Christmas music can fill a house beautifully without anyone singing a word.
Instrumental holiday albums are especially useful during the moments when Christmas music should create atmosphere rather than command attention. Piano can accompany an evening of gift wrapping. Jazz works beautifully during dinner. Acoustic guitar feels at home beside a fireplace, while orchestral and brass arrangements can make decorating the tree feel unexpectedly grand.
The best instrumental Christmas albums also reveal just how adaptable familiar holiday melodies can be. “Silent Night” can become a fingerstyle guitar meditation, “Jingle Bells” can turn into surf rock, “Carol of the Bells” can become electronic classical music, and The Nutcracker can be transformed into big-band jazz.
This collection moves through several decades and styles rather than trying to make every album sound equally serene. Some are genuinely peaceful, some swing, some rock, and a few are energetic enough to make the Christmas lights seem brighter.
If you want a holiday soundtrack without a constant stream of lyrics, these 20 instrumental Christmas albums provide plenty of places to begin.
🎹 1. George Winston — December (1982)
Few instrumental albums capture the quiet side of winter as beautifully as George Winston’s December.
Released in 1982, the solo-piano recording was conceived as part of Winston’s exploration of the seasons rather than as a conventional collection of Christmas standards. That distinction matters. December feels less like a holiday party and more like looking through a window on a dark winter evening while snow begins falling outside.
Traditional pieces such as “Carol of the Bells” and “The Holly and the Ivy” appear alongside Winston originals and his well-known “Variations on the Kanon by Pachelbel.” The album also includes “Some Children See Him” and the beautifully understated closing piece “Peace.”
Because everything is carried by Winston’s piano, there is plenty of space in the music. Nothing rushes. Melodies can appear, disappear, and return without the pressure of vocals or large arrangements.
This is the album to play while reading beside the Christmas tree, writing cards, wrapping gifts late at night, or simply allowing December to become quiet for a while.
🎄 2. Mannheim Steamroller — Christmas (1984)
Mannheim Steamroller changed the sound of instrumental Christmas music in the 1980s.
Chip Davis and the group combined synthesizers, Renaissance influences, orchestral textures, percussion, and modern recording technology into something that did not sound quite like traditional classical music, rock, or easy listening.
Their first Christmas album, simply titled Christmas, arrived in 1984.
The program includes “Deck the Halls,” “We Three Kings,” “Good King Wenceslas,” “I Saw Three Ships,” “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” and other traditional selections, all recast in the distinctive Mannheim Steamroller sound.
Some arrangements are energetic and theatrical, while others are surprisingly restrained. The album is entirely instrumental, which makes it easy to play from beginning to end without interrupting conversation.
It also became enormously successful. Mannheim Steamroller’s official site notes that Christmas was certified six-times Platinum, demonstrating just how large an audience existed for instrumental holiday music that sounded contemporary rather than nostalgic.
✨ 3. Mannheim Steamroller — A Fresh Aire Christmas (1988)
Four years after Christmas, Mannheim Steamroller returned with another instrumental holiday album that pushed the group’s sound in a slightly more classical direction.
A Fresh Aire Christmas includes twelve arrangements drawn from Christmas traditions across several centuries. “The Holly and the Ivy,” “Still, Still, Still,” “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming,” “In dulci Jubilo,” “Greensleeves,” “Carol of the Bells,” and “Cantique de Noël” all receive the group’s elaborate treatment.
The arrangements can shift quickly from old-world instruments and delicate passages to synthesizers and larger cinematic textures.
That contrast is part of Mannheim Steamroller’s appeal.
The music sounds old and new at the same time.
If the 1984 Christmas album is a natural soundtrack for decorating the house, A Fresh Aire Christmas feels particularly suited to Christmas dinner or an evening when you want something festive but a little grander.
🎸 4. John Fahey — The New Possibility (1968)
Long before acoustic instrumental Christmas albums became a holiday-music category of their own, John Fahey had an unusual idea.
What would traditional Christmas music sound like played in his idiosyncratic steel-string guitar style?
The result was The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album, released in 1968.
