CYRUS NABIPOOR'S CRESCENT CITY CHRISTMAS CARD

Cyrus Nabipoor's Crescent City Christmas CardWynton Marsalis Crescent City Christmas Card has been a holiday staple for me since adolescence, long before I actually moved to New Orleans. I got the CD as a teenager and was instantly taken with the unique arrangements. These are holiday classics played in ways I had never imagined.

Lush, brooding, festive and jarring, Wyntons orchestrations reject the simplistic commercial holiday cheer, celebrating instead a wider range of emotion. For a holiday