Comfort and Joy, by Lenny Marcus Trio

Comfort and Joy

by Lenny Marcus Trio

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1.	Christmas is Coming 02:21	buy track
2.	O Tannenbaum 03:46	buy track
3.	Christmas Time Is Here 03:47	buy track
4.	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 02:50	buy track
5.	Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 03:14	buy track
6.	God, Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 03:54	buy track
7.	Fur Elise 03:37	buy track
8.	Greensleeves/What Child Is This? 03:16	buy track
9.	Little Drum 04:33	buy track
10.	We Wish You A Merry Christmas 02:01	buy track
11.	Sonata Pathetique 05:01	buy track

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This Holiday album swings! Interweaving traditional holiday songs with Christmas Charlie Brown music and selected works of Beethoven, Marcus has created a musical mix that is pure "Comfort and Joy!" Sure to warm the heart all year long.

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released September 22, 2009

Personnel:
Lenny Marcus: piano
Scott Trayer: acoustic bass on 1-3, 8, 9
Bob Boiwen: acoustic bass on 6 and 10
Dylan Locke: electric bass on 5
Larry Scott: drums

Design by Billy Chase at Ink Eye Studios
Photography: Nell Enriquez, www.nellenriquez.com
Recorded at Blackwater Studio, ww.bwrecording.com

Songs 1, 3, 9 by V. Guiraldi
Songs 7, 11 by Beethoven
Songs 2, 6, 8, 10 are Traditional
Song 4 by Gillespie/Coots
Song 5 by Martin/Blane

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Lenny Marcus Roanoke, Virginia

Lenny Marcus hails from Wash, DC, but he worked for many years in New Orleans, studying and performing with legends such as Ray Bryant, Ellis Marsalis, Alvin Batiste, and recording with David “Fathead” Newman, Charlie Byrd, Frank Foster, Sonny Fortune, Brian Lynch, Jane Powell and others. His band is a well schooled jazz group. “Their jazz is infectious!,” says Jazz Times magazine. ... more

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