#Charles Daellenbach

[canadachronicles]

One of my favorite carols, I always sing the Sussex Carol as boisterously as I can on Christmas Night, and I always tear up at some point, a fantastic thing for a heathen, eh? And I find this beautiful version by The Canadian Brass even more touching!

Happy Christmas Eve, friends; I hope you all have a lovely time with the people who are dear to you!

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Holly Cole

Temptation

Capitol Records, 1995

Cyro Baptista – percussion

Anne Bourne – cello

Dougie Bowne – drums

Kevin Breit – guitar, national steel guitar, slide guitar

Holly Cole – vocals

The Colettes – background vocals

Charles Daellenbach – tuba

Aaron Davis – arranger, brass arrangement, piano, string arrangements

Rhoda Dog – vocals

Phil Dwyer – horn arrangements, alto sax, baritone sax

Anne Lederman – violin

Howard Levy – harmonica

Fred Mills – trumpet

David Ohanian – french horn

Douglas Perry – viola

David Piltch – arranger, bass, acoustic bass, percussion

Ronald Romm – trumpet

Earl Seymour – horn arrangements, baritone sax

Eugene Watts – trombone

Perry White – horn arrangements, tenor sax

This may be the album Cole needs to cross over from the relatively cloistered world of the jazz chanteuse to wider pop exposure. Choosing producer Craig Street, who supervised Cassandra Wilson's career-boosting "Blue Light 'Til Dawn," was a big step in the right direction. Choosing to do an entire program of Tom Waits songs was a more risky--but ultimately shrewd--decision.

Wisely, Cole has largely steered clear of Waits' most dissolute, bottom-of-the-bottle tunes in favor of his poetic mini-dramas, along with such familiar items as "Jersey Girl," "Little Boy Blue" and "Heart of Saturday Night."

At her best, Cole finds fascinating ways to deal with what is, by any definition, highly idiosyncratic material. Where Waits' boozy surrealism candidly plumbs the emotional depths in pursuit of a kind of unwaveringly hard-boiled street truth, Cole is more circuitous. In several songs she uses catchy rhythmic grooves to generate sinuous, suggestive readings that skirt the edges of feeling, pulling the listener in via indirection and innuendo.

DON HECKMAN in Los Angeles Times

[canadachronicles]

I'm very into this Entertainer Rag by Canadian Brass! Perhaps it because it reminds me of a band Katie and I saw, years ago, at the Toronto Jazz Festival! Perhaps it's just because it is a very cool rendition! Whatever the reason, I just dig it!!