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Shorty Rogers
Night Lights‘ annual holiday tribute celebrates the season with plenty of cool-Yule jazz, including:
- Shorty Rogers‘ take on The Nutcracker
- Pianist Bill Evans having some vocal fun with “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (as well as the backstory on how the song came to be written)
- Guitarist Emily Remler‘s luminous version of “Snowfall”
- Horace Silver and singer Andy Bey doing Silver’s “Peace”
- Poet Sascha Feinstein reading his poem about the legendary Miles Davis-Thelonious Monk Christmas Eve 1954 recording session.
For More Holiday Fun…
• Listen to Night Lights holiday outtakes: hipster comedian Lord Buckley‘s version of “A Christmas Carol”:
Music Heard On This Episode
Greensleeves
John Coltrane — Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (Impulse/GRP, 1997)
