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Available Now: Justin Time Records Celebrates
the Holiday Season With Two Christmas Releases
Justin Time Records Various Artists Compilation -
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and
Halie Loren's Re-Release - Many Times, Many Ways
 
Justin Time Records is pleased to announce two holiday releases: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, a Justin Time Records artist compilation album, and vocalist Halie Loren'salbum, Many Times, Many Ways: A Holiday Collection, both available now.
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Known for their eclectic yet well-balanced mix of classic and new tracks recorded between 1993 and 2011, Justin Time Records delivers a Christmas compilation that shows the breadth of talent and cohesion of various artists on the label, both legacy and rising. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas unites the label's artists together through a collection of key tracks recorded and compiled into one Christmas album bound to stand out in any collection. Highlights from Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas include standards likeGRAMMY® and Juno award-winning vocalist and pianist Diana Krall's sensual arrangement of "The Christmas Song," juxtaposed with jazz piano legend Hank Jones'warm instrumental interpretation of the same tune leaves one with the best of both worlds. Ranee Lee and Oliver Jones create a perfect harmonic symbiosis on their soulful vocal and piano arrangement of "A Christmas Day."
Whether settling in to a winter evening with vocalist Hilary Kole's previously unreleased "Let It Snow," or beating the winter blues to the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir's rhythmic "Christmas Calypso Medley," the harmony created between the artists on this compilation will have listeners singing and swinging right along.
Christmas standards such as Krall's "Jingle Bells" and Jones' "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," recorded by Justin Time Records legacy artists, are complemented by up-and-coming unprecedented artists such as vocalist Coral Egan's "You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch," pianist Taurey Butler's debut instrumental arrangement of "Little Drummer Boy," and Rob McConnell Tentet's "The Christmas Medley." Quartango's classic instrumental medley "Minuit Chrétien/O Holy Night" and vocalist Johanne Blouin's "Mon Beau Sapin," a French interpretation of "O Christmas Tree," will take listeners on an international musical journey before settling into the comfort of Kole's title track, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas."
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New Justin Time Records vocalist Halie Loren's holiday album Many Times, Many Ways: A Holiday Collection is being re-launched this holiday season four years after its initial release in 2008. Loren's sultry vocals on Many Times, Many Ways are matched by the warm and balanced stylings of Matt Treder on piano. In duo, Loren and Treder create an intimate portrait of the season with nine old and new classics such as "The Christmas Song" and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," interwoven with sassy arrangements of "Santa Baby" and "Winter Wonderland." Many Times, Many Ways also features two original instrumental compositions by Treder, "From the Mouths of Babes," and "Sugar Cookies."
"Music is such a huge part of my holiday experience--it is one of the most nostalgic elements of that time of year," says Loren. "Continuing that tradition is a joy for me to be a part of. Recording the album arrangements with the simplicity of piano and voice in duet was reminiscent of sitting around the living room piano on Christmas Eve, singing songs we've known and loved our whole lives."
Evocative and joyous, Many Times, Many Ways achieves, as one reviewer noted, "a jazz-infused cycle of popular and rare holiday numbers that are rendered with a torchy romanticism that just begs for hot toddies and cedar logs roaring in the fireplace."
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These two Justin Time Records jazz Christmas releases this season combine the best of holiday spirit with nostalgia, while also invigorating with swing, groove, and style. Whether it's Christmas catalogue classics performed by the legends or rhythmic, original arrangements of standards and originals by rising artists of today, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Halie Loren's Many Times, Many Ways stand to enhance any holiday music collection.
Justin Time Records Compilation · Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Justin Time Records · Release Date: September 11, 2012 Halie Loren · Many Times, Many Ways Justin Time Records · Release Date: September 11, 2012 For more information on Halie Loren, please visit: HalieLoren.com
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