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Bley, Carla - Carla's Christmas Carols

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Ahh, Christmas. That special time when the air is filled with...a lot of really bad music. There are so few good Christmas albums that a half decent one is a surprise - and this is a great one by a great artist. Along with John Fahey's Christmas albums, this is the only Christmas album I will ever choose to listen to (not the same as 'have to listen to because my wife is playing one'). "Christmas music has been an enthusiasm of Carla Bley's for decades, and both traditional and non-traditional seasonal pieces are here subjected to her offbeat wit and idiosyncratic arranging skills. The material includes her inimitable arrangements of Christmas classics 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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