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Carla’s Christmas Carols | ECM 2712413

Carla’s Christmas Carols

Label: ECM

Cat No: 2712413

Barcode: 0602527124131

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 9th November 2009

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Contents

Artists

Carla Bley (piano, celeste)
Steve Swallow (bass, chimes)
Tobias Weidinger (trumpet, flugelhorn, glockenspiel)
Axel Schlosser (trumpet, flugelhorn, chimes)
Christine Chapman (horn)
Adrian Mears (trombone)
Ed Partyka (bass trombone, tuba)

Works

Adam, Adolphe

O Holy Night

Bley, Carla

Hell's Bells
Jesus Maria

Leontovich, Mykola Dmytrovich

Carol of the Bells

Mason, Lowell

Joy to the World

Murray, James R.

Away in a manger

Pierpont, James

Jingle Bells

Torme, Mel

The Christmas Song

Traditional

God rest ye merry, gentlemen
O Tannenbaum

Willis, Richard Storrs

It came upon the midnight clear

Artists

Carla Bley (piano, celeste)
Steve Swallow (bass, chimes)
Tobias Weidinger (trumpet, flugelhorn, glockenspiel)
Axel Schlosser (trumpet, flugelhorn, chimes)
Christine Chapman (horn)
Adrian Mears (trombone)
Ed Partyka (bass trombone, tuba)

About

Christmas music has been an enthusiasm of Carla Bley’s for decades, and traditional and non-traditional seasonal pieces are here subjected to her offbeat wit and idiosyncratic arranging skills. Selections include O Tannenbaum, Away in a Manger, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Jingle Bells, O Holy Night and Joy to the World, plus Mel Tormé’s Christmas Song and a brace of Carla’s own pieces – Jesus Maria (first recorded by Jimmy Giuffre back in 1961), and, giving the devil his due, Hell’s Bells. “Carla’s Christmas Carols” was recorded in La Buissonne Studios in the South of France after a whirlwind tour of Europe at the end of 2008, and folds in two pieces from that tour (recorded live in Berlin). The pleasure that the musicians find in the material is unmistakable and, perhaps particularly after a glass of mulled wine, contagious.

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