Jimmy McGriff - Christmas with Jimmy McGriff (1996)

Genre: Soul Jazz, Christmas, Hard Bop, Jazz-Funk
Release Date: 1964 (Lp) (as Christmas With McGriff — Sue Records)
Reisue Release Date: Sep 24, 1996
Label: Distributed by Collectables Records COL 5747
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Tracks info:
1. White Christmas
2. Christmas With McGriff
3. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
4. Hip Santa
5. Winter Wonderland
6. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
7. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
8. Jingle Bells

Personel info:
Larry Frazier Guitar (Rhythm)
Ira Howard Liner Notes
Rudolph Johnson Saxophone
Jimmy McGriff Organ

Продолжение текста / More text
About albume — from booklet:

JIMMY McGRIFF — Christmas With McGriff: Collectables 5747
The real pleasures in life can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The feeling of enjoyment or delight is a pleasure in itself. So often, however, these gratifying experiences are either so swift or commonplace that we tend to overlook them and the important roles they play in our daily lives. The ability to retain the smallest of satisfactions can count heavily as a stabilizing factor, during later periods of frustration or sadness. For some, fond memories of children at play are as helpfully tranquilizing, in effect, as amassed fortunes are for others.
Fortunately, there are several holidays each year that are so overwhelming in meaning that we are forced to stop and do some deep thinking. During the Christmas season, when the snow sifts slowly over the land and the cold days are warmed by good feeling, we are afforded our best opportunity to pause, reflect and appreciate. We who do, derive our lasting pleasure from either (or both) the quiet reverence of the holiday's original significance or the festive, joyful exuberance with which it is now greeted. This of course, can apply to our tastes in music, which plays such an important role in the celebration of Christmas.
It is a special brand of music that we employ each Yuletide to recover moments of fruition that have fleeted by. Each year artists supply us with -this special material which like them, is both old and new. Each year the gamut of religious inspirationals — to popular ballads — to kiddie novelties is run and, each year cries of overcommercialization and overabundance ring out. However, it's well worth our time and effort if but one good new tune, delivered with good taste, rises above the multitude of mediocrity.
Organist Jimmy McGriff and his trio of accompanists, saxophonist Rudolph Johnson, rhythm guitarist Larry Frazier and drummer Willie "Saint" Jenkins, have happily supplied us with the best of the aforementioned elements necessary for appreciation at Christmastime. And, most important, they have done so with good, jazz-oriented taste. This, their first seasonal offering, is a bright, rhythmic approach to a choice collection of pop and novelty standouts. On the pop end, they offer a driving new interpretation of the classic "White Christmas" and an intriguingly slow revamping of the charming "Winter Wonderland". On the novelty side, they contagiously amble over "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," fingersnap their way through a frisky reading of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," take a toe-tapping, low-keyed ride with "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" and rock with a bossa nova flavor on "Jingle Bells". In addition, there are two McGriff originals, which can go on to assume yearly importance: the solid rhythmic twister, "Hip Santa", and the captivating "Christmas With McGriff, which picks up steam along the way.
Organs, chimes, sleigh bells, etc. have become synonymous with Christmas. With organist McGriff leading the way we find it an enjoyable, easy task, taking time out for a pause that refreshes our memory. This Christmas (as well as future ones), one more attractive package should rise head and shoulders above the deluge. It's the result of an outstanding pop-jazz contribution by Jimmy McGriff and Co.
—Ira Howard, Editor, CASH BOX Magazine


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