Spirit of Christmas (Pee-Wee-Ellis-Album)

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The Spirit of Christmas
Studio album by Pee Wee Ellis

Publication
(s)

2013

Label (s) minor music

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

14th

running time

60:47

occupation

production

Pee Wee Ellis and Stephan Meyner

Studio (s)

Topaz Studios, Cologne

The Spirit of Christmas is a jazz Christmas album by Pee Wee Ellis that was recorded and released in 2013.

background

Pee Wee Ellis' original idea was to get some friends together to play some Christmas concerts. Then the producer Stephan Meyner suggested he record a Christmas CD. Pee Wee Ellis: "I thought it was a great idea, so we got started right away!"

Track list

  1. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Hugh Martin; Ralph Blane, Arr: Pe Wee Ellis) - 3:34
  2. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ( Johnny Marks Arr: Gary Winters) - 5:25
  3. Last Christmas ( George Michael ) - 5:34
  4. Christmas in New Orleans (Dick Sherman, Joseph Van Winkle) - 4:09
  5. Christmas Time Is Here ( Vince Guaraldi , Lee Mendelson) - 7:26
  6. In the Upper Room (Lucie E. Campbell) - 7:58
  7. In the Bleak Midwinter ( Harold Darke , Christina Rossetti Arr: Pe Wee Ellis) - 3:59
  8. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (Trad.Arr: Pe Wee Ellis) - 3:13
  9. White Christmas ( Irving Berlin ) - 3:27
  10. Snowfall ( Claude Thornhill ) - 3:51
  11. Silent Night ( Franz Xaver Gruber , Joseph Mohr Arr: Pe Wee Ellis) - 3:05
  12. What Are You Doing New Years Eve ( Frank Loesser ) - 4:25
  13. The Christmas Song ( Robert Wells , Mel Tormé ) - 3:56
  14. Funky Merry Christmas (Pee Wee Ellis) - 3:25

reception

Despite the rather conventional repertoire ("The tracks on the CD invite you to yawn."), Ellis succeeds in producing a convincing Christmas album "with ease" with, according to MDR Figaro, singers who are confident in style, good-humored instrumentalists and a "lot of humor" the station made the "album of the week".

Götz Bühler agrees with this judgment: “On his first Christmas album, the 72-year-old makes exactly the music that one would expect from a sovereign who has lived his career between jazz and soul . With an enormously relaxed (and at the same time enormously grooving) young band and numerous guest singers, Ellis conjures up the 'Spirit Of Christmas'. "

The world , who was discussing a concert in which the album was presented in Hamburg in 2013, considered this to be a "bright mess".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [Interview with Pee Wee Ellis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzB8X459F4 ]
  2. ↑ a b c d On the album this title is labeled as unauthorized
  3. ↑ The Spirit of Christmas (MDR Figaro) ( Memento from December 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Götz Bühler, Crescendo
  5. ↑ A very Merry Christmas with Pee Wee Ellis , Die Welt, December 24, 2013