Christmas in the Spirit of Jazz

01 Comin’ Home for Christmas (Eva Kruse & Peter Liljeqvist) 4:28
Album: Christmas With My Friends VII (ACT 9916-2)
Nils Landgren, vocals / Johan Norberg, guitar / Eva Kruse, bass / Ida Sand, piano & voc / Jonas Knutsson, sax / Jessica Pilnäs, back. Vocals

02 Winter Wonderland (Felix Bernard / Richard B. Smith) 4:19
Album: Winter Days at Schloss Elmau (ACT 9105-2)
Rebecca Kilgore, vocals / Bernd Lhotzky, p / Colin T. Dawson, trumpet / Chris Hopkins, sax / Oliver Mewes, drums / Henning Gailing, bass

03 Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson / Mitchell Parish) 2:46
Album: Christmas With My Friends V (ACT 9830-2)
Jessica Pilnäs, vocals / Johan Norberg, guitar / Jonas Knutsson, saxophone

04 Fröhliche Weihnacht überall (traditional) 2:54
Album: Still! Still! Still! (ACT 9894-2)
Jazzrausch Bigband directed by Roman Sladek & arranged by Leonhard Kuhn

05 Just Another Christmas Song (Homer Steinweiss) 3:21
Album: Christmas With My Friends VII (ACT 9916-2)
Sharon Dyall, voc / Nils Landgren, tb / Jonas Knutsson, sax / Ida Sand, p & voc / Johan Norberg, guit / Eva Kruse, b / Jessica Pilnäs, back. Vocals

06 Happy Xmas, War is Over (John Lennon & Yoko Ono) 5:58
Album: Working Class Hero (ACT 9597-2)
Iiro Rantala, piano

07 Angel’s Carol (John Rutter) 4:02
Album: Christmas With My Friends IV (ACT 9568-2)
Jeanette Köhn, vocals / Ida Sand, vocals & piano / Johan Norberg, guitar / Jonas Knutsson, saxophone / Eva Kruse, bass

08 Vinter (Janne Mark) 5:28
Album: Pilgrim (ACT 9735-2)
Janne Mark, vocals / Arve Henriksen, trumpet / Henrik Gunde Pedersen, piano / Esben Eyermann, bass / Jesper Uno Kofoed, drums

09 A Child is Born (Thad Jones / Alexander Wilder) 3:17
previously not released on CD
Laila Biali, piano & vocals / Richard Hammond, bass / Ben Wittman, drums

10 Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) 4:37
Album: Brothers (ACT 9817-2)
Adam Bałdych, violin / Tore Brunborg, saxophone / Helge Lien, piano / Frode Berg, bass / Per Oddvar Johansen, drums

11 Little Drummer Boy (Katherine K. Davis, Harry Simeone & Henry Onorati) / Peace On Earth (Ian Fraser, Larry Gross-man & Alan Kohan) 3:16
Album: Christmas With My Friends VI (ACT 9872-2)
Nils Landgren, vocals / Jeanette Köhn, vocals / Ida Sand, piano / Jonas Knutsson, saxophone / Johan Norberg, guitar / Eva Kruse, bass

12 Away in a Manger (William James Kirkpatrick) 2:02
Album: Nordic Christmas (ACT 9040-2)
Tore Brunborg, recorder & saxophone / Kjetil Bjerkestrand, organ

13 Jul, jul, strålande jul (Gustaf Nordqvist / Edvard Evers) 4:23
Album: Christmas With My Friends II (ACT 9476-2)
Jeanette Köhn & Jessica Pilnäs, voc / Ida Sand, piano & voc / Nils Landgren, tb / Johan Norberg, guitar / Jonas Knutsson, sax / Eva Kruse, b

14 Giv mig ej glans (Jean Sibelius / Zachris Topelius) 3:52
Album: Christmas With My Friends III (ACT 9527-2)
Ida Sand, vocals & piano

15 In Dulce Jubilo (traditional) 6:05
Album: It’s Snowing on my Piano (ACT 9260-2)
Bugge Wesseltoft, piano

16 Have Yourself a Little Christmas (Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane) 3:08
previously not released
Cæcilie Norby, vocals / Lars Danielsson, bass

17 Christmas Song (Mel Tormé / Bob Wells) 3:50
Album: Christmas With My Friends (ACT 9454-2)
Viktoria Tolstoy, vocals / Nils Landgren, vocals & trombone / Ulf Wakenius, guitar / Ida Sand, vocals & piano / Lars Danielsson, bass

18 Der Mond ist aufgegangen (traditional) 2:56
Album: Nature Boy (ACT 9938-2)
Nils Landgren, trombone

Compilation produced by Marco Ostrowski. Mastered by Klaus Scheuermann. Cover art (detail) by Philipp Taffee (Iris Diptych), Magic Book, 1994