Glenn’s Trumpet Notes

So you like the trumpet and you like Christmas, right? Then put ’em together and either (1) give a CD to someone for Christmas or (2) add a CD to your own Christmas-gift wish list so that someone can give it you. Not just a CD of beautiful Christmas music—make it a CD that features great trumpeters playing great Christmas music!

Through the internet, I’ve conducted an informal poll, asking other trumpeters from around the world to name their favorite Christmas CDs featuring the trumpet. Here are the results (not in priority or genre order):

• Canadian Brass, “A Very Merry Christmas CD” (2010)
• Canadian Brass, “Christmas Tradition” (2007)
• Canadian Brass, “A Christmas Experiment” (2007)
• Canadian Brass, “Noel” (1994)
• Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, “Christmas Album” (2005)
  

  Herb Alpert's "Christmas Album" cover

• Tine Thing Helseth, “My Heart is Ever Present” (2009)
• Rick Braun, “Christmas Present” (1994)
• Chris Botti, “December” (2006)
• Doc Severinsen, “Christmas with Friends” (1991)
• Doc Severinsen, “Merry Christmas from Doc Severinsen” (2000)
• Phil Driscoll, “Heaven and Nature Swing” (2000)
• Boston Brass, “The Stan Kenton Christmas Carols” (2005)
• Wynton Marsalis, “Christmas Jazz Jam” (2009)
• Playboy’s “Latin Jazz Christmas: A Not So Silent Night,” featuring Arturo Sandoval (2001)
• Al Hirt, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” (2000)
• Harry Connick, Jr., “When My Heart Finds Christmas,” featuring Roger Ingram (1993)
• Philadelphia Brass, “Festival of Carols in Brass” (1991)
• Philadelphia Brass, “Christmas in the Grand Tradition” (2010)
• The Airmen of Note, “Cool Yule” (2009)
• The Airmen of Note, “A Holiday Note from Home” (2005)
• Tom Kubix Big Band, “A Jazz Musicians Christmas” (2002)
• James Morrison, “Christmas” (2000)

If you have a favorite not listed here, please click on “Leave a Comment” below this post, give me the artist and title, and I’ll add it to the above list.

If you want to learn more about these favorites and even listen to excerpts from some of them, simply copy the bulleted item, paste it into a search engine box, and hit “search.” You’ll find lots of results that link you to websites featuring that item in some way.

And I wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, with God’s many blessings!