This album reconstructs Christmas songs with their unique urban flair.
While maintaining their style of freely moving between jazz, pop, and swing, the album features classic festive tunes colored with a refined and warm sound.
With meticulously layered choruses, light rhythms, and expressive singing that sometimes swings and sometimes softly sings, the album is never old-fashioned, and instead is imbued with the modern, sophisticated atmosphere that is characteristic of Manhattan Transfer.
11 TRACKS:
1)
Snowfall
2)
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
3)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town / Santa Man (Medley)
4)
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
5)
Silent Night, Holy Night
6)
Caroling, Caroling
7)
Happy Holiday / The Holiday Season (Medley)
8)
A Christmas Love Song
9)
It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
10)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
11)
Goodnight
Recorded By [Vocals] - Dave Reitzas
Choir [Children's] - Susan Stevens
Trumpet - Charlie Davis
Engineer [Assistant] - Eric Rudd
Mixed By - Hank Cicalo
Recorded By [Orchestra] - Al Schmitt
Reeds, Saxophone - Pete Christlieb
Producer - Tim Hauser
Vocals - Tim Hauser
Keyboards - Ian Underwood
Trumpet - Harry Edison
Arranged By [Orchestra] - Johnny Mandel
Producer - Johnny Mandel
Bass - Art Davis
Cello - Larry Corbett
Percussion - Larry Bunker
Violin - John Wittenberg
Guitar - John Pisano
Reeds, Saxophone - Jack Nimitz
Trumpet - Oscar Brashear
Violin - Joel Derouin
Reeds, Saxophone - Bob Cooper
Harp - Gayle Levant
Trumpet - Chuck Findley
Trombone - Dick Nash
Contractor [Orchestra] - Jules Chaikin
Percussion, Drums - Sol Gubin
Bass - Jim Hughart
Cello - Suzie Katayama
Copyist [Supervising] - Suzie Katayama
Violin - Peter Kent (2)
Trombone - George Bohanon
Violin - Gordon Marron
Cello - Ray Kelley
Reeds, Saxophone - Jon Clarke
Mastered By - Bernie Grundman
Bass - Chuck Domanico
Reeds, Saxophone - Bob Tricarico
Reeds, Saxophone - Marshall Royal
Trumpet - Warren Luening
French Horn - Rick Todd
Concertmaster - Gerald Vinci
Violin - Gerald Vinci
Bass - Buell Neidlinger
Cello - Fred Seykora
Viola - Roland Kato
Violin - Arnold Belnick
Violin - Henry Ferber
Viola - Peter Hatch
Reeds, Saxophone - Gary Foster
Trumpet - Rick Baptist
Drums - Ralph Humphrey
Reeds, Saxophone - Ronnie Lang
Keyboards - Randy Kerber
Violin - Leslie Woodbury
Trombone - Charles Loper
Violin - Assa Drori
Viola - Marilyn Baker
Violin - Shari Zippert
Viola - Sam Boghossian
Violin - Haim Shtrum
A&R - Jay Landers
Violin - Diana Halprin
French Horn - Brad Warnaar
Violin - Don Palmer
Trumpet - Bobby Shew
Choir [Children's] - Sally Stevens
Directed By [Children's Choir] - Sally Stevens (5, 9)
Cello - Ernie Ehrhardt
Violin - Mary Tsumura
Conductor [Orchestra] - Eddie Karam
Cello - David Shamban
Harp - Amy Shulman
Reeds, Saxophone - Steve Kujala
Vocals - Cheryl Bentyne
Vocals - Alan Paul
Reeds, Saxophone - Jim Walker
Trombone - Bill Reichenbach (2)
Violin - Ron Clark
Reeds, Saxophone - Dick Mitchell
Violin - Brian Leonard
Vocals - Janis Siegel
Choir [Children's] - Bobbi Page
Coordinator [Production] - Ivy Skoff
Harp - Carol Robbins
Viola - Michael Nowak
Violin - Bob Sushel
Trombone - Chauncey Welsch
Reeds, Saxophone - Don Shelton (2)
Percussion - Dan Greco
Violin - Joe Goodman
Viola - Linda Lipsett
Viola - Herschel Wise
Violin - Isabelle Daskoff
Viola - Margot MacLaine
Art Direction - Nancy Donald
Violin - Debra Price
Viola - Ken Burward-Hoy
Choir [Children's] - Quincy McCrary
French Horn - Marni Johnson
Violin - Marc Sazer
Violin - Lissy Wilson
Bass - Anne Atkinson
Cello - Anne Karam
Cello - Igor Horoshevsky
Executive Producer - Robin Urdang
Bass - Margaret Storer
French Horn - Jeff De Rosa
Choir [Children's] - Jonathan Redford
Choir [Children's] - Josh Weiner
Photography By - Diego Uchitel
Choir [Children's] - Jason Kaleb Henley
Choir [Children's] - Joseph Bwarie
Choir [Children's] - Nicolas Nackley
Choir [Children's] - Marc Schillinger
Choir [Children's] - Marc Smollin
Engineer [Additional], Engineer [Assistant] - Keith Kresgy
