"I'm not much of a fan of the holiday season in general (Thanksgiving excepted), and the vast majority of holiday music finds me reacting on a spectrum that runs from indifferent to mildly annoyed to seething with rage. However, I'm a big fan of big band jazz, which evokes the kind of nostalgia in me that apparently comes to most Americans at the sight of the first snowflake or the million-and-first rendition of the elevator-music version of "Silver Bells ... To my ear the arrangements of the more traditional Christmas caroles like "Silent Night" and "We Three Kings" don't work all that well, but your mileage may vary. But for the most part this is a very enjoyable program of holiday music, even for a Scrooge like me. Props to Marsalis for crediting the arrangers on each piece in addition to the soloists"