While famously recorded several holiday classics, he surprisingly never released a full Christmas album. 2022's amends this by compiling all of the legendary trumpeter/vocalist's best-known holiday tunes. Included are such favorites as his duet with on "I've Got My Love to Keep Warm," his 1953 take on "'Zat You, Santa Clause," and the swinging "Christmas Night in Harlem" with the . We also get 's jovial original version of the title track and a rare 1971 home-recorded reading of the traditional poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas ('Twas the Night Before Christmas)," augmented here with nuanced and delicately rendered piano backing from . ~ Matt Collar