The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra's new album is called Christmas Time Is Here. There's a certain intensity of spirit in jazz and improvised music, to the point where it occasionally aligns with religious ...

Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s default soundtrack. These albums mix lush orchestration, crooner warmth, ...

The relationship between the secular Christmas music that emerged in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, and jazz is that both drew heavily from the same source—the Broadway songbook—for the same ...

Before Mariah Carey took possession of the holiday airwaves with “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” songs by the great American songwriters dominated the Christmas season. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, ...

It’s a hip record. Forget the seasonal-only listening, as The Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts” classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is and forever will be great listening ...

Every December, the world turns into a giant snow globe, holiday albums suddenly hold more power than politicians, setting moods, and creating memories. And the list below not just shaped the culture ...

We aren’t really sure why Christmas music is so controversial. Maybe it is its unrelenting ubiquity from Thanksgiving through the end of the year. It could be some of the overplayed, hideous songs ...

The Scranton Jazz Festival Christmas Spectacular will be presented Sunday, Dec. 7, at Scranton Preparatory School, 1000 Wyoming Ave., Scranton. Doors open at 5 p.m., with the show starting at 5:30.

Some Christmas records do more than soundtrack the season, they reset the whole mood the second the needle drops. The ’50s and ’60s were packed with those kinds of albums, and plenty of them still ...