Fahey stripped familiar carols away from choirs, orchestras, and elaborate arrangements and rebuilt them around solo acoustic guitar. “Joy to the World,” “What Child Is This?,” “We Three Kings of Orient Are,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “The First Noel,” and “Silent Night” all sound surprisingly intimate in his hands.
The album helped establish an entirely different possibility for Christmas music—one built around fingerpicking, open space, American folk traditions, blues influences, and the sound of one musician sitting with a guitar.
Fahey later recorded several more Christmas projects, but The New Possibility remains the essential starting point.
🎷 5. Oscar Peterson — An Oscar Peterson Christmas (1995)
Christmas standards become elegant jazz on An Oscar Peterson Christmas.
Released in 1995, the album places Peterson’s unmistakable piano at the center of a small ensemble featuring guitar, bass, drums, vibraphone, and flügelhorn.
Rather than treating familiar melodies as museum pieces, Peterson uses them as starting points for jazz conversation.
“White Christmas” becomes warm and spacious. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” swings. Other traditional songs provide opportunities for the musicians to move between recognizable melodies and improvisation.
The result feels sophisticated without becoming formal.
It is particularly good Christmas dinner music because it sounds festive while leaving room for conversation. The songs are familiar enough to create immediate holiday atmosphere, but the arrangements contain enough musical detail to reward closer listening later.
If your Christmas decorating style involves dim lights, candles, and something sparkling in a glass, Oscar Peterson belongs nearby.
🎹 6. Dave Brubeck — A Dave Brubeck Christmas (1996)
Dave Brubeck takes a completely different approach.
A Dave Brubeck Christmas is solo piano.
There is no rhythm section, no orchestra, and no attempt to turn the album into a large holiday production. Instead, one of the defining pianists of modern jazz explores Christmas melodies alone.
Brubeck’s selections include “Away in a Manger,” “Jingle Bells,” “Joy to the World,” “O Tannenbaum,” “Silent Night,” “What Child Is This,” and “Winter Wonderland,” alongside pieces including “To Us Is Given.”
Without a band surrounding him, the listener gets to hear Brubeck’s rhythmic imagination and harmonic personality unusually clearly.
Some passages are contemplative. Others suddenly become playful or rhythmically unexpected.
This is not anonymous background piano.
It sounds unmistakably like Dave Brubeck thinking his way through Christmas music.
For anyone who wants a peaceful album that is still musically interesting enough to command attention, it is an excellent choice.
☕ 7. Beegie Adair — Jazz Piano Christmas (1999)
Beegie Adair understood the art of making jazz sound effortless.
On Jazz Piano Christmas, her trio brings the same polished warmth to holiday standards that Adair brought to the Great American Songbook throughout her career.
The collection includes “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “The Christmas Song,” “White Christmas,” “The Christmas Waltz,” and “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”
Adair is joined by bassist Roger Spencer and drummer Chris Brown, creating the comfortable intimacy of a small jazz lounge rather than a massive Christmas spectacle.
Nothing feels rushed or overdecorated.
That makes the album exceptionally versatile. It works during dinner, while guests are arriving, during a quiet afternoon, or after everyone has gone home and the Christmas tree is the only light left in the room.
🎹 8. David Benoit — Christmas Time (1983)
Before David Benoit became one of the best-known names in contemporary jazz, he recorded Christmas Time.
The 1983 album places Benoit’s piano in a quartet setting with guitar, bass, and drums and gives traditional Christmas music a distinctly jazz-oriented treatment.
Selections include “Christmastime Is Here,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” “Greensleeves,” and other familiar seasonal melodies.
Benoit’s later connection with the music of Vince Guaraldi makes “Christmastime Is Here” particularly interesting, but the album has an identity of its own.
This is Christmas jazz with a relaxed West Coast character.
It is less nostalgic than Beegie Adair and less virtuosically intense than Oscar Peterson, making it especially useful when you want holiday music that quietly changes the atmosphere without taking over the room.
🎷 9. Kenny G — Miracles: The Holiday Album (1994)
Few instrumental holiday albums were commercially bigger in the 1990s than Kenny G’s Miracles: The Holiday Album.
