Joyful jazz! - Christmas with Verve!, volume 1 : the vocalists!

"Two volumes of "Joyful Jazz! - Christmas With Verve!" compile gems from the label's extensive vault. "The Vocalists!" begins with Mel Tormé hooking his prize ornament "The Christmas Song" onto the company tree. Also decorating, with stellar renditions of seasonal songs, are herald angels Louis Armstrong (with his zany "Zat You, Santa Claus?"), Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Shirley Horn and Betty Carter ... Trumpet soloists, here and there, fare well stringing the multicolored lights. But instances of extreme sentimentality are like lumps of coal".