In the Wilderness / Yuletide Edition 12/02/25

Oat Nog Alert! Mostly moody (and maybe a little bit merry) it’s an all-Yuletide hour for the holiday season. From fingerstyle guitar to choral to jazz to cabaret to gospel, here’s your chill soundtrack for snowfall, visions of sugar plums, and that crackling Yule log in your virtual fireplace… Neil Molloy hosts.  

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S O U N D S   B Y : 

Sean Smith  Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas, Tompkins Square)

Cantus  Ēriks Ešenvalds: Stars (The COVID-19 Sessions, Signum Classics)

Geri Allen  Christmas Medley (A Child is Born, Motéma Music)

Charlie Hunter  Christmas Time is Here (Yule Be Boppin’, Blue Note)

Paul Desmond w/The Modern Jazz Quartet  Greensleeves (Live in New York 1971, Red Baron Records) 

fill: Martin Denny  Exotic Night (Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails Part 2, Capitol)

Blossom Dearie & Bob Dorough  Baby, it’s Cold Outside (Needlepoint Magic, Daffodil Records)

Ben Webster & Matty Peters   Baby, it’s Cold Outside, take 4 (Dig Ben!, Storyville)

“Lockjaw” Davis & Shirley Scott  The Christmas Song (The Christmas Collection, Original Jazz Classics)

fill: Xavier de Maistre  Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Christmas Harp, Sony Classical)

Sean Smith  It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Christmas, Tompkins Square)

Elizabeth Mitchell   Silent Night (The Sounding Joy: Christmas Songs In and Out of the Ruth Crawford Seeger Songbook, Smithsonian Folkways)

Ernie Mae Miller  Go Tell it on the Mountain (I'll Be Home for Kwanzaa, Bagel Label / DiverseArts)

Mahalia Jackson  Silent Night, Holy Night (Sweet Little Jesus Boy, Columbia)

Brad Mehldau   Christmas Time is Here (Jazz Christmas Party, Warner Bros.)