Beegie Adair - Winter Romance

Styles: Piano, Christmas
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:38
Size: 112,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:00)  1. I'll Be Home For Christmas
(3:54)  2. Winter Wonderland
(4:10)  3. Merry Christmas Darling
(3:59)  4. Sleigh Ride
(3:27)  5. Santa Baby
(4:51)  6. A Winter Romance
(4:07)  7. It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
(3:58)  8. A Child Is Born
(3:41)  9. Mistletoe And Holly
(4:32) 10. Snowfall
(4:25) 11. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
(3:28) 12. Auld Lang Syne

For her Christmas album, pianist Beegie Adair engages an orchestra to back her usual trio. That action pushes the genre designation for her music from "jazz" to "easy listening." Although generally defined as a jazz artist, Adair is on the more conservative side, usually playing the melodies of the standards she likes to fill her albums with, while adding only brief improvisational sections and embellishments. Here, the string arrangements don't leave much room even for that, making this instrumental pop with a holiday bent and almost no jazz content. Of course, it's a pleasant recording of some very familiar material, festive and occasionally playful ("Santa Baby") as well as sentimental. Most artists use their Christmas albums simply to present seasonal music in their established styles; Adair goes beyond that somewhat by adding the orchestra, but this album still sounds like what her followers would expect. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/winter-romance-mw0001778192

Personnel:   Piano – Beegie Adair;  Bass – Roger Spencer; Cello – John Catchings, Sari Reist; Clarinet – Lee Levine; Contrabass [String Bass] – Jack Jezzro; Drums – Chris Brown; Flute – Erik Gratton; French Horn – Beth Beeson, Jennifer Kummer;  Guitar – Jack Jezzro; Harp – Mary Alice Hoepfinger; Keyboards – Jeff Steinberg; Oboe – Ellen Menking;  Orchestra – The Jeff Steinberg Orchestra; Percussion – Eric Darken;  Tenor Saxophone – Denis Solee;  Viola – Jim Grosjean, Kristin Wilkinson, Monisa Angell;  Violin – Conni Ellisor, David Angell, Karen Winkelmann, Pam Sixfin;  Violin, Concertmaster – David Davidson

Winter Romance

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