Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - Christmas Album '1968; 2015

Tracks list

Christmas Album is a late-1968 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. It was
the groups eleventh release. The LP edition of the album was issued twice. The
original edition had the cover photography filling the front and back sides of
the album jacket. For the reissue, the photos were reduced to half size and
placed in the center of a white background. Although the Brass albums were out
of print for a good many years, the Christmas Album was released on CD in the
1980s (with the CD release sporting the altered cover artwork), with annual
reappearances in record stores at Christmastime. The album was re-released again
on CD by the Shout!Factory label in 2006 as were many of the other Tijuana Brass
albums. The Shout!Factory release restored the original artwork to the front
cover and featured the original back cover on the included CD booklet. Another
CD re-release occurred on October 23, 2015 (Herb Alpert Presents label,
remastered), this time restoring the original artwork to the front and back.

The album contains a mixture of popular Christmas-season music, mostly American
secular standards. Exceptions include the Bach piece Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring,
and a traditional Hispanic number, Las Mañanitas. The latter songs
arrangement, provided by marimbist Julius Wechter, is near identical to one used
by Wechters Baja Marimba Band several years earlier, on their 1965 album For
Animals Only. The songss title literally means The Little Mornings; the song is
traditionally sung on the morning of ones birthday celebration, or the day of a
religious figure such as a saint (or, in this case, Jesus).

The cover features the image of Alpert, who is Jewish, dressed as Santa Claus
while playing his trumpet.

Collaborating with Alpert in the production was his usual cadre of musicians:
Nick Ceroli (drums/percussion), Bob Edmondson (trombone), Tonni Kalash
(trumpet), Lou Pagani (keyboards), John Pisano (guitars/mandolin) and Pat
Senatore (bass). Perennial sideman, Julius Wechter, appears on marimba and
percussion. Alpert provides lead vocals on The Christmas Song and The Bell That
Couldnt Jingle, and there are also appearances by a studio choir and string
instruments, arranged by Shorty Rogers.

Tracklisting:
01. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - Winter Wonderland (3:03)
02. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - Jingle Bells (3:09)
03. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - My Favorite Things (3:03)
04. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - The Christmas Song (3:39)
05. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - Las Mañanitas (2:59)
06. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - Sleigh Ride (4:00)
07. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - The Bell That Couldnt Jingle (2:56)
08. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (3:45)
09. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - Jingle Bell Rock (1:52)
10. Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass - Jesu, Joy Of Mans Desiring (3:27)

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