Best Audiophile Christmas Recordings

the manhattan transfer-the christmas album,the charlie byrd christmas album on concord,a concord jazz christmas,warner bros.jazz christmas party, jingle cats meowy christmas(deep bass), a merry jazzmas on rca/novus, john pizzarelli-lets share christmas, surfin christmas featuring the beach boys, star of wonder on reference recordings, liona boyd-a gkuitar for christmas, mannheim steamroller christmas, elmo + patsy-grandma got run over by a reindeer, wynton marsalis-crescent city christmas card, daavid grismans acoustic christmas, david benoit-christmastime, emmylou harris-light of the stable>the christmas album, yule struttin'*a blue note christmas, a jazz christmas*host jazz for a cool night on musicmasters, god rest ye merry jazzmaen on columbia, jingle bell jazz on columbia, paul horn-the peace album........is that enough?

You want good performances and great audio, go with the discs of Christmas arrangements for quartet on the John Marks record label.

Jewels Christmas recording is great.

Trans Siberian Orchestra "Christmas Eve and Other Stories"

Two of my favorites are: 1. Liona Boyd: A Guitar For Christmas 2. Cantate Domino (Proprius label) - although not strictly an Xmas record, it features a number of Xmas carols. This recording has been a standard in my home at Xmas, ever since the recording was first released. Cantate Domino has also been on a number of "Best of" audiophile lists.