The saxophonist turns standards including “Winter Wonderland,” “White Christmas,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Silent Night,” “Greensleeves,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “Silver Bells,” and “Away in a Manger” into the smooth-jazz sound that made him enormously popular.
This is unapologetically polished Christmas music.
There are synthesizers, glossy arrangements, gentle rhythms, and Kenny G’s soprano saxophone floating over nearly everything.
Listeners who prefer rough edges or hard-swinging jazz will probably reach for Oscar Peterson or Booker T. & the M.G.’s instead. But for a calm, highly recognizable 1990s holiday atmosphere, Miracles does exactly what it promises.
Put it on during a quiet Christmas dinner and the decade may return almost immediately.
🎸 10. Booker T. & the M.G.’s — In the Christmas Spirit (1966)
Christmas music does not have to sound delicate.
Booker T. & the M.G.’s proved that in 1966 with In the Christmas Spirit.
The legendary Stax instrumental group applies its distinctive combination of Hammond organ, guitar, bass, and drums to songs including “Jingle Bells,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” “Winter Wonderland,” “White Christmas,” “Silver Bells,” and “We Three Kings.”
These are Christmas standards with groove.
Booker T. Jones’s organ immediately gives the album a warmer, earthier character than most orchestral Christmas records, while Steve Cropper’s guitar adds another unmistakable voice.
The album works beautifully when you want Christmas music without sweetness becoming the dominant flavor.
It sounds like Memphis.
It happens to be Christmas.
🌊 11. The Ventures — The Ventures’ Christmas Album (1965)
What happens when surf guitar collides with Christmas?
The Ventures’ Christmas Album provides the answer.
Released in 1965, the record takes familiar songs including “Sleigh Ride,” “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” “Jingle Bells,” “Silver Bells,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and “White Christmas” and filters them through the Ventures’ twangy electric-guitar sound.
The joke goes even further.
Several arrangements borrow musical ideas from contemporary rock and instrumental hits. “Sleigh Ride,” for example, incorporates the feel of the Ventures’ own “Walk, Don’t Run,” while other tracks playfully reference recognizable mid-1960s sounds.
This is not the album for a candlelit meditation beside the tree.
It is the album for decorating cookies, putting lights on the house, or adding a little retro energy to a Christmas party.
Sixty years later, it still sounds like nobody else’s Christmas record.
🎸 12. Tuck Andress — Hymns, Carols and Songs About Snow (1991)
Tuck Andress creates an astonishing amount of music with one guitar.
On Hymns, Carols and Songs About Snow, released in 1991, he performs holiday music on solo electric guitar, simultaneously handling melody, harmony, rhythm, and bass movement.
There are no layers of singers or orchestras to hide behind.
The program includes “Winter Wonderland,” “Silent Night,” “Jingle Bells,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “Deck the Halls,” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
The arrangements combine jazz, classical technique, humor, and astonishing fingerstyle playing.
Yet the virtuosity rarely feels like showing off simply for its own sake.
If you like John Fahey’s guitar-based Christmas music but want something more overtly jazzy and technically dazzling, this album makes an excellent companion.
🌌 13. Windham Hill — A Winter’s Solstice (1985)
Not every winter album needs to contain nothing but Christmas carols.
Windham Hill’s A Winter’s Solstice approached the season more broadly.
Released in 1985, the compilation features artists associated with the label’s acoustic and contemporary instrumental sound, including William Ackerman, Liz Story, Philip Aaberg, Mark Isham, Shadowfax, and others.
Some selections have obvious seasonal connections. Liz Story performs “Greensleeves,” while David Qualey opens with Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” Other pieces evoke winter through mood rather than familiar Christmas melodies.
That is precisely what makes the album so useful.
It creates a winter atmosphere without repeating the same Christmas songs everyone has already heard dozens of times by mid-December.
Play it while watching snow fall, reading, working, or simply trying to decompress after an overstuffed day of holiday preparations.
🕯️ 14. David Lanz — Christmas Eve (1994)
David Lanz’s Christmas Eve belongs to the gentler side of contemporary instrumental Christmas music.
Released in 1994, the album moves through traditional carols and short original pieces with piano at the center.
