Christmas Music Awards: Part Deux

This award is for Best Non-Traditional Christmas Track:








If you need a break from the traditional Christmas style, then James Brown's Funky Christmas is for you. But this award goes to one track that stands out from all the rest:


"Santa Clause, Go Straight To The Ghetto"



Find it, buy it, download it. It puts smiles on faces. Just look at this album cover! ------>













Following in a close second is Louis Armstrong's:


'Zat You Santa Clause?


From the album "Verve Presents: Very Best of Christmas Jazz".

This is another great album. Not just a good Christmas album... but really a good jazz album. But be warned: Some may find a few songs on here a little too jazzy and not 'Christmasy' enough.






















Don't miss part one below... and feel free to add your own award winners in the comments section!

Christmas Music Awards

Here is some of the best, little-known christmas music out there:



Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite:


Perfect Christmas music for when you're tired of hearing 50 million versions of the same carols. One of my very favorite albums to listen to and one of the few I can listen to from beginning to end... over and over. It is now only available with two other Ellington suites (the "Peer Gynt Suite" and "Suite Thursday") that aren't Christmas music... but the Nutcracker Suite alone is worth the $9.98 that amazon.com is selling it for.





An Oscar Peterson Christmas:



Arguably one of the best things to ever come out of Canada, you just can't beat Oscar Peterson. His version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" may be one of my single favorite christmas tracks ever recorded... and that is just the first song on the album. Recorded 12 years ago at 70-years-old I don't know why this isn't a more popular Christmas album.



P.S. Feel free to add any other albums in the comments section that are worthy of awards.