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Personnel: Percy Faith (piano).
Recording information: 1966.
Photographer: Sandy Speiser.
This one was recorded in 1966. It's a great "time peace" of the decade's sounds of the season. ~ David A. Milberg
Possibly Percy Faith's best-selling album, CHRISTMAS IS is a relative rarity in the Toronto-born bandleader/arranger's oeuvre in that it's not primarily an instrumental album. Other than a couple of tracks like a lovely rendition of "I'll be Home For Christmas," the songs feature a largish chorus of sweet-voiced male and female singers in the traditional '50s easy listening style. What made Faith different from all the other easy listening bandleaders is that he knew how to balance the human voice with a full orchestra; these arrangements are fairly remarkable in the way Faith complements the vocals with the lower sonorities of the orchestra, a range he rarely explored on his fully instrumental albums. Percy Faith Christmas Is... Songs Christmas Is... Music Review Purchase Christmas Is... CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Ray Conniff Christmas With Conniff CD (1959)
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| | Ray Conniff We Wish You A Merry Christmas CD (1962)
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Arranger: Ray Conniff.
Ray Conniff was only a step or two above Lawrence Welk, where edginess is concerned, on the easy listening scale, and it is true that his albums could often have a sort of bland, soulless quality in their weakest moments. Nevertheless, there is something undeniably lovely about the orchestral and vocal arrangements on many of his albums, and that is never more so the case than on We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Even ...
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| | Mitch Miller Holiday Sing Along With Mitch CD (1961)
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| | Bert Kaempfert Christmas Wonderland CD (1963)
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| | John Cocuzzi Swingin' And Burnin' CD (2000)
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Personnel: John Cocuzzi (vocals, vibraphone, piano); Allan Vache (clarinet); Steve Abshire (electric guitar); John Previti (bass); Big Joe Maher (drums).
Recorded at Mapleshade Studio, Upper Marlboro, Maryland on July 12 & 13, 1999. Includes liner notes by Pierre Sprey.
John Cocuzzi is a versatile, talented multi-instrumentalist jazz musician who, with his quintet, stretches out for an entertaining 60 minutes-plus of solid, ...
| | Celtic Myst: Christmas Collection CD (2003)
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| | Two Hours Traffic Little Jabs CD (2007)
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Two Hours Traffic doesn’t pull any punches with their second full-length, Little Jabs (Bumstead Records). Joel Plaskett returns to the producer’s chair on Little Jabs, which packs a wallop with eleven captivating tracks that blur the line between folk rock and powerful pop. The video for their seasonal anthem, “Stuck for the Summer,” is currently in rotation on MuchMusic and the band is hitting the Trans-Canada to bring their unparalleled pop sensibilities to the masses. Unabashedly catchy and sincere, Two Hours Traffic is deservedly at the fore of the Canadian Maritime pop revival and Little Jabs will only solidify that position.Two Hours Traffic began in 2003 when ...
| | Classic Soft Rock Christmas CD (2007)
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| | Fellaheen Yours For The Revolution CD (2008)
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About the Band and the AlbumQ: What’s the band name? FellaheenQ: What’s that name mean? It’s an Arabic term for peasant farmers. Philosophically (or so said Oswald Spengler), “fellaheen” refers to the great mass of people who adapt and survive from one civilization to the next without becoming part of any, thus remaining separate from the great movements of history.Q: What’s the band sound like? A: A lyrical mix of sit-down alt rock ’n’ roll, scratchy blues, and downbeat jazz, informed with a murky existential wit. Q: Uh-huh. What’s the band sound like? A: OK. Let’s say: comparable to the likes of -- and influenced by -- Tom Waits, Joe Henry, Sam Phillips, Wilco, Marc Ribot, Kurt Weill, and the Velvet Underground. More deeply-rooted influences include Beggar’s Banquet-era Stones, Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Barney Kessel, Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, and Mose Allison. The lyrical approach is borne out of a head space created in part by the works of Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, Cornel West, Mad Magazine, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kerouac, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Carlin, John Coltrane, Tenzin Gyatso, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Pynchon, Madeline Kahn, Paul Auster, Bugs Bunny, Haruki Murakami, insomnia, moderately-priced red wine, and Dante Aligheri, along with the movies of Vittorio De Sica, Jim Jarmusch, John Sayles, and Wim Wenders.Q: Seriously? A: Yep, no foolin’. But please feel free to arrive at your own conclusions.Q: So what’s the new album called? A: YOURS FOR THE REVOLUTION. Reasons why can be found below*.Q: Who plays on the album? A: For the most part, me, Bruce Hanson, a 44-year-old, substantially-grizzled, slighty off-kilter songwriter and musician born in Chicago and raised in New Jersey. My friend Joe Borthwick, from the Fellaheen live band, plays upright bass on the title track. Occasionally, a truck passing by or the sump pump in the corner of the basement can be heard in the background.Q: Where was it recorded? In a home studio in small town in New Jersey. Q: What’s the band’s operational business model now that the record industry has collapsed under the weight of its own gynormous greed and stupidity? A: YOURS FOR THE REVOLUTION was handmade with love in the same place it was recorded. (“DIY!” said with raised clenched fist.) Q: What are the band’s goals? A: For you to listen to the album. -----------------------------------* The story of YOURS FOR THE REVOLUTION"If you want to know the whole story, you’ll have to find Calliope Frank. Good luck. See, right before the Island went down for good, Frank caught the last ship bound for Timbuktu, his ungainly steam-powered instrument in tow. He’s out there somewhere; when he plays (and you’ll know it when he does), sea otters cavort with ...
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