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James Taylor at Christmas | 
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| Artist: James Taylor
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 489
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 700323
UPC: 886970032322
EAN: 0886970032322
ASIN: B000I0QK74
Release Date: October 10, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Winter Wonderland featuring Chris Botti | | • | Go Tell It On The Mountain | | • | Santa Claus Is Coming To Town | | • | Jingle Bells | | • | Baby, It's Cold Outside featuring Natalie Cole | | • | River | | • | Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas | | • | The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) Featuring Toots Theilemans | | • | Some Children See Him | | • | Who Comes This Night | | • | In The Bleak Midwinter | | • | Auld Lang Syne |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Looking for a smart, never-out-of-style singer who turns in a perfectly solid collection of Christmas songs, including a few surprises? J.T. is your man on James Taylor at Christmas, which is nicely balanced between pop and jazz selections, with more stately hymn-like fare and balladry. Always fine in his charmingly understated voice, Taylor and company try out the old gospel standard "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and the memorable "Some Children See Him." He smoothly cuts through "Winter Wonderland" and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" with a bit of jazz flavor, and reprises Joni Mitchell's increasingly popular Christmas song (even though it's about getting away from the holiday), "River." One of the album's most satisfying delights is Taylor's funky version of "Jingle Bells," sung in a kind of barroom stomp with the most intriguing phrasing since Barbra Streisand sang it in the '60s. Soulful and bright and moody as well (when Taylor sings "In the Bleak Midwinter," you believe it's indeed rough), there's barely a clinker here. -- Martin Keller James's Christmas Album More from James Taylor
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Combine the most beloved, classic songs of the holiday season with the warm baritone of one of the most recognized voices in popular music, and fans will have reason to celebrate with James Taylor at Christmas. This 12-track collection features traditional and contemporary seasonal songs.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 169 more reviews...
 James Taylor Christmas CD is great December 24, 2008
Great music to "get in the spirit" of Christmas. The pleasant, relaxing voice of James Taylor singing everyone's favorite holiday songs, in his own great style. *****CD
 Uninspired December 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A long time James Taylor fan - but there is a certain cheese factor about these arrangements that makes them truly difficult to listen to.
Do look elsewhere.
Not a bad track on the entire CD . . . . December 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a huge Christmas music fan. 32 CDs in my collection . . . and still buy a new one each year. The day after Thanksgiving I just put them on multi-disc player suffle and let play until December 26th. [The time-frame is family member enforced :( ]
Like a child, I like to open and play the new Christmas CD sans any pre-research or opinion reading. I don't want to be prejudiced. Sometimes they are a total bust/disappointment (i.e., Mary Chapin-Carpenter's Come Darkness, Come Light) and sometimes they are a joyful, not-a-bad-track-on-the-entire-CD, full-out pleasure to listen to again and again.
That's how I feel about the James Taylor at Christmas CD -- two years running. It's wonderful in song selection, arrangement, production, and James and guests are in fine voice. You can acutally hear in their voices that they enjoyed making this music -- at least that's how it sounds to me. Whether you have a large or small Christmas music collection, this one is worth adding.
 Not the best... December 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had just bought October Road which I totally love, so I thought why not try his Christmas CD. Not so hot! I'd say four or five of the songs are pretty good, but the others are average or less than average. If I had to buy another Christmas CD I think I'd go with Bing or Nate.
on second thought.....it's wonderful! December 8, 2008
I too was slightly unmoved with Jimmy T's Christmas offering initially. I expected something somehow more 'personal' or 'special'. That was when it was first released. The following year I put it on and...shabang...it sparkled to high heaven and I've loved it ever since! So warm, so happy, so rich with little sprinkles of levity. He actually makes me look forward to hearing Jingle Bells, a Christmas song that out of his hands is worn to threads. It seems this Christmas work is a 'Goldielocks Delight' - not too much, not too little, but just right.
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