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Christmas music

  • Pianist Kenny Barron performs as the audience looks out at the Opera House at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. CREDIT: Felix Contreras
    Music
    A Jazz Piano Christmas: 2020
    NPR News
    This year's edition of "A Jazz Piano Christmas