Crescent City Christmas Card

Studio album by Wynton Marsalis

Released

October 3, 1989

Recorded

January 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989

Genre

Christmas, jazz

Length

55:33

Label

Columbia

Producer

Steven Epstein, George Butler

Wynton Marsalis chronology

The Majesty of the Blues
(1989)

Crescent City Christmas Card
(1989)

Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance
(1990)

Crescent City Christmas Card is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1989. The album reached a peak position of number fourteen on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Carol of the Bells"	Mykola Leontovych/Traditional	4:56
2.	"Silent Night"	Franz Grüber/Joseph Mohr	4:47
3.	"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"	Felix Mendelssohn/Charles Wesley	3:09
4.	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine Davis/Henry Onorati/Harry Simeone	5:29
5.	"We Three Kings"	John Henry Hopkins Jr.	5:22
6.	"O Tannenbaum"	Traditional	1:39
7.	"Sleigh Ride"	Leroy Anderson/Mitchell Parish	4:29
8.	"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"	Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne	4:20
9.	"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"	Traditional	5:43
10.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard/Richard B. Smith	2:55
11.	"Jingle Bells"	James Lord Pierpont	3:23
12.	"O Come All Ye Faithful"	Frederick Oakeley/John Reading/John Francis Wade	1:37
13.	"'Twas the Night Before Christmas"	Clement Clarke Moore/Traditional	8:07

Personnel

Wynton Marsalis – trumpet, narrator, arranger
Kathleen Battle – vocals
Jon Hendricks – vocals
Wessell Anderson – alto saxophone
Todd Williams – clarinet, soprano, saxophone, tenor saxophone
Alvin Batiste – clarinet
Joe Temperley – bass clarine, baritone saxophone
Wycliffe Gordon – trombone
Marcus Roberts – piano
Reginald Veal – bass
Ben Riley – drums
Herlin Riley – drums
Steven Epstein – producer
George Butler – executive producer, producer
Dennis Ferrante – engineer
Tim Geelan – engineer
Stanley Crouch – liner notes

Credits adapted from AllMusic.^[2]

References

↑ "Crescent City Christmas Card". AllMusic.
↑ "Crescent City Christmas Card - Wynton Marsalis | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 March 2017.

Wynton Marsalis

Albums

Wynton Marsalis (1981)
Think of One (1983)
Hot House Flowers (1984)
Black Codes (From the Underground) (1985)
J Mood (1985)
Live at Blues Alley (1986)
Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. I (1987)
The Majesty of the Blues (1989)
Crescent City Christmas Card (1989)
Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance (1990)
Thick in the South: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 1 (1991)
Uptown Ruler: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 2 (1991)
Levee Low Moan: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 3 (1991)
Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling (1991)
Citi Movement (Griot New York) (1992)
In This House, On This Morning (1994)
Joe Cool's Blues (1995)
Blood on the Fields (1997)
Standard Time, Vol. 5: The Midnight Blues (1998)
Reeltime (1999)
Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord (1999)
Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk (1999)
The Magic Hour (2004)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Live at the House of Tribes (2005)
From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2007)
Two Men with the Blues (2008)
He and She (2009)
Christmas Jazz Jam (2009)
Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles (2011)

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