Christmas Songs (Diana Krall album)

Christmas Songs
Compilation album by Diana Krall
Released November 1, 2005
Recorded 2005
Genre Jazz
Length 35:10
Label Verve Records
Producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall
Diana Krall chronology
The Girl in the Other Room
(2004)		 Christmas Songs
(2005)		 From This Moment On
(2006)
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Christmas Songs is a 2005 (see 2005 in music) album by Diana Krall performed with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. This is Krall's first full-length album of Christmas songs (not counting 1998's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas EP), and her first studio album with a big band. It is her ninth album overall. Billboard ranked album at number 14 on the magazine's Top Jazz Albums of the Decade.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) – 3:26
  2. "Let It Snow" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 4:02
  3. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 4:24
  4. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 3:15
  5. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Cannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) – 3:08
  6. "Christmas Time Is Here" (Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson) – 3:35
  7. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:54
  8. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 4:19
  9. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:32
  10. "What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?" (Frank Loesser) – 4:10
  11. "Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) – 3:26
  12. "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" (Irving Berlin) – 3:41

Personnel

The Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra:

Production

Charts and certifications

Album - Billboard

Year Chart Position
2005 Canadian Albums Chart
2
2005 Top Jazz Albums
1
Country Certification Sales/shipments
United States Gold 500,000

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
To Love Again: The Duets by Chris Botti		 U.S. Billboard Top Jazz Albums number-one album
November 19, 2005 – January 07, 2006		 Succeeded by
It's Time by Michael Bublé
Diana Krall
Studio albums
Live/Compilation albums
With others
Vince Benedetti: Heartdrops · Tony Bennett: "Alright, Okay, You Win" from Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues, "The Best Is Yet to Come" from Duets: An American Classic · Ray Brown: "I Thought About You" and "Little Boy" from Some of My Best Friends Are...Singers · Ray Charles: "You Don't Know Me" from Genius Loves Company · The Chieftains: "Danny Boy" from Tears of Stone, "Morning Has Broken" (with Art Garfunkel) from The Wide World Over · Rosemary Clooney: "The Boy from Ipanema" from Brazil · Natalie Cole: "Better Than Anything" from Ask a Woman Who Knows · Celine Dion: "Blue Christmas" from These Are Special Times · Charlie Haden and Quartet West: "Goodbye" from Sophisticated Ladies · Geoffrey Keezer: "The Nearness of You" from Turn Up the Quiet · Yo-Yo Ma: "You Couldn't Be Cuter" from Songs of Joy & Peace · Sarah McLachlan: "Christmas Time Is Here" from Wintersong · Anne Murray: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from Anne Murray's Christmas Album · Willie Nelson: "If I Had You" from American Classic, "Crazy" from Live and Kickin' · Barbra Streisand: Love Is the Answer (also producer) · Toots Thielemans: "La Vie en rose" from Chez Toots  · Various artists: "Dream a Little Dream of Me" from We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song
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