Dave Brubeck - A Dave Brubeck Christmas
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A Dave Brubeck Christmas
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About Dave Brubeck - A Dave Brubeck Christmas
Dave Brubeck's moving liner notes to this 14-number assortment of solo jazz piano works are almost as good as his impressions of the standards and lesser-know Christmas music. Mixing jazz playing with classical flourishes and splashes of blues, Brubeck deftly expands the sound of Christmas. You'll never hear a "Silent Night" like Brubeck's as the glistening introduction leads to a powerful meditation on the melody. And for sheer fun, there are his swinging opening numbers, "'Homecoming' Jingle Bells" and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." There's magic and majesty in the ivories as he renders "Cantos para Pedir las Posadas," "To Us Is Given," and "Run, Run, Run to Bethlehem." --Martin Keller Amazon.com
Tracks
- "Homecoming" Jingle Bells - Dave Brubeck, Pierpont, J.S.
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Dave Brubeck, Coots, J. Fred
- Joy to the World - Dave Brubeck, Mason, Lowell
- Away in a Manger - Dave Brubeck, Traditional
- Winter Wonderland - Dave Brubeck, Bernard, Felix
- O Little Town of Bethlehem - Dave Brubeck, Brooks, Phillip
- What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) - Dave Brubeck, Dix, William Chatte
- To Us Is Given - Dave Brubeck, Brubeck, Dave
- O Tannenbaum - Dave Brubeck, Traditional
- Silent Night - Dave Brubeck, Gruber, Franz
- Cantos Para Pedir las Posadas - Dave Brubeck, Traditional
- Run, Run, Run to Bethlehem - Dave Brubeck, Brubeck, Dave
- "Farewell" Jingle Bells - Dave Brubeck, Pierpont, J.S.
- The Christmas Song - Dave Brubeck, Wells, Robert [1]
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User Reviews
Average user review: 
(14 reviews)
 |  | Decent music -- awful engineering |  |
Pretty good solo piano Christmas music.
The CD, however, is horribly mastered/engineered. All the tracks are FAR too quiet. If you rip it onto a PC and normalize it to a decent level, it will sound dramatically better.
December 20, 2008| | | Not quite as good as expected | |
Enjoyable but not as jazzy as I expected. I understand why after reading the liner notes--Brubeck wanted to do a Christmas album from music he loved as a child, with the whole family around a piano in the parlor. An old-fashioned Christmas.
January 3, 2008I love Dave Brubeck's music but this CD didn't do it for me. Sorry Dave, not one of your better works.
December 28, 2007Lovely soothing solo piano Christmas music. Perfect for night time or during dinner. A must have.
January 11, 2007This album was OK, not quite what I expected. If you are a big Dave Brubeck fan, I guess it would be an ok buy. There are other Christmas jazz albums that I purchased that I thought were better.
January 5, 2007More reviews at Amazon.com ...
