The Christmas Concert

Release Date: 25th Apr 2008
Catalogue No: STS006
Label: Spartacus
Length: 73 minutes

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Bernard Felix, Smith Dick: Winter Wonderland

Work length4:54

Tommy Smith Quartet

God Rest, Ye Merry Gentleman

Work length10:37

Tommy Smith Quartet

Gruber Franz Xaver, Mohr Joseph: Silent Night

Work length9:39

Tommy Smith Quartet

Burns Robert, Reader Eddi: Auld Lang Syne

Work length7:30

Tommy Smith Quartet

Gannon Kim, Kent Walter, Ram Buck: I'll Be Home for Christmas

Work length6:25

Tommy Smith Quartet

Parker Alice, Shaw Robert Lawson: The Holly and the Ivy

Work length11:24

Tommy Smith Quartet

Have Yourself a Merry Christmas

Work length7:26

Tommy Smith Quartet

Hopkins John Henry Jr: We Three Kings

Work length12:40

Tommy Smith Quartet

Torme Melvin H, Wells Robert: The Christmas Song

Work length2:54

Tommy Smith Quartet

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Tommy Smith, Scotland's premier jazz saxophonist has made a serious jazz album which takes the basic material of familiar Christmas staples and builds them into much more elaborate harmonic structures. Smith's excellent quartet is a working band rather than an ad hoc gathering, and this is obvious in the tight-knit empathy of their ensemble playing. The rich harmonies and shifting time signatures of the music keep everyone on their toes and make rewarding launching pads for solo improvisation. Slow tunes such as "Silent Night" or "I'll be Home for Christmas" provide further evidence of what a lyrical and expressive ballad player the saxophonist now is. And, the players dig deeply into the uptempo material, transforming chestnuts such as "We Three Kings" into inventive and swinging jazz excursions. Personnel: Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone), Gareth Williams (piano), Orlando le Fleming (bass), Sebastiaan de Krom (drums)

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