Crescent City Christmas Card

1989 studio album by Wynton Marsalis

Studio album by

Wynton Marsalis

Released

October 3, 1989 (1989-10-03)

Recorded

January 24–25 and April 3–4, 1989

Studio

RCA Recording Studios, New York City

Genre

Christmas, jazz

Length

55:33

Label

Columbia

Producer

Steven Epstein, George Butler

Wynton Marsalis chronology

The Majesty of the Blues
(1989)

Crescent City Christmas Card
(1989)

Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance
(1990)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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]

Track listing

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

Personnel

Wynton Marsalis – trumpet, narrator, arranger
Kathleen Battle – vocals
Jon Hendricks – vocals
Wessell Anderson – alto saxophone
Todd Williams – clarinet, soprano, saxophone, tenor saxophone
Alvin Batiste – clarinet
Joe Temperley – bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Wycliffe Gordon – trombone
Marcus Roberts – piano
Reginald Veal – bass
Ben Riley – drums
Herlin Riley – drums

Technical

Steven Epstein – producer
George Butler – executive producer, producer
Dennis Ferrante – engineer
Tim Geelan – engineer
Stanley Crouch – liner notes

Credits adapted from AllMusic.^[3]

References

^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 953. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Yanow, Scott. "Crescent City Christmas Card". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
^ "Crescent City Christmas Card - Wynton Marsalis | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 March 2017.