Crescent City Christmas Card

Crescent City Christmas Card
Crescent City Christmas Card
Studio album by Wynton Marsalis
Released	October 3, 1989
Recorded	January 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989
Studio	RCA, New York City
Genre	Christmas, jazz
Length	55:33
Label	Columbia
Producer	Steven Epstein, George Butler
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ReleasedOctober 3, 1989

RecordedJanuary 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989

StudioRCA, New York City

GenreChristmas, jazz

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[1]

Crescent City Christmas Card is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1989. The album reached a peak position of number fourteen on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.^[2]

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Carol of the Bells"	Mykola Leontovych/Traditional	4:56
2.	"Silent Night"	Franz Grüber, Joseph Mohr	4:47
3.	"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"	Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley	3:09
4.	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone	5:29
5.	"We Three Kings"	John Henry Hopkins Jr.	5:22
6.	"O Tannenbaum"	Traditional	1:39
7.	"Sleigh Ride"	Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish	4:29
8.	"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"	Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne	4:20
9.	"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"	Traditional	5:43
10.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith	2:55
11.	"Jingle Bells"	James Lord Pierpont	3:23
12.	"O Come All Ye Faithful"	Frederick Oakeley, John Reading, John Francis Wade	1:37
13.	"'Twas the Night Before Christmas"	Clement Clarke Moore/Traditional	8:07

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Albums	Wynton Marsalis (1981) Think of One (1983) Haydn, Hummel, L. Mozart: Trumpet Concertos (1983) Hot House Flowers (1984) Black Codes (From the Underground) (1985) J Mood (1985) Live at Blues Alley (1986) Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. I (1987) The Majesty of the Blues (1989) Crescent City Christmas Card (1989) Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance (1990) Thick in the South: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 1 (1991) Uptown Ruler: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 2 (1991) Levee Low Moan: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 3 (1991) Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling (1991) Citi Movement (Griot New York) (1992) In This House, On This Morning (1994) Joe Cool's Blues (1995) Blood on the Fields (1997) Standard Time, Vol. 5: The Midnight Blues (1998) Reeltime (1999) Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord (1999) Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk (1999) The Marciac Suite (2000) The Magic Hour (2004) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) Live at the House of Tribes (2005) From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2007) Two Men with the Blues (2008) He and She (2009) Christmas Jazz Jam (2009) Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles (2011)
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