Album: Christmas Songs by Diana Krall (2005)
Genre: Jazz | Mood: Good Natured
Record Label: Verve
Format: Album

Description: Christmas Songs is a 2005 album by Diana Krall performed with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. This is Krall's first full-length album of Christmas songs (not counting 1998's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas EP), and her first studio album with a big band. It is her ninth album overall. Billboard ranked album at number 14 on the magazine's Top Jazz Albums of the Decade.

Artist Background: Diana Krall was born in British Columbia, Canada. She was raised in Nanaimo, a small community on Vancouver Island, where she began performing professionally at age 15 as a jazz pianist. In 1981, Diana won a Vancouver Jazz Festival scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston and, after a year and a half of serious study, she returned to British Columbia. Renowned bassist Ray Brown heard her playing one night in Nanaimo and convinced Diana to move to Los Angeles where she obtain... Part of the Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Jazz movement.

Related Artists: Patricia Barber, Cassandra Wilson, Jane Monheit, Melody Gardot

Music Scene: Part of the Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, Good Natured, 2000s, Album, Verve

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Christmas Songs is a 2005 album by Diana Krall performed with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. This is Krall's first full-length album of Christmas songs (not counting 1998's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas EP), and her first studio album with a big band. It is her ninth album overall. Billboard ranked album at number 14 on the magazine's Top Jazz Albums of the Decade.

Christmas Songs

Diana Krall

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