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Janet Villas : Christmas Card
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Sixteen Christmas favorites jazzed up just enough for a fresh, contemporary feel. Clean, crisp vocals, jazz quartet back-up.
Genre: Jazz: Traditional Jazz Combo
Release Date: 2006
Christmas Card © Copyright-Janet Villas
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
We Need a Little Christmas 1:44 $0.99
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow 2:07 $0.99
Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel 3:40 $0.99
I Wonder As I Wander 4:03 $0.99
The Christmas Song 3:57 $0.99
Jingle Bell Rock 2:03 $0.99
White Christmas 2:23 $0.99
Winter Wonderland 2:10 $0.99
Christmas Time Is Here 4:09 $0.99
O Holy Night 4:15 $0.99
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 4:20 $0.99
Seems Like a Dream 3:41 $0.99
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 2:11 $0.99
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree 1:52 $0.99
Silver Bells 3:15 $0.99
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? 3:14 $0.99
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Album Notes

Janet Villas, a long time member of the New York City Opera, and New York Mets anthem soloist turns her attention to her two favorite genres: Christmas music and jazz. She has sung for thousands during the Christmas season with cabaret shows, school events and church solos. She has been exploring her other favorite musical style, jazz for the past four years and combined them into a Christmas jazz show. The show went well, so during the hottest weeks of July and August, Janet found some of the hottest jazz musicians in New York and created this very cool Christmas CD. Along with a few classics, "Oh holy night" and "Oh come oh come Emmanuel" we hear some great traditional numbers jazzed up and taken to a whole new level, such as "Silver Bells" "I wonder as I wander " and "What are you doing New Year's Eve?” We also hear jazz, early rock ands swing numbers, such as "Rockin around the Christmas tree", "Jingle Bell Rock" and "I've got my love to keep me warm" given a whole new twist. It's traditional, it's jazzy, and it’s really very cool. Janet Villas – Vocals, artistic director Janice Friedman – Musical director, arranger, piano http://www.janicefriedman.com Brian Glassman – Double bass Barbara Merjan – Percussion Jessica Jones – Flute, saxophone http://jessicajonesmusic.com Cover photo – Gregg A. Martin Album design – Joe Dolice Produced by Step One Productions, Linda Heard, executive producer Recorded and mixed by Scott Lehrer at Second Story Sound, NYC Associate producer: Scott Lehrer

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REVIEWS

Happy, Jazzy, Snowy
author: Kirk Pearson
It has the basis for every staple in a jazz album. A somewhat cheery but serious voice, a nice backup band, and a good mix of songs. Nice science teacher too.
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This is one very good fun jazz album indeed
author: Peter Merrett
my name is Peter Merrett and l am the music manager for radio station PBS FM Melbourne Australia. We have just received a copy of "Christmas Card" by Ms. Janet Villas through RadioDirectx. This is one very good fun Jazz album indeed and has received a lot of attention in my office. "Christmas Card" is just what we and our listeners are looking for at this special time of the year. Yes we enjoy ourselves around here. Our aim is to rise above the predictable music provided by the majors and maintain our independence. In my department we listen to every cd that arrives at the station, a daunting task at times, then we allocate to the show most suitable and one that will provide the most air-time. With yours the decision was very easy indeed, Jazz of this quality can only go to the cities leading Jazz show. We have done just that and placed it with "Jazz On Saturday" with Steve Robertson Saturday 9am to 11am. PBS FM is the cities leading Jazz and
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It should be called Christmas Spectacular.
author: Mel Buttorff
JANET VILLAS sent you a CHRISTMAS CARD Hold on to your hats---She’s done it again! Janet Villas has come out with her second CD. The title of it is CHRISTMAS CARD and I think that is a very modest title. It should be called Christmas Spectacular. Once again she has taken a handful of classics along with a few lesser known pieces and woven them into a musical dreamscape. I defy anyone to label her style in one word. She sings some with a cool jazz feeling and others in a sassy flip mode. Occasional little side trips into blues or rock add to the very rich texture of this musical treat. Janet, a soprano with New York City Opera and NY METS anthem soloist knows how get attention and hold it. She has appeared before thousands during the Christmas season, with cabaret shows, school events and church solos. She has been exploring her other favorite musical style, jazz, for the past four years and has combined all her skills into a Christmas jazz show. This show was so
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