[gotmikey]

Being a festive fellow, does anyone know of any well recorded X-mas CD's??  Listening to Andrea Bocelli's singing of Ave Maria right now makes me wonder???

[lonewolfny42]

Nat King Cole , Christmas cd. Seems every Xmas I'm always enjoying this cd. Great voice, just puts you in Xmas spirit !   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000JPM5/qid=1068108940/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-8721330-4724961

[MaxCast]

The Nutcracker is nice this time of year.
Vince Gill has two Christmas Cd's.  The first has "Do You Hear What I Hear" which floors me everytime I hear it.

[Tonto Yoder]

Do you have any John Marks CD's??  They certainly are well-recorded, and the "Rejoice" series might appeal to anyone into string quartets.

http://www.jmrcds.com/Rejoice.html

[Tbadder1]

By all means get The Chieftains CD.  Great combination of traditional and new carols.  Jackson Browne's "Rebel Jesus" is the xmas song for our era.  

I also like the Jethro Tull xmas CD.  Again a fine mixture of traditional and new compositions.  Very English.

[Carlman]

If you want something light-hearted but, musical and well-recorded, I recommend the Squirrel Nut Zipper's Christmas album.

I also have the Muppets Christmas which is well-recorded.

Rock on,
Carl

[boxhead]

JIngle Cats. It will have your dog howling. The Nashville Brass is nice.

[Fathom7]

Recommend mixing in Lou Rawls Christmas album.  Makes a wonderful contrast to the Nat King Cole tracks as well (which is my own favorite as well) .

F7

[Tonto Yoder]

Another to consider might be Holly Cole's "Baby, It's Cold"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RDIU/qid=1068177590/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-4679242-6096128?v=glance&s=music

She's also on a compilation "Count Your Blessings" with Jane Siberry, Mary Margaret-O'hara:


Of the two of these, the first is the more consistent and better-sounding.

[skchow]

If you like instrumental stuff, especially brass, The Canadian Brass - A Christmas Experiment, is one of my personal favorites.  (It brings back memories of the years gone by when I used to play Christmas songs with the  high school band).

Sunny.

[PhilNYC]

Here are the ones in my collection:

Greatest Christmas Hits - The Chipmunks (everyone should own this!)
The Christmas Album - David Foster (collection with Natalie Cole, Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis, etc)
A Very Special Christmas - collection with U2, Eurythmics, Sting, Run-DMC, etc)
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio (everyone should own this, too!)
Christmas with Louis Armstrong and Friends
Christmas Songs with the Ray Brown Trio (with Etta Jones, Diana Krall, etc)
A Christmas Together - John Denver and The Muppets (no Xmas collection complete without it!)

[Tonto Yoder]

I accidentally started my Xmas listening today when playing William S. Burroughs' "Spare Ass Annie," forgetting that the track "Junkie's Christmas" is part of the CD. Actually, it's a very good track (but probably not one you'd want to play for Aunt Ethel) detailing a junkie trying to score on Christmas.  Though it deals with the down-and -outers, it ends with a gift that is as much in the Christmas spirit as any of the more traditional holiday fare.  It has been made into a video that's either animation or claymation:  MTV or VH1 has shown it on occasion.
http://www.artdamage.com/wsb/junky.htm

[Andrikos]

Ray Charles! The best one ever!

[hifitommy]

yule be-boppin' on blue note
and
jazz crhistmas party on warner bros.

both available on towerrecords.com.  

i make it a point to get lots of jazz xmas music.  i have many more, binyl and cd.  these two are readily avialable.

oyeah, another:

crescent city christmas card by wynton marsalis, also readily available on tower.