“Angels We Have Heard on High,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “Joy to the World,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “What Child Is This,” “Silent Night,” and “O Holy Night” are joined by brief compositions such as “Angel of Comfort,” “Angel of Joy,” and “Angel of Hope.”
The sequencing gives the album an almost continuous quality.
Rather than sounding like a collection of disconnected Christmas standards, it feels like one long winter evening unfolding.
This is especially good late-night music, when the brighter Christmas albums have done their job and the house has finally become quiet.
🌟 15. David Arkenstone — Christmas Spirit (2003)
David Arkenstone brings cinematic scale to traditional Christmas carols on Christmas Spirit: An Instrumental Soundtrack for Seasonal Celebrations.
The title describes the album accurately.
This is fully instrumental holiday music designed to create atmosphere.
“Good King Wenceslas,” “Angels We Have Heard on High,” “What Child Is This?,” “Joy to the World,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” “The Coventry Carol,” “We Three Kings,” “The First Noel,” and “I Saw Three Ships” receive contemporary arrangements with keyboards and layered instrumental textures.
The result is larger and more dramatic than solo piano but still gentle enough for background listening.
If George Winston represents Christmas in a quiet room and Booker T. represents Christmas in Memphis, David Arkenstone offers something closer to a sweeping winter landscape.
🎺 16. Christmas With the Canadian Brass and the Great Organ of St. Patrick’s Cathedral (1981)
Brass instruments have been associated with Christmas music for centuries, and few ensembles demonstrate why as convincingly as Canadian Brass.
For this 1981 album, the quintet was joined by the great organ of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
The repertoire is filled with familiar carols: “Jingle Bells,” “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” “Joy to the World,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” “O Holy Night,” “The Holly and the Ivy,” “Silent Night,” “Good King Wenceslas,” “What Child Is This?,” and “The First Noël.”
Brass and organ give the music tremendous physical presence.
A quiet arrangement can feel reverent, while the larger pieces sound capable of filling an entire cathedral.
This is an especially good choice for listeners who want traditional Christmas music without voices and without the softness associated with piano or acoustic guitar albums.
🎸 17. Various Artists — Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas (1997)
Merry Axemas is what happens when Christmas music is handed to a room full of guitar heroes.
Released in 1997, the compilation includes contributions from Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani, Steve Morse, Steve Vai, Joe Perry, Alex Lifeson, Richie Sambora, and others.
The results range widely.
Eric Johnson approaches “The First Nowell,” Jeff Beck performs “Amazing Grace,” Joe Satriani stretches “Silent Night” into an extended guitar exploration, Steve Vai tackles “Christmas Time Is Here,” and Alex Lifeson takes on “The Little Drummer Boy.”
This is not background music for a formal Christmas dinner.
Electric guitars are very much the point.
But for rock listeners who want seasonal music without abandoning the sound they enjoy during the other eleven months of the year, Merry Axemas is enormous fun.
🎹 18. Lorie Line — Christmas Instrumentals With Added Flair (2021)
Lorie Line has built a long career around piano-centered instrumental music, and Christmas has been a recurring part of her catalog.
Christmas Instrumentals With Added Flair makes its purpose clear in the title.
The album takes familiar seasonal material and gives it polished piano-led arrangements designed for festive listening rather than vocal performance.
Line’s style works particularly well for homes where Christmas music needs to sit comfortably beneath conversation, cooking, decorating, or family gatherings.
The piano keeps the melodies recognizable while the arrangements give them enough movement to avoid becoming anonymous background music.
This is also a useful modern counterpoint to the older piano albums on the list. George Winston, Dave Brubeck, Beegie Adair, and Lorie Line may all begin at a keyboard, but they arrive at Christmas from very different musical directions.
🎷 19. Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn — The Nutcracker Suite (1960)
Tchaikovsky probably did not anticipate “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” becoming big-band jazz.
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn did.
Their 1960 Nutcracker Suite reimagines music from Tchaikovsky’s ballet through the language of the Ellington orchestra.
Familiar pieces acquire new titles and personalities. “Dance of the Reed Pipes” becomes “Toot Toot Tootie Toot.” The march turns into “Peanut Brittle Brigade.” “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” becomes the wonderfully slinky “Sugar Rum Cherry.”
