Crescent City Christmas Card

Crescent City Christmas Card
Crescent City Christmas Card
Studio album by Wynton Marsalis
Released	October 3, 1989
Recorded	January 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989
Studio	RCA Recording Studios, New York City
Genre	Christmas, jazz
Length	55:33
Label	Columbia
Producer	Steven Epstein, George Butler
Wynton Marsalis chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[1]

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.^[2]

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 clarinet, baritone saxophone
Wycliffe Gordon – trombone
Marcus Roberts – piano
Reginald Veal – bass
Ben Riley – drums
Herlin Riley – drums

Technical

Steven Epstein – producer
George Butler – executive producer, producer
Dennis Ferrante – engineer
Tim Geelan – engineer
Stanley Crouch – liner notes

Credits adapted from AllMusic.^[3]

References

^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 953. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Yanow, Scott. "Crescent City Christmas Card". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
^ "Crescent City Christmas Card - Wynton Marsalis | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 March 2017.

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[Penguin-1] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 953. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[Yanow-2] Yanow, Scott. "Crescent City Christmas Card". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 September 2018.

[AM_credits-3] "Crescent City Christmas Card - Wynton Marsalis | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 March 2017.

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