"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ramsey Lewis Trio – Merry Christmas Baby Continuing in our “Cool Yule” vein tonight with a contribution from The Ramsey Lewis Trio and a track from their 1961 album The Sounds Of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Dave Brubeck – The Christmas Song A nod to the late, great and much loved Dave Brubeck tonight and a cut from his 1996 A Dave Brubeck Christmas album. The perennial Christmas Song,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: kenny drew trio – season’s greetings – 05 – away in a manger I will go out on a limb tonight and say, even though there are no notes anywhere to claim otherwise,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 06-wynton_marsalis-o_christmas_tree Jumping into the more swinging side of Christmas Music. This one features Wynton Marsalis from his 2009 Christmas album, and a Traditional Jazz/Jam riff on O Christmas Tree. It jumps, and also…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Simon & Garfunkel – America – 1968 Taking a break from Non-traditional, or any kind of Christmas music tonight. When Simon & Garfunkel released America in 1968, it was a reflection on what were…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The dB’s – Home For The Holidays – 1987 Continuing our week-long dose of non-Traditional Christmas music with The dB’s. Here’s another band that was prominent in the 1980’s, but packed it all in until…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Leon Russell – Slipping Into Christmas – 1972 Leon Russell tonight. Okay – it’s that time of year again. And you are probably getting bombarded by Christmas music. Well . . .maybe…
I originally posted this track a couple years ago on my now-defunct Newstalgia site. I realize there are a bunch of you out there who are new to this site, never having heard of the old one, so all this…