In every setting, her voice is soulful and forthright. Her Christmas album places intimate voice-and-piano showcases, like “Silent Night” and a bilingual version of a French carol, “Il Est Né, le Divin Enfant,” alongside band performances that span jazz ballads (“The Christmas Song”) and tambourine-driven gospel (“Joy to the World”). The singer and pianist Liz McComb, originally from Cleveland, has been an emissary of American gospel, living in Paris for the last three decades. Liz McComb: ‘Merry Christmas’ (GVE/The Orchard) She has made a few daring choices: James Brown’s sidelong reminder about poverty, “Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto,” and a Jerry Lieber-Mike Stoller song recorded by Ray Charles, “The Snow Is Falling,” that goes beyond blue to suicidal. But Fantasia finds surprising moments of introspection, and she makes “Give Love on Christmas Day” more sincere than either the Temptations or the Jackson 5 did. Its guest-star moment, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” with Cee Lo Green, is a misfire. Fantasia: ‘Christmas After Midnight’ (Concord)įantasia doesn’t stint on the high-flying melismas that made her an “American Idol” winner on “Christmas After Midnight,” a set of largely familiar Christmas songs with arrangements leaning toward small-group jazz. How else to explain its glam-rock take on “I Wish It Was Christmas Today” - a nugget of nonsense that Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz played for years on “Saturday Night Live” - or a cover of “Remember (Christmas),” a stargazing Harry Nilsson ballad that has almost nothing to do with the holiday? On “Christmas Christmas,” Cheap Trick throws its clanging, power-pop heroics at a selection of songs from well outside the Christmas canon, including three original compositions the results are surprisingly infectious.
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6 Big Moments: Don’t have time to watch the full documentary? Here’s a guide to its eye-opening scenes.Ĭheap Trick: ‘Christmas Christmas’ (Big Machine)Ĭheap Trick has always excelled at not taking things too seriously.
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