There is much holiday season music around with a jazz feel to it - and much of it with good stories behind the sounds, too.

Mel Tormé and his musical writing partner Bob Wells whipping up the classic “Christmas Song” in about 40 minutes as a balm for an uncomfortably hot Los Angeles summer;
A few years ago, our friends at CBS Sunday Morning produced a feature that reunited former child singer/actors for what became an unexpected Vince Guaraldi classic, Christmas Time is Here.
Plus, we play some Pittsburgh-rooted sounds by Andrew Kirk and Pittsburgh Holiday sounds from Johnny Costa, Joe Negri, Tania Grubbs, Stephen Phillip Harvey, Mark Strickland and Tony DePaolis, a Reid Hoyson holiday project with Hendrick Meurkens, and also a Michael Franks Christmas tune that is clearly firmly rooted in Los Angeles.
Plus, a musical intro from a past holiday show that was interrupted by our recently departed kitten, Bella (named for Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald - she was a small, endearing cat). Bella left us a month ago after a couple of years of heath concerns that she nonetheless endured through, and a frequent co-producer of many of our radio programs.

CBS Sunday Morning, December 19, 2021

Mel Torme - 1993 with Conan O’Brien, 10/01/1993

Holiday sounds and stories - Mel Tormé, Charlie Brown, Bella and more on the Scene