After the Storm VI: Christmas in New Orleans
Sleigh Bells will be ringing in New Orleans, and there will be plenty of great seasonal music as well. Plus, jazz writer and musicologist John Szwed talks about the Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress recordings.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Silent Night, Holy Night Allen Toussaint
A New Orleans Christmas, NYNO
No Room at the Inn Vera Hall
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
Last Month of the Year The Blind Boys of Alabama
Go Tell It on the Mountain, Real World
Santa's Second Line New Birth Brass Band
New Orleans Christmas, NYNO
O Day Georgia South Sea Island Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
Tryin' to Get Home Blind Gary Davis
Harlem Street Singer, Prestige/Bluesville
Instrumental: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Michael Doucet
Christmas Bayou, Swallow
J'ai vu le Loup, le Renard et la Belette The Balfa Brothers
Louisiana Spice: 25 Years of Louisiana Music on Rounder Records, Rounder
Winterlude Joe Ely
To: KATE, A Benefit for Kate's Sake, Western Beat
I Don't Just Want You for Christmas Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas
Must Be Santa, Rounder
Christmas is a Joyful Day Lord Executor
Where Will You Be Christmas Day, Dust-to-Digital
Christmas Feeling Ska Toots and the Maytals
Christmas Greetings from Studio One, Heartbeat
Instrumental: Silver Bells Papa Don Vappie's New Orleans Jazz Band
A Christmas Present, Vappielle
INTERVIEW: John Szwed on Jelly Roll Morton
There's No Place Like Home For the Holidays Leon Redbone
Christmas Island, Blue Thumb
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve
Merry Christmas Baby Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Billboard Greatest R&B Christmas Hits, Rhino
End Bed: Winter Wonderland Allen Toussaint
A New Orleans Christmas, NYNO
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: The First Noel John Fahey
The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album, Takoma
Christmas is A-Coming Leadbelly
What are You Doing Christmas Day, Dust-to-Digital
Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers
What are You Doing Christmas Day, Dust-to-Digital
Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks) Sacred Harp Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
Solomon's Seal, Reprise
Greensleeves John Coltrane
The Best of: His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse
Instrumental: Greensleeves Jimmy Smith
Christmas Cookin’, Verve
The Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced, MCA
Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas? The Staple Singers
MOJO Blue Christmas, MOJO
Three Angels Bob Dylan
New Morning, Columbia
O Little Town of Bethlehem Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve
I'll Be Home for Christmas The Pilgrim Travelers
Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics, Rhino
I'll Be Home for Christmas Diana Krall
Christmas Songs, Verve
Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby Amos Milburn
Billboard Greatest R&B Christmas Hits, Rhino
Instrumental: We Free Kings Roland Kirk
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve
We Three Kings of Orient Are John Fahey
The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album, Takoma
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear The Louvin Brothers
Hillbilly Holiday, Rhino
River Joni Mitchell
Blue, Reprise
Pretty Paper Willie Nelson
Pretty Paper, Columbia
White Christmas Otis Redding
The Original Soul Christmas, Rhino
End Beds: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) Duke Ellington
Three Suites, Columbia