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Ahmad Jamal Trio — Snowfall
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The Bloody Olive, Directed by Vincent Bal — Belgium, 1996
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film and the Canal + Belgique Award at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, 1998
When I was five years old, I would go with my mother to midtown Manhattan, and there’d be a bearded Santa Claus ringing a bell. And then we’d go back downtown, and I’d see another Santa — but this time a skinny one. I think that’s what tipped me off. If you’re living in a small town or suburb, I suppose there’s just one Santa in the shopping mall. But for a city kid, once he notices that there is more than one Santa, he starts to wonder: Who’s the real one?
(Source: newyorker.com, via newyorker)
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Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (If You Want It)
John & Yoko
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I never went in for afterglow /
or candlelight on the mistletoe /
but now when you turn the lamp down low…
I’m Beginning to See the Light — Joe Williams and Count Basie
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John Coltrane Quintet — Greensleeves
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White Christmas — Charlie Parker, alto, Kenny Dorham, trumpet, Al Haig, piano, Tommy Potter, bass, Max Roach, drums; recorded in New York, December 25, 1948
“Two turtle doves (an indecisive species; are they turtles or doves?) happened to perch one Christmas night at Manhattan’s Royal Roost, a 1940s jazz joint known to aficionados as the Metropolitan Bopera House. Having satisfied themselves that ‘Roost’ referenced fried chicken, with neither turtles nor doves on the menu, the turtle doves cooed politely at the emcee’s joking introduction of ‘White Christmas’ as a turkey that a magician promisingly named Bird would raise from the dead. Sure enough, the sublimely sax-tooting Bird soon had Irving Berlin’s terminally overdone song trotting about like a gobbler Lazarus. Talk about miracles of Christmas!” (jazz.com)
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William Bell — Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday
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Slim Gaillard — It’s Gettin’ Kinda Chilly
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet — We Free Kings
