For those readers not familiar with my curious obsession with Christmas music, let me just say that you are in the sure and steady hands of a holiday music connoisseur-a man who every year sends out ...

The relationship between the secular Christmas music that emerged in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, and jazz is that both drew heavily from the same source—the Broadway songbook—for the same ...

The familiar tunes of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” transport us. The opening measures make us children again, abed after Christmas dinner as the subtle sounds of the record player waft in from another ...

Acclaimed jazz vocalist Lizzie Thomas rings in the holiday season with This Christmas. This is a radiant collection of holiday classics and originals that blend jazz, Neo-soul, and R&B with her ...

Palm trees and sandy beaches were in the air on a chilly December night as we gathered for NPR's annual A Jazz Piano Christmas concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in ...

Christmas is on Dec. 25, but the the holiday tunes starts playing way before that on Sirius XM. What to know? What are the ...

It’s starting once again. Stores are already filled with Christmas décor, holiday content is gradually creeping into social media feeds, and SiriusXM is ready to bring back its diverse collection of ...

Before Mariah Carey took possession of the holiday airwaves with “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” songs by the great American songwriters dominated the Christmas season. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, ...

DENVER — SiriusXM is spreading cheer with its biggest holiday music lineup ever. The streaming radio giant began playing its seasonal music lineup on Nov. 1 with the debut of three new channels: ...

There’s no big preamble to this Christmas jazz list of mine, save for a desire to show off the music, moods and holiday moments that are warming to the touch and seasonally stirring to the soul. Or ...

It's hard to believe that Jazz Piano Christmas celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. We were initially stumped on how to celebrate, but as we reminisced about the many pianists we have featured ...