Artist: Steve Draper Quartet
Album: Have a Very Mellow Christmas
Genre: Smooth Jazz
Released: 1999
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- What Child Is This (4:03)
- Christmas Tree (5:29)
- Hark the Herald Angels (3:53)
- Silent Night (6:11)
- Carol of the Bells (4:17)
- Deck the Halls (4:59)
- Jolly 'Ole St. Nick (2:25)
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- Personnel:
- Steve Draper - keyboards
- Bob Chadwick - flute
- Steve Montgomery - bass guitar
- Richard Chalakian - percussion
The Steve Draper Quartet’s Have a Very Mellow Christmas is another lovely album for those who prefer their jazz soft and melodious. Although Draper himself plays keyboards, you’ll most often be struck by the beauty of Bob Chadwick’s flute, which compares favorably to Paul Horn (whose 1988 release, The Peace Album, springs to mind when I listen to this new disc).
Draper and his sidemen — Steve Montgomery, bass guitar; and Richard Chalakian, percussion — open with an amusingly moody interpretation of “What Child Is This,” easily the album’s best cut. I’m also drawn to their charming reading of “O Christmas Tree,” in an arrangement with echoes of Vince Guaraldi’s handling of the carol for A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The album is short but very sweet.
Derrick Bang