ANDY CIRZAN - SWINGIN' SNOWFLAKES

12/20/2011

SIDE A
Jingle Bells - Urbie Green & His All-Stars
Winter Wonderland - Chet Baker Quartet
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Don Patterson Trio (w/ Pat Martino)
Christmas Song Pt II - Sonny Stitt
White Christmas (Live Xmas Day 1948) - Charlie Parker (w/ Kenny Dorham & Max Roach)
Swingin' For Christmas - Gene Ammons
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Paul Bley Trio (w/ Charles Mingus & Art Blakey)

SIDE B
Sleigh Ride - Herb Geller Quartet
Winter Sequence: Suite for Rhythmic Reindeer - Leonard Feather (w/ Ralph Burns)
1) Dasher - featuring Herbie Mann
2) Prancer - featuring Ralph Burns
3) Blitzen - featuring Joe Wilder
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Bill Evans Trio
Dashing Through The Snow - Duke Ellington Orchestra

Andy Cirzan's annual mix is up on the WBEZ Sound Opinions page, which is a bit of a surprise because Andy had announced last year he was done with the Christmas mixes. This year, Andy's taken a hard left turn into Jazz.

Andy's mixes are presented as LP sides, so, in essence, there are two continuous cuts. Andy, aka DJ Lo-Fi, shares his creations and the stories behind them on Sound Opinions, a show on Chicago Public Radio station, WBEZ. Then the mix is made available for free download until the first of the year, at which time it disappears. So go get "Swingin Snowflakes", Andy's 21st voyage into holiday obscura. If you're knowledge of holiday Jazz is slight to middling, this is an excellent foundational mix containing most of the great artists of the genre's golden age. I've been doing Jazz mixes for a good long time so there aren't any surprises here for me. Unlike Andy's previous mixes, everything here, with the probable exception of Urbie Green, is available on CD or as a digital download.

3 Comments

Ernie (Not Bert) link

12/18/2011 02:02:36 pm

Listening to the live show from Sound Opinions, he plays different stuff. I'm only a little ways into it, but there's no jazz at all...

Mark

12/20/2011 11:16:19 am

Can this be purchased as cd? only a download? my dial up doesn't support downloads. this music made me grin, keep time on steering wheel. It cut thru all the holiday cr*p.

Stubby link

12/20/2011 11:52:16 am

Mark,
Andy's mixes (and the podcast) are only available as free downloads from the Sound Opinion web site and only for a short time. Much of the music on this year's mix can be found on CD or mp3, but the mixes themselves are only here and now. My best suggestion would be to ask a friend who has a system that supports downloads to get it for you and burn it to disc.

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