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Guest artists include: Paul "Pazzo" Mehling: solo guitar, baritone guitar, vocals; Clint Baker: string bass, trumpet; Evan "Zeppo" Price: violin, octave violin (acoustic and electric); Jeff Magidson: rhythm guitar, bass, vocal; Jason "Jubilation" Vanderford: rhythm guitar. Guests: Isabelle Fontaine, The Cool Yule Philharmonic, Pazzo and the Hotheads, Le Jazz Hot Trio, Duo Gadjo, The Ivory Club Boys, the Cool Yule Philharmonic All-Stars.
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Gypsy swing meets holiday cheer, with an amiable side helping of schmaltz. The Hot Club of San Francisco, an accomplished band in this vein, welcomes a handful of likeminded guests to the party here, including the Ivory Club Boys (who help
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jazz up a section of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite”) and Le Jazz Hot Trio (who sit in on “The Christmas Song”). Among the other effortless successes: “Don Rodolfo,” a sultry, minor key recasting of that red-nosed reindeer tune.
Nate Chinen -
New York Times - Holiday Music CDs
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Works on This Recording
1.
Cool Yule by Louis Armstrong
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
2.
Don Rodolfo by Hot Club of San Francisco
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: 21st Century
Written: USA
Notes: Based on "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Johnny Marks and the "Habanera" from "Carmen" by Georges Bizet.
3.
Carol of the Bells by Traditional
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Written: Ukraine
4.
I'll be home for Christmas by Walter Kent
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
5.
Neptune's Daughter: Baby, It's Cold Outside by Frank Loesser
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1948; Los Angeles, Califor
6.
Djingle Bells by Hot Club of San Francisco
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: 21st Century
Written: USA
Notes: Based on "Jingle Bells" by James Pierpont and the style of Django Reinhardt.
7.
Sugar Rum Cherry by Hot Club of San Francisco
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco,
Ivory Club Boys
Period: 21st Century
Written: USA
Notes: Based on music from the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky.
8.
I wonder as I wander by John Jacob Niles
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
9.
Babes in Toyland: March of the Toy Soldiers by Victor Herbert
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903; USA
10.
The Christmas Song by Mel Torme
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco,
Le Jazz Hot Trio
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1946
11.
Santa Claus is comin' to town by John Frederic Coots
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1934; USA
12.
Auld lang syne by Robert Burns
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Hot Club of San Francisco
Period: Classical
Written: 18th Century; Scotland
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