The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra's new album is called Christmas Time Is Here. There's a certain intensity of spirit in jazz and improvised music, to the point where it occasionally aligns with religious ...

Some Christmas records do more than soundtrack the season, they reset the whole mood the second the needle drops. The ’50s and ’60s were packed with those kinds of albums, and plenty of them still ...

The relationship between the secular Christmas music that emerged in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, and jazz is that both drew heavily from the same source—the Broadway songbook—for the same ...

Every December, the world turns into a giant snow globe, holiday albums suddenly hold more power than politicians, setting moods, and creating memories. And the list below not just shaped the culture ...

Before Mariah Carey took possession of the holiday airwaves with “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” songs by the great American songwriters dominated the Christmas season. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, ...

Kansas City jazz pianist Tim Whitmer is out with a new record for the second year in a row — and this time, he is hoping his music spreads holiday cheer. The album "Happy Holidays" features Whitmer's ...

Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s default soundtrack. These albums mix lush orchestration, crooner warmth, ...