Joy A Holiday Collection Music Cd

Jewel - Joy A Holiday Collection

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Joy - A Holiday Collection      Artist : Jewel      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $10.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1999-11-02      Studio : Atlantic / Wea      Label : Atlantic / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (169 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Joy A Holiday Collection      Fantastic Christmas CD!      Rating:      I'm a certified Christmas-music junkie, so I only allow myself to purchase two new CD's each year. So, naturally, I'm very selective. This CD turned out to be everything I could have hoped and more. A nice mixture of traditional carols, religious and secular, and all delivered in the melodious tones Jewel delivers. Love it!     Customer Reviews for Joy A Holiday Collection Cd      Greatest Christmas Album ever!!!      Rating:      I'm actually not a Jewel fan. I don't really enjoy her style of music. I like Christmas music and I was worried I would regret purchasing this album. I did not want to hear her yodeling "O Holy Night". My worries were put to rest. Her version of "O Holy Night" surpassed Celine Dion's, which I thought was the best prior to hearing Jewel. She sung the Christian classics in a traditional manner, with a touch of her own style, with a voice surpassed by none. After hearing this album I'm convinced she is the greatest female vocalist of all-time. I still prefer Celine as an artist but that is a manner of taste. This album is the greatest Christmas album in my book. I highly recommend it even if your not a Jewel fan, like me. Just to make it clear, I'm not down on her other stuff. It's just a manner of individual music preference. Editorial Reviews for Joy A Holiday Collection Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Jewel has concocted an intriguing and at times beautifully inspired holiday album, playing it straight with a big orchestra and backing voices for the first half of the record with standards such as "Joy to the World," "Winter Wonderland," "Silent Night," as well as a lovely rendition of "Ave Maria." Things finally get sparkling in the last half where Jewel does a low-key, kid version of "Rudolph" and sings her own compositions. Her moving "Face of Love" and "Hands" are certain to become holiday standards, capable of being sung in a country, pop, gospel, or R&B vein and deserving of an audience as wide as the nation itself. The record's centerpiece, however, seems to be a six-minute-plus medley that mixes "Go Tell It on the Mountain" with the recent hit "From a Distance" and her own "Life Uncommon." Nonetheless, her stunning adaptation of "Gloria" inspired, in part, by Bach's B-Minor Mass, two tracks later is as powerful and lovely a Christmas vocal performance as you will find anywhere. Produced by the legendary Arif Mardin, Joy is destined to become a holiday classic. --Martin Keller