Merry Christmas! From Bird, Ella, Miles, Pops, Duke, & Me

Merry Christmas, everyone!  Enjoy the tunes, they're wonderful.  And in Miles' case, brilliantly strange.

 

 

Charlie "Bird" Parker, "White Christmas."

 

 

Ella Fitzgerald, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

 

Miles Davis (w/Marcus Miller and Dave Sanborn), "We Three Kings."

 

Louis "Pops" Armstrong, "Christmas Night in Harlem."

 

Duke Ellington Meets Tchaikovsky, "The Nutcracker Suite."

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A word of thanks to Ted Gioia, whose tweets (@tedgioia) tipped me off to the videos by Pops Armstrong, Miles, and Bird.