Bett Butler - Winter Lullaby: Songs for the Christmas Child (2016)

Tracklist

01. Angels We Have Heard on High (feat. Joel Dilley)
02. Are You Alone for Christmas Day (feat. Joel Dilley)
03. No Place Like Home for Christmas (feat. Joel Dilley)
04. Pat-A-Pan (feat. Joel Dilley)
05. Gesu Bambino (feat. Joel Dilley)
06. Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night) [feat. Joel Dilley]
07. Someone’s Child
08. La Virgen Fue Lavandera (feat. Joel Dilley)
09. Un Flambeau (Bring a Torch), Jeanette Isabella [feat. Joel Dilley]
10. El Noi de la Mare (feat. Joel Dilley)
11. Shine (feat. Joel Dilley)
12. Winter Lullaby (feat. Joel Dilley)



In her eclectic fourth album, Bett Butler mixes originals with beloved holiday standards in multiple languages, many with her own English translations. Her bouncy bossa nova “Are You Alone for Christmas Day” recalls Astrid Gilberto and Stan Getz, with an elegant sax solo by Rene Saenz; and in “No Place Like Home for Christmas,” also featuring Saenz, Coltrane meets Clooney (Rosemary, not George). “Pat-a-Pan” veers firmly into Klezmer territory, and Butler’s four-octave range becomes a boys’ choir on “Gesu Bambino.” “O Holy Night” and “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” blend classical and jazz in intimate, lively chamber ensembles. Producer/arranger Joël Dilley sets the album’s title song “Winter Lullaby” in the kind of rhythmic and ethereal landscape familiar to fans of his Mandala Meditation Series, lushly underpinning the chorus: “Even angels have to sleep sometime, but they’re never far away.”

Writes Austin music critic Michael Corcoran: “A true artist....Her forte is creating rich story songs…we have to call jazz because the right word hasn’t been invented.” In historic and culturally rich San Antonio, Texas, she co-owns Mandala Music Production with bassist/composer/ producer Joël Dilley, where they play fetch with their boxer Mingus and create music licensed for use on HBO, Discovery Channel, Cooking, Travel, and Playboy Channels, and more.

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