Songs of Joy & Peace – Yo-Yo Ma & Friends
December 15, 2008
Just imagine a party hat celebrates the universal hopes, dreams and joy animating seasonal festivals the all over the world. Whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid al-Adha and New Being. That is what brought Yo-Yo Ma together with a remarkable group of friends to make Songs Of Joy & Peace. This album is Yo-Yo Ma’s hope that everyone who listens will hear a song familiar, comfortable and beloved to them as well as learn and fall in like with music that is groundbreaking new. [Read more]
Christmas by Al Jarreau
December 6, 2008
Al Jarreau has become a master of both studio and stage after signing with Reprise in 1975. He is one of the most exciting and analytically acclaimed performers of our time. Now, He releases his first holiday collection and first album of newly recorded music since 2006’s Givin’ It Up. Christmas includes the singer’s disctinctive vocal spin on a dozen yuletide classics.
Tony Bennett – A Swingin’ Christmas
November 16, 2008
Swingin’ Christmas featuring the Count Basie Huge Band. Tony Bennett has 15 Grammy Awards along with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
‘Tony Bennett is among the most recognized human beings on the earth.’ –Vanity Honest.
The album tracks are ‘The Christmas Song’, ‘Have Yourself A Merry Small Christmas’, ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas, ‘Winter Wonderland’, ‘Santa Claus Is Coming to Town’, ‘Christmas Time is Here’, ‘My Pet Things’, ‘The Christmas Waltz’, ‘Christmas Auld Lang Syne’, ‘Silver Bells’ and ‘Christmas Tree’. [Read more]
Brian McKnight – I’ll Be Home for Christmas
November 16, 2008
Christmas cheer run over with McKnight’s first right holiday collection featuring all of your pet Christmas classics and three new McKnight holiday originals. Presented in that smokey R&B mold that McKnight does so well; McKnight’s prominent vocal prowess will certainly make this the most wonderful time of the year! As an extra special bonus, Josh Groban, Rascal Flatts and Babyface also make guest appearances on the album. McKnight’s visibility will be growing around the holiday season and into 2009. Already a household as a result of his hits, a stint in Chicago on Broadway, and his own radio show. [Read more]
Sarah Brightman – A Winter Symphony
November 16, 2008
If you like Sarah Brightman, you’ll probably like this CD. It has her signature operatic voice that is so catchy. For fans of Christmas music, but, I’d look elsewhere if you’re looking for rockin’ around the tree or being holly and jolly. The album ain’t kidding when it says Winter, every song has an icy, cold, snowblown, 10 below kinda feel – without the aid of a roaring fire or hot cocoa.
I celebrate Winter just as much as Christmas and can appreciate this album, but it’s not my pet, and I can definately be with you Christmas shoppers being turned off by the depressing music. I reckon it is a worthy album, though, and should probably be in your winter CD collection.
– Discodan
Enya – And Winter Came
November 16, 2008
Twenty being after her landmark Watermark album, Enya’s seventh studio disc, And Winter Came continues a astonishingly successful career that has included more than 70 million albums sold worldwide. And Winter Came is an enchanting evocation of the changing landscape of winter as well as the festive cheer of the holidays. One of the most successful female artists of all-time, and following only to U2 as the largest selling Irish artist in history, Enya brings her beguiling and ethereal music to bear on the darkest and yet most hopeful season with And Winter Came. [Read more]

