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Cool Yule

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Usually choral holiday recordings are standard, run-of-the-mill fare. This chorus really swings with great harmonies, excellent diction and rhythm, and a sense of humor.

If you like swing music, buy this CD. Although there a few standard tunes, most of the selections are obscure and rarely heard. The band is top notch.

Great holiday party music!

The song listing gives you your first clue as to how unique this recording is. Most of these songs were only recorded once by the artists who briefly made them famous in the swing era. This is not anouther collection of the same holiday favorites that other choral groups have done and re-done endlessly. But more than that, this doesn't sound like what most people think of when they think "gay chorus": It's not that "big choral" style. The vocal performance has a laid-back jazzy feel, almost like a jazz vocal quartet, despite the large number of singers involved. And the swing band accompaniment. well, it really swings.

This is the perfect holiday disc to pop in when you're still in the holiday spirit but think you'll scream if you hear "Hark the Herald Angels" one more time. It's the one holiday CD that stays in my CD changer, comfortable in shuffle mode with both classical and jazzy holiday CDs.