December

On Sleeve: Track A1 inspired by friends and places of Miles City, Montana. Track A2 an Appalachian carol of the late Eighteen Hundreds. Collected by the eminent folklorist John Jacob Niles. Track A3 inspired by an arrangement by guitarist David Qualey. Track A4 inspired by Vince Guaraldi. Track A5 a Nineteenth Century Ukrainian carol. Track A6 Part One: Snow 1:51 Part Two: Midnight 1:56 Part Three: Minstrels 2:00 Minstrels was inspired by St. Basil's Hymn, a traditional Greek children's New Year's carol based upon a rendition by Malcolm Dalgish, from his album Thunderhead, on Flying Fish Records. Track B1 composed circa 1699, the Kanon was originally an organ piece. Track B2 an Eighteenth Century English carol based upon an earlier French carol. Track B3 composed in 1951 by Jazz trumpeter Alfred S. Burt [1921 - 1954]. Some Children See Him was one of fifteen carols written as gifts for friends. The piece was originally a song with lyrics by Wilha Hutson expressing the unconditional love present within children. This recording was made direct to two-track using a Studer A 80 VU MK III half-inch recorder at thirty inches per second. No noise reduction was employed. KEF speakers were used for audio monitoring and referencing on this recording. ℗&© Windham Hill Records. Trademark owned by Windham Hill Records Inc., Stanford Calif., U.S.A. and used by Festival Records Pty. Limited, under authorization. Manufactured and distributed under licence from A&M Records Inc., U.S.A. by Festival Records Pty. Limited, Australia. On Labels: ℗& (C) 1982 Windham Hill Records Inc., U.S.A. Made in Australia by Festival Records Pty. Ltd.