List Price: £23.99 (GBP)
- Lowest New Price: £9.94
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- Artist : Jewel
- Binding : Audio CD
- EAN : 0075678325021
- Label : Imports
- Manufacturer : Imports
- Number Of Discs : 1
- Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
- Package Quantity : 1
- Product Group : Music
- Publisher : Imports
- Release Date : 1999-12-23
- SKU : 07567832502U
- Studio : Imports
- UPC : 075678325021
Jewel has concocted an intriguing and at times beautifully inspired holiday album, playing it straight with a big orchestra and backing voices for the first half of the record with standards such as "Joy to the World", "Winter Wonderland", "Silent Night", as well as a lovely rendition of "Ave Maria". Things finally get sparkling in the last half where Jewel does a low-key, kid version of "Rudolph" and sings her own compositions. Her moving "Face of Love" and "Hands" are certain to become holiday standards, capable of being sung in a country, pop, gospel, or R&B vein and deserving of an audience as wide as the nation itself. The record's centrepiece, however, seems to be a six-minute-plus medley that mixes "Go Tell It on the Mountain" with the recent hit "From a Distance" and her own "Life Uncommon". Nonetheless, her stunning adaptation of "Gloria" inspired, in part, by Bach's B-Minor Mass, two tracks later is as powerful and lovely a Christmas vocal performance as you will find anywhere. Produced by the legendary Arif Mardin, Joy is destined to become a holiday classic. --Martin Keller
- Amazon.co.uk Review
Tracks:
Disc 1
- 1: Joy To The World
- 2: O Holy Night
- 3: Silent Night
- 4: Winter Wonderland
- 5: O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- 6: Ave Maria
- 7: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- 8: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- 9: Face Of Love
- 10: Medley: A. Go Tell It On The Mountain/B. Life Uncommon/C. From A Distance
- 11: I Wonder As I Wander
- 12: Gloria
- 13: Hands (Christmas Version)
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