the pain

it's b the story of the first christmas was told by perry como in his nineteen sixty album seasons greetings from perry como untold as he told it in this christmas specials on tv for somebody years we also heard other songs with a medley of here we come and carolyn and we wish you a merry christmas and home for the holidays a record by perry como in the sixties and christmas dream was recorded in nineteen eighty two and now perry como his seventieth year the song was written by tim grayson andrew lloyd webber christmas dream from carrie kahn was rca album i wish it could be christmas for every one minute before three o'clock and at unc chapel hill public radio in central north carolina state ninety one point five fm this afternoon a tribe all things considered line from washington on national public radio and the usc at

six garrison keillor's american radio company of the air and harrison's guest tonight will be marilyn horne that's at six o'clock and ate our own back porch music and tonight dulcimer band performs in the w and c studios music from his new recording of seasonal musical summer dan and back porch music at the salon shamrock a fielder richie of ten and eleven the american jazz radio festival features unique recordings of the late charlie rouse the tenor saxophonist with his quartet sphere including kenny barron piano lester williams based been rightly drums charles ross charlie rouse after eleven tonight on npr's american jazz reviewed festival is the forecast for the trial well this afternoon sunny breezy called the high near thirty tonight clear skies and cold temperatures over ten fifteen tonight and tomorrow part mccarthy continued called the high in the low thirties tomorrow right now thirty three degrees in the triangle for the

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