Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas

by Kenny Burrell

Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Cadet
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:57
  • Community rating: 2.96/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas' adapts seasonal repertoire through Kenny Burrell's blues-informed jazz guitar language. The album fits the 1960s market for holiday LPs while giving the material a small-combo soul-jazz and easy-listening character.

Genres

Descriptors: christmas, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. The Little Drummer Boy (3:32)
  2. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (3:22)
  3. My Favorite Things (3:25)
  4. Away In A Manger (3:00)
  5. Mary's Little Boy Chile (2:25)
  6. White Christmas (3:07)
  7. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (3:50)
  8. The Christmas Song (3:00)
  9. Go Where I Send Thee (3:06)
  10. Silent Night (2:38)
  11. Twelve Days Of Christmas (2:11)
  12. Merry Christmas Baby (3:21)

Credits

  • Kenny Burrell - primary artist, arranged by
  • Cleveland Eaton - bass
  • Richard Evans - conductor, arranged by
  • Morris Jennings - drums
  • Charles Stepney - piano
  • Harry Simeone - written-by
  • Henry Onorati - written-by
  • Katherine K. Davis - written-by

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