Fourteen tracks — beloved tunes from Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Christmas album, Bill Evans' celebrated Christmas performances, and classical Christmas standards by Holst and Tchaikovsky — are carefully rendered in serene acoustic modern jazz arrangements by a trio of harp, bass, and drums.
Titled "cwtch," a word cherished by the people of her native Wales that conveys a feeling brimming with love and euphoria, this is a Christmas masterpiece: spiritual and mellow, with pastoral, folky, soft-psychedelic ensembles woven together as if by alchemy, tranquil and meditative. It celebrates all the things she loves — her love of jazz, of classical music, of Christmas — wrapped in happiness, a graceful and supple utopian world, a prayer carried toward the holy night and toward a calm, peaceful world. A record that seems destined to become a household Christmas standard. Highly recommended.
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