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Putumayo's "A Jazz & Blues Christmas" Available Now

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Putumayo Livens Up the Holiday Season with New Jazz and Blues Christmas Collection

Featuring Ray Charles, B.B. King, Ramsey Lewis, Charles Brown and Other Exceptional Artists

Putumayo delivers the perfect package of soulful jazz and blues to liven up the holiday season. A Jazz & Blues Christmas, which will be released on October 14th, offers a memorable array of classic holiday songs by jazz and blues legends and lesser-known artists.

B.B. King opens the album with Christmas Celebration, a rollicking, up-tempo tune cheerfully punctuated with bursts of brass from an energetic horn section. Ray Charles tells the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to a soulful beat. Ramsey Lewis plays Here Comes Santa Claus, simulating the ring of sleigh bells on the upper registers of his keyboard. And, young Canadian chanteuse Emilie-Claire Barlow offers a new take on the old holiday favorite Santa Baby.

With other exceptional tracks by rhythm and blues veteran Riff Ruffin, iconic blues crooner Charles Brown, jazz vocalist Topsy Chapman and the traditional New Orleans jazz band, The Dukes of Dixieland, A Jazz & Blues Christmas is sure to join Putumayos other collections New Orleans Christmas and Christmas Around the World as Yuletide classics.

A Jazz & Blues Christmas will be followed on October 28th by Women of Jazz, which unites an extraordinary group of North American female vocalists including Cassandra Wilson, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux, Stacy Kent and more. Both CDs expand Putumayos growing jazz series, which includes Latin Jazz and New Orleans.

TRACK LISTING

1. B.B. King Christmas Celebration
2. Charles Brown Santas Blues
3. Randy Greer and Ignasi Terraza Trio Wrap Yourself in a Christmas Package
4. Emilie-Claire Barlow Santa Baby
5. Ray Charles Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
6. The Ramsey Lewis Trio Here Comes Santa Claus
7. The Dukes of Dixieland Merry Christmas Baby
8. Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran The Christmas Blues
9. Riff Ruffin Xmas Baby
10. Mighty Blue Kings All I Ask for Christmas.

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