A Merry Christmas!
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| Studio album by Stan Kenton | ||||
| Released | 1961 | |||
| Recorded | February 21 and March 14 & 20, 1961 Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, CA |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Capitol T/ST 1621 | |||
| Producer | Lee Gillette | |||
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A Merry Christmas! (full title From the Creative World of Stan Kenton comes A Merry Christmas!) is an album of Christmas music by the Stan Kenton Orchestra recorded in 1961 and released by Capitol Records.
The Allmusic review by Matt Collar noted A Merry Christmas is a polyphonic masterpiece that is at once progressive and traditional. ...Featuring Kenton's idiosyncratic style of arranging piercing trumpets over a wooly blanket of trombones and mellophones, this is beautiful, forward-thinking and angular music that addresses both complex classical harmony and Basie-style swing".
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