The Twelve Essential Tracks of Christmas, Day 5: Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters' "Jingle Bells"

The Twelve Essential Tracks of Christmas, Day 5: Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters' "Jingle Bells" December 28, 2013

This track is one of my earliest memories of jazz music. The close harmonies and shimmering big band sound slipped comfortably into my toddler ears and have never gone away since. I still regard it as a model of the class and polish that epitomized jazz playing and singing. Later attempts to mimic this style have never measured up to the real thing. Where Buble and the Puppini Sisters come off smarmy and contrived, Crosby and the Andrews Sisters exude that natural, artless grace which separates a musician of his time from one merely copying what’s gone before. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s…

Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters’ “Jingle Bells”


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