Six-String Santa
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{{Infobox album
| name = Six-String Santa
| type = studio
| artist = Joe Pass
| cover = Six-String Santa.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 6, 1992{{cite web |title=Release "Six String Santa" by Joe Pass |url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/1060f43b-d749-428e-89a6-b85abba5b580 |website=MusicBrainz |accessdate=June 4, 2020}}
| venue =
| studio = Sage & Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA
| genre = Jazz
| length = 45:36
| label = LaserLight Digital
| producer = Ralph Jungheim
| prev_title = Virtuoso Live!
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = Live at Yoshi's
| next_year = 1992
}}
Six-String Santa is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1992.
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 =Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} {{cite web |first=Scott |last=Yanow |title= Six-String Santa - Joe Pass > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r123821 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=June 4, 2020}}
}}
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote "Pass and his regular working quartet of the early '90s (rhythm guitarist John Pisano, bassist Jim Hughart and drummer Colin Bailey) perform a variety of famous Christmas-related songs, plus his own "Happy Holiday Blues." The tasteful renditions swing and include quartet pieces, some two-guitar duets and a few unaccompanied solos from the great Pass, resulting in one of the better Christmas albums around."
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
| writer1 = Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
| length1 = 3:39
| title2 = (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
| writer2 = Robert Allen, Al Stillman
| length2 = 3:58
| title3 = White Christmas
| writer3 = Irving Berlin
| length3 = 3:14
| title4 = God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
| writer4 = traditional
| length4 = 3:20
| title5 = O Christmas Tree
| writer5 = traditional
| length5 = 3:31
| title6 = Angels We Have Heard on High/Joy to the World
| writer6 = traditional
| length6 = 4:36
| title7 = Happy Holiday Blues
| writer7 = Joe Pass
| length7 = 5:16
| title8 = It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
| writer8 = Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis
| length8 = 4:28
| title9 = Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
| writer9 = J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
| length9 = 4:45
| title10 = Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
| writer10 = Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
| length10 = 4:36
| title11 = Winter Wonderland
| writer11 = Felix Bernard, Richard Smith
| length11 = 4:13
}}
Personnel
- Joe Pass – leader, arranger, guitar
- John Pisano – rhythm guitar
- Jim Hughart – acoustic bass
- Colin Bailey – drums
Production & other {{cite web |title= Six-String Santa - Joe Pass - Credits |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/six-string-santa-mw0000123821/credits |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=June 4, 2020}}
- Ralph Jungheim – producer
- Bill Lightner – editing, mastering
- James Mooney – engineer
- Jerry Wood – second engineer
- Leonard Feather – liner notes
References
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