The project is much more than a novelty.
Ellington and Strayhorn understood Tchaikovsky’s material well enough to reshape it without destroying its identity. Melodies remain recognizable even as harmonies, rhythms, instrumentation, and swing transform them.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has highlighted the recording as an extraordinary jazz reimagining of the 1892 ballet.
For a Christmas gathering that could use something more adventurous than another collection of carols, this is indispensable.
🎸 20. Chet Atkins — Christmas With Chet Atkins (1961)
Chet Atkins closes the list with one of the warmest guitar-centered Christmas records of its era.
Released in 1961, Christmas With Chet Atkins includes “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Jolly Old St. Nicholas,” “White Christmas,” “Blue Christmas,” “Jingle Bells,” “Silver Bells,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “The First Noel,” and “Silent Night.”
Atkins’s guitar remains the main attraction.
His clean tone and extraordinary fingerstyle technique allow familiar melodies to sound relaxed and intimate rather than heavily orchestrated.
Some versions of the album also feature backing vocals from the Anita Kerr Singers, so this is the least strictly wordless selection on this list. I would still include it because its identity is overwhelmingly built around Atkins’s instrumental guitar arrangements rather than vocal performances.
It feels like Christmas music played in a comfortable living room rather than produced for a giant holiday spectacular.
That makes it an especially appropriate place to finish.
🎶 What Makes Instrumental Christmas Music So Useful?
Lyrics naturally attract attention.
That is wonderful when you want to sing along, but it can become distracting when Christmas music is accompanying something else.
Instrumental albums occupy a useful middle ground. They make a room feel unmistakably seasonal without requiring everyone to listen actively.
That makes them especially good for Christmas dinner, reading, working, wrapping gifts, decorating cookies, writing cards, or welcoming guests.
The variety matters too.
Instrumental Christmas music does not describe one sound. George Winston and the Ventures are barely in the same musical universe. Booker T. & the M.G.’s sound nothing like Mannheim Steamroller. Dave Brubeck, John Fahey, Kenny G, and Duke Ellington each approach familiar holiday melodies with completely different musical vocabularies.
The songs stay recognizable.
The Christmas around them changes.
🎹 Best Instrumental Christmas Albums for Quiet Evenings
For the calmest listening, begin with George Winston’s December.
Its solo piano and spacious arrangements are almost impossible to beat for a quiet December evening.
David Lanz’s Christmas Eve occupies similar territory but leans more heavily into traditional Christmas carols, while Windham Hill’s A Winter’s Solstice works particularly well if you want winter music without hearing a familiar carol every few minutes.
Dave Brubeck offers another solo-piano option, although his rhythmic personality makes the music more active and unpredictable.
John Fahey and Tuck Andress provide the guitar equivalents. Both can fill a room gently, but neither sounds like generic acoustic background music.
These albums reward attention without demanding it.
🎷 Best Christmas Jazz Albums
Christmas standards and jazz were made for one another.
The melodies are familiar enough that musicians can change harmonies, rhythms, tempos, and arrangements without losing the listener.
Oscar Peterson’s Christmas album is the strongest choice when you want a sophisticated small-group jazz sound. Beegie Adair is warmer and more relaxed, making her Jazz Piano Christmas particularly good during meals or gatherings.
David Benoit’s Christmas Time brings in a lighter contemporary-jazz sound.
Then there is Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Nutcracker Suite, which sits in a category almost entirely its own.
None of these albums treat Christmas music as sacred material that must remain unchanged.
They treat it as music.
That is exactly why the results are so interesting.
🎸 Best Instrumental Christmas Albums for Guitar Lovers
Guitarists could build an entire Christmas collection without ever needing another instrument.
John Fahey’s The New Possibility is the historical cornerstone, bringing traditional carols into his acoustic steel-string language in 1968.
Chet Atkins approaches the season from Nashville with immaculate fingerstyle technique.
Tuck Andress makes one electric guitar sound like an entire ensemble.
The Ventures send Christmas directly to a mid-1960s surf-rock party.
