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We're in a festive mood-perhaps the season makes us feel this way. So, in the spirit, we want to introduce (or re-introduce) you to music for the season-our pics for some of the finest holiday music from the artists of Smooth Jazz.

Featuring Lee Ritenour, Joyce Cooling, Gerald Albright, Al Jarreau, David Benoit, Marc Antoine and more, performing "What Child is This?", "Suite de "Nuestra Navidad": la Anunciacion/La Peregrinacion", "This Christmas", Silent Night" and other standards .

December, as only Chris Botti can bring it to you, featuring: "The Christmas Song", "The Hallelujah Chorus", "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and many more favorites of the season.

It wouldn't be Christmas without the acoustic strummings of #1 Contemporary Jazz artist, Peter White's "Songs of the Season", with renditions of "White Christmas", "The First Noel", "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "River". Enjoy the music… the fireplace… the joy!

Relive the magic of a "Smooth Jazz Christmas" with saxman Dave Koz & Friends Brenda Russell, David Benoit, Rick Braun and Peter White, as they celebrate the season with "Beneath the Moonlit Sky", the saucy "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus", "Eight Candles" (A Song for Hanukkah) and the most comical version of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" you'll ever enjoy.

And for the kid in us all… the original soundtrack recording by the Vince Guaraldi Trio "A Charlie Brown Christmas".

Happy Holidays to all!

Darrel, JazzyG & the staff of Smooth Notes and News.com

Coming in 2003…

New Releases to look forward to:

February

Mindi Abair - It Just Happens That Way (2/25 - GRP)
Spyro Gyra - Original Cinema (Heads Up International)
Wayne Shorter - TBA (2/25 - Verve)

March

Crusaders - Rural Renewal (3/04 - GRP)
Richard Elliot - TBA (3/13 - GRP)
Doc Powell - 97th & Columbus (Heads Up International)
Richard Smith - TBA (Native Language)

April

Gerald Veasley - Velvet (4/23 - Heads Up International)

May

The Yellowjackets - TBA (Heads Up International)

June

Hiroshima - TBA (6/24 - Heads Up International)

Heads Up International announced signing an exclusive deal with the pioneering instrumental ensemble, on November 1, 2002. Comments Dave Love, label President, "We're thrilled to be working with Hiroshima. Their distinctive East-meets-West approach to performance, composition and recording places them in the forefront of the contemporary music scene…"

Due in the Summer and Fall

Smooth Africa II - (Heads Up International)

Jaco Pastorius Big Band - (Heads Up International)

Want to know his opinion about an upcoming release? Make your In-Flyte reservations at: inflyte@smoothnotesandnews.com.

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