Burn this even as a temporary relief from the swarm and storm of politics and global crisis as ever will make our modest contribution to the season with our Christmas Masonic hoping to spread a little joy and recall some of the pleasures and milestones of the past year but mainly I want to promote the traditional spirit of the time Deck the Halls fill the flowing bow let the good cheer roll and who better to lead the way than Bessie Smith inviting everybody to do their festive thing at the Christmas Ball. The great. The you. Are you. The are. The the. The the the the the. Oh. Yeah I want. 7 C to. Move there right now there are a bunch. Of. 0 2 oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh why do you do it but. Don't. Let go of. All over all over. Again I'd say. The same love floating. Instant joy instant party at any season that mighty man of power Jimmy N.C. Laying down his irresistible blues and boogie on list South Street breakdown from 391 more bite of the cherry from our Yancey show in October before that Strictly Come Bessie Smith letting it all hang out at the Christmas Ball in 1925 with her a team Joe Smith cornet Charlie big green trombone Fletcher Henderson piano details of all the tracks on the radio 3 website do send your festive e-mails to G.S. J. At B.B.C. Dot co dot U K And what would make the festivities complete well to some people Christmas isn't really Christmas unless the weather cooperates like the cozy images on cards and in the movies but is what he heard and points out that winter is little may be best enjoyed indoors. Whether. It is right. Or is there. And since we've no place to go. Let it snow let it snow let it snow. And I have wrong. Thing. Let it snow let it snow let it snow. When we finally it's good. I hate going out in the. But if you really hold me you gets all the way home I'll be at war with. You know me. And my dear worst goodbye. But as long as you love me as slow let it snow let it snow let it snow. With the bath. And through. The US the the. Yes. Yes. Yes yes. Yes. Slowly. And my dear the worst do the buying but as long as you love me solo let it smolder let it snow you live it's the the. That the so. That THAT 100-3000 3 as. What do you Herman delighting in the season from the comfy distance let it snow let it snow let it snow from 45 who would He's 1st heard in it's prime Neil have to write the nice chart with Sonny Berman trumpet and Bill Harris trombone snowy conditions may be all very well for folks tucked up by the fire but kids just want to be sure that Father Christmas can get through on his appointed bronze better not pout better not cry etc etc Santa Claus Is Coming To Town as proclaimed in a pop hit that became an unlikely Jazz Standard and a regular part of the repertoire of Bill Evans. From. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and if he turned his reindeer tard Greenwich Village you might have heard Bill Evans play that very tune in his regular gigs at the vanguard in the village gate and Evans recording dates from $63.00 comprising himself on piano Gary Peacock bass Paul Motian drums but as we heard in our program on that connoisseurs favorite surely horn not everybody liked playing in clubs surely found them too noisy and oblivious for her unique vocal and piano style she preferred concerts for audiences adored her and you could hear a pin drop and there is something wonderful about her winter wonderland. Me bills ring. Are you listening. In the name. No Liz glistening. Up to full sun would have. Walked in the winter wonderland. Garland. Is the blues. You do still. Do. You think the love song is we does not walk in the winter wonderland. If the meadow we can build a snow man. Pretend that this parson. He'll say I you married we'll say no man. When you aren't lay down. We'll conspire. As we dream. The fire. To face unafraid the plans let me look in the wings to Wonderland. Sleigh bells ring. Are you listening. In the only. Snow is glistening. A beautiful sight to happen tonight walking in the wind to wonder why Donnelly. The Blues. To stay. Is a new. He's singing the song of his leader. Walkin in a one to one delight. In the middle we can build a snowman. And pretend that he's a circus clown we'll have lots of fun with Mr Snow Man. Came down when it snows. The need to really. Blow your nose. Get the children. Will finally get to play the best good boy walk in knowing someone. Walked into one. Walking in the winter one. The rare musicality and intelligence of surely horn in 1996 Winter Wonderland the track I find I'm drawn to every Christmas because she's such a pleasure surely vocal Steven Scott piano Marc Whitfield guitar and on fool horn the late Roy Hargrove who died much too young in November after battling ill health for years Roy always sounded good as he does there and he could be fiery too as he showed in his Grammy award winning album Abana with his starry Cuban band Kriesel in Roy's memory here he and they are fizzing along on Mr Bruce by piano legend Chucho Valdes. With the. The late Roy Hargrove in blazing form on trumpet with his band Cree Seoul in 97 obvious Sanchez was the tenor player and the virtuoso pianist Chucho Valdes who also composed that pulsating original Mr Bruce a bit of Cuban spice for our Christmas Masonic and Jeffrey Smith jazz B.B.C. Radio 3 details of all the tracks on the radio 3 website where you can download an edited podcast of the show emails always welcome a-G.'s Jay at B.B.C. Dot co dot U.K. And so to Mr Buddy Buddy Rich who is the subject of an email following our drama hero show in March wondering how I could all Mitt traps the drum wonder from my list well not too long ago we gave buddy his own show and I thought I'd focus on drummers who had a specific influence on me but nobody can deny buddies mastery or his subtlety and wit in the scintillating trio records he made with Lester Young and Nat King Cole like I want to be happy. For. Our. 2 2 0. Oh oh. Oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh. Oh. Oh oh. Oh. 00000000 . 3 giants serving up a Christmas party piece I want to be happy with Lester Young tenor Nat King Cole piano Buddy Rich drums and 46 we've had a few seasonal Tunes today some of them seasonal by accident that is to say songs that musicians just want to play because of their musical quality and I'm sure that's true of our next track by John Coltrane train would be naturally drawn to Greensleeves because of his affinity for Walter's in a kind of modal 3 and somewhere over its long history it also acquired the lyrics that make it particularly in America a distinctive Carol What Child Is This. The When you John Coltrane's favorite things Greensleeves also known this time of year in some parts as What Child Is This trains 961 quartet comprised himself on soprano McCoy Tyner piano Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones bass and drums being English folk tradition also provided a melody that's become a kind of Christmas jazz perennial God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman which was a favorite of John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet our sister program Jazz record requests played a version by the M.J. Q earlier today and we can provide an orchestral contrast the symphonic arrangement John Lewis recorded with the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra featuring the great English baritone sax oftenest Ronnie Ross. 1 But the thing. With her. There's nothing. Like the thing. To the young. Hold. Hold. Hold. Hold hold hold a home. For 6 Busy the. 2 England's Carol variations on God rest ye merry gentlemen by John Lewis performed by the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra in 1958 and John conducted his solos by in Linz Ronnie Ross on baritone and Gerald fine Cup flute very grand very symphonic but a few weeks back we devoted a pair of programs to the work of a stellar jazz master who prefers his music with the pithy many sided and fun the trombone a strong bonus to Vic Dickinson Here he is with the madcap kindred spirit Leo Watson scabbing knows Jingle Bells why why. Why. Why. Why. Why. You're. Running out. The back of that by. The Ouch. That was that all right. I'm not all right. I hope that I have that I had my back back back back back back back back back fact. Fact. Fact. Back to. Back their marriage and a black man I think the exact thing is happening to thank. God thank you. Larry but I think back to back to LARRY. Larry back that I wrote. Jingle bells all over the place scattered scattered by the inimitable Leo Watson the man of a 1000 voices all of them surreal he was parted by the unflappable swing a victim consonant trombone and the pianist on that 9 $145.00 session was listed as one jelly roll Lipschitz who turns out to be that eminent ex-pat British critic Leonard Feather but at this time of year amid all those madly jingling bells we should certainly spare a thought for the mail carriers heaving the millions of cards and packages about the streets so for them a bit of whimsy in the best New Orleans style postman's lament. Happy. Days hard and. Trudge. Back home. Today. Those awesome pictures I hope I have. Down on there besides I was brass my weary I had old heartbreak because. Yes very good. Job on the banks an old Aussie safest. Route. New Orleans back in the day postman's lament by a band calling themselves papa Lane's children including Johnny wigs composer and trumpet Harry shields clarinet Tom Brown trombone Stanley Mendelssohn piano Surewood magic pain bass Dr Edmund Sushil guitar and vocal around 1953 details of all the tracks on the radio 3 website where you can download an edited podcast of the show emails pleased to G.S. J. At B.B.C. Dot co dot you say and that's almost it for our Christmas Miss Ellen 8 but I thought we'd go out with a track fully in the joyous Yuletide spirit which also pays homage to a great singer who left us in August of this year Aretha Franklin she goes back to her gospel roots was the old landmark lied in church in 1972 next week Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress but now goodnight and a very merry Christmas with a wreath of Franklin in ecstasy. Thank I'm John shy and welcome.