Performers
- Guelph Chamber Choir
- Gerald Neufeld, conductor
- Alison MacNeill, accompanist
Featured Instrumentalists
- Oliver Whitehead Jazz Ensemble
- Henry Janzen, viola
Description
Much of the music on this compact disc is about the integration of the Christmas story into a society's myths, and the mode of their presentation is an adaptation of old carols and texts to the jazz and world-music idioms of the 21st century. Accompanied by the Oliver Whitehead Jazz Ensemble, these carols, old and new, are alternately soulful and lively with instrumental improvisations that give them their distinctive character.
Program
- Masters in this Hall/Bryan O'Lynn's Jig -- arr. Shaw/Parker/Oliver Whitehead - trad. French
- Carol of the Birds -- arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. Spanish
- Fum, Fum, Fum -- arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. Spanish
- All Hayle to the Dayes -- arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. English
- Gaudete -- arr. Oliver Whitehead
- Huron Carol -- arr. Stephen Holowitz and Whitehead - trad. Canadian/Huron
- Hodie Oliver Whitehead
- Patapan -- arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. Burgundian
- I May Not Go to Bethlehem Jeff Smallman
- A 'Soalin' -- arr. Donald Patriquin - trad. English
- Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day -- arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. English
- Voices of Light Paul Halley
- The World Awaits Stephen Holowitz
- Carol of the Bells -- arr. Oliver Whitehead - trad. Ukranian
- In the Bleak Mid-winter Gustav Holst, -- arr. Oliver Whitehead