This is a podcast of music for the winter holidays: Christmas, New Year’s, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Hanukkah (or Chanukkah), Las Posadas, Mardi Gras, Lohri, Diwalis, Epiphany, etc. Most of it is jazz or pretty close to jazz.
If you’re looking for familiar Christmas music by which to decorate your tree, this probably isn’t the podcast for you. But next week’s might be.
The highlight of the program? I think it’s saxophonist Samy Thiebault and his composition called ‘Diwali’. But there’s lots of other great music too…..some of it pretty high energy.
what’s next? how about the next project?
Next project? I’ve had a few Christmas oriented Discovering Jazz programs since, but I think it would be a great idea to have another episode on ‘holiday jazz’—where a number of major holidays are included. Any ideas of jazz oriented recordings I could use for such an episode?
-Larry