O Come All Ye Faithful & Advent Jazz

Joey Alexander (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass), Eric Harland (drums).

I Saw Three Ships & Advent Music

English traditional, arranged by Simon Preston, performed by the choir at King’s College, Cambridge.

The Little Drummer Boy & Johnny Cash

O Holy Night & Mariah Carey

It’s like a Christmas tradition around here.

Holiday Reblog & Swingle Singers & Christmas Medley

The incomparable Swingle Singers, with a long Medley from their album Noels Sans Passeport (1968) (Hey, I figured out what that means!) and the “White Christmas” with words at the end is from The Story of Christmas (1998).

Jingle Bells, El Noi De La Mare, Hanej – Nynej – Jezisku, Canzone Dei Zampognari, Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes, Oh Tannenbaum, La Peregrinacion, Go Tell It On the Mountain, Away In A Manger, White Christmas (without words), White Christmas (with words).

Advent Music & We Three Kings & Miles Davis

Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Three Wise Men (1925)

Miles Davis on Late Night with David Letterman, NBC (1987).

Miles Davis (trumpet), Marcus Miller (bass), David Sanborn (sax), with Paul Shaffer (keyboards, Late Night Orchestra leader).