The Beautiful Day’ is much more than a seasonal production. Elling applies his warm baritone to a set of thoughtfully curated traditional songs reworked in his own sophisticated, harmonically rich fashion. He has crafted an album that evokes the holiday spirit in all of its wondrous complexity. Including vinyl only bonus track ’Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring’.
The American jazz vocalist performed and recorded with David Amram, Bob Belden, Joanne Brackeen, Oscar Brown, Jr., Billy Corgan, Orbert Davis, among others.
– 1 –
1. Sing a Christmas Carol
2. Wenceslaus (Image I)
3. Star of Wonder
4. We Three Kings
5. Christmas Children
6. Wenceslaus (Image Ii)
7. Some Children See Him
– 2 –
1. Little Drummer Boy
2. Wenceslaus (Image Iii)
3. The Michigan Farm (Cradle Song, Op. 41/1)
4. The Snow is Deep On the Ground / Snowfall
5. Same Old Lang Syne
6. This Christmas
7. The Beautiful Day
8. Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Vinyl Only Bonus Track)