And Merry Axemas turns the holiday into a playground for some of rock’s most recognizable guitarists.
The instrument stays the same.
Everything else changes.
🍽️ Best Instrumental Christmas Albums for Dinner
Dinner music has a difficult job.
It needs to create an atmosphere without competing with conversation.
Beegie Adair is almost ideal for this. Her trio is relaxed, polished, and immediately seasonal.
Oscar Peterson provides something slightly livelier, while David Benoit works well for a more contemporary setting.
For something completely different, Booker T. & the M.G.’s can give Christmas dinner an understated soul groove.
If the meal is formal, Canadian Brass brings considerably more grandeur.
And if the family spends dinner loudly debating politics, sports, or whose recipe is the correct one, you may need Mannheim Steamroller simply to compete.
🎁 Best Instrumental Albums for Wrapping Presents
Gift wrapping benefits from a little more energy.
The Ventures can keep things moving through a mountain of paper and ribbon, while Merry Axemas is ideal if you would rather hear electric guitars than sleigh bells.
Mannheim Steamroller also works beautifully here because its arrangements frequently build and change, preventing the music from disappearing completely into the background.
Booker T. & the M.G.’s may be the secret weapon.
It is festive enough for December but funky enough that wrapping the twentieth present no longer feels quite so monotonous.
The tape will still disappear every five minutes.
No album can solve that.
🕯️ Best Albums for Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve calls for something quieter.
George Winston’s December, David Lanz’s Christmas Eve, John Fahey’s The New Possibility, and the first Windham Hill Winter’s Solstice collection all work beautifully as the evening slows down.
Canadian Brass is particularly effective if you prefer traditional carols with a more reverent character, especially when organ joins the brass.
Chet Atkins can make the room feel intimate without becoming sleepy.
The goal is not necessarily to fill every silence.
Sometimes the best Christmas music leaves enough room to hear the house becoming quiet.
🎄 Instrumental Christmas Music Doesn’t Have to Be Background Music
“Instrumental” is sometimes treated as another word for background music.
These albums demonstrate why that is far too limiting.
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn radically reinterpret Tchaikovsky. John Fahey creates a new language for Christmas guitar. Booker T. & the M.G.’s move carols into the world of Memphis soul. The Ventures turn them into surf rock. Mannheim Steamroller combines early music, synthesizers, and modern production into a style that became its own holiday institution.
Even the quieter albums have distinct personalities.
George Winston does not sound like Dave Brubeck simply because both are playing piano.
Chet Atkins does not sound like Tuck Andress simply because both are holding guitars.
The absence of lyrics creates more room for interpretation, not less.
❤️ Finding Your Own Christmas Soundtrack
Christmas music is intensely personal.
One family cannot imagine December without Bing Crosby. Another reaches immediately for Motown. Someone else wants sacred choral music, jazz, country, rock, or the same album their parents played when they were children.
Instrumental Christmas music gives you another option.
It can sit quietly beneath the rituals of the season or become something worth listening to closely on its own.
Start with George Winston if you want calm.
Try Booker T. & the M.G.’s if you want groove.
Choose the Ventures for retro fun, Mannheim Steamroller for drama, Oscar Peterson for jazz, John Fahey for acoustic guitar, Canadian Brass for traditional grandeur, or Duke Ellington when you want to hear a familiar Christmas work transformed completely.
There is no single correct soundtrack for December.
That is part of the pleasure.
The tree can look the same every year.
The music does not have to.
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📚 Sources & Further Reading
- George Winston — December
- Mannheim Steamroller — Christmas
- Mannheim Steamroller — A Fresh Aire Christmas
- Concord — Christmas Guitar Soli With John Fahey
- John Fahey — The New Possibility Track Listing
- Concord — An Oscar Peterson Christmas
- Dave Brubeck — A Dave Brubeck Christmas
- Beegie Adair — Jazz Piano Christmas
- Canadian Brass — Discography
- Canadian Brass — The Christmas Album
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History — Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite
- Windham Hill — A Winter’s Solstice Collection
- Tuck Andress — Hymns, Carols and Songs About Snow
- David Arkenstone — Christmas Spirit
