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Peter White
Peter White Christmas with Mindi Abair and Rick Braun
Genre: Special Interest

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Little Drummer Boy
2. The Christmas Song
3. I Can t Wait for Christmas
4. Greensleeves (What Child is This?)
5. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
6. River
7. Jingle Jangle Blues
8. Silent Night
9. The Best Part of Christmas
10. Santa Claus is Coming to Town/ Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
11. Happy Christmas / O Holy Night
12. White Christmas

CD Details

All Artists: Peter White
Title: Peter White Christmas with Mindi Abair and Rick Braun
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: ARTIZEN RECORDS
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 4/16/2009
Genre: Special Interest
Style: Holiday & Wedding
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 851071001928

Synopsis

Product Description

Peter White is an extraordinary and fluent acoustic guitarist whose skills are world-renown. Mindi Abair is a double-edged talent from her fluid saxophone to emotive vocals. Rick Braun is a masterful trumpet/flugelhorn player whose warm tones transform the simplest melody into a work of art. They have separately sold literally millions of records and anticipate the acceptance to this special performance of Christmas chestnuts.

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CD Reviews

Hot grooves

N. Goodrich | Pensacola, Florida United States | 12/06/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is definitely not grandma's White Christmas. World famous talents, Peter White, Rick Braun and Mindi Abair, team up creating music to remember all year long. No snooze here. These musicians are live and whaling as they add zip and spirit to Christmas past.

Mindi adds a sultry tone to "I Can't Wait For Christmas" and "The Best Part of Christmas" with her lusty lead vocals. "Jingle Jangle Blues" is spirited. Joni Mitchell's "River" brings a familiar yet new feeling to the Christmas spirit. Jeffrey Osborne steps up for a deep rendition of "Silent Night."

An incredible group of stars create a superb new feel to Christmas music.

"

INCREDIBLE

Melanie Nied | 12/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I had the opportunity to go hear A Peter White Christmas just last night in Toledo, Ohio. It was awesome. What a great performance! It was the

fastest two and a half hours I ever sat through. I love music and this trio put on one heck of a performance. I would go hear them again if they

were close. All I can say is WOW!

MELANIE NIED"

A Smooth Jazz Twist on Songs of the Season by a Triple Threa

Alan C. Hopper | Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. U.S.A. | 11/11/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A friend took me to see the Peter White Christmas concert in 2004. I was blown away that three virtuosos--acoustic guitarist Peter White; vocalist/saxaphonist Mindi Abair; and vocalist and trumpet/flugelhorn player Rick Braun--could share the stage so effortlessly.

I never forgot the experience, and when I saw the Peter White Christmas cd last year, I scooped it up. Nothing could match the dynanicism of seeing this Smooth Jazz Power Troika live, but this album is a gem.

Smooth Jazz "takes" on Christmas chestnuts brings needed change and life to these standards. What is most special about this collaboration are the arrangements. Who knew acoustic-guitar solos, sax solos and flugelhorn playing would enliven Christmas songs? Well, there you go....

The highlight of this record, though, is the Mindi Abair-penned, modern-day Christmas classic, "I Can't Wait for Christmas." I say "classic" because if this song were to reach wider airplay, it could become a Christmas standard. It's that good. It was very deft of Abair to give a wink and a nod to Eartha Kitt when she sings, "Santa Baby's on the radio...." in this number, which has a bluesy feel, reminiscent of Kitt's classic.

I think the Peter White Christmas tour goes out every year between Thanksgiving and New Year's, so if you really want to do yourself a favor, don't just buy the CD, go out and see this show live.

In an age of overpaid musicians, it's nice to see people who probably need the work (and the money), coming together to give audiences a wonderful collaborative concert appearance, which is all about the audience enjoying themselves and being blown away by the numerous gifts these talented musicians possess.

The only thing I wish they had done was include a brief history of how Peter White Christmas came to be. It would have been fun to know how they joined forces to create this great album and perform live for us during the holiday season.

Having said that, it hasn't prevented me from purchasing 25 of these compact discs to give to friends and family, who now love this trio as much as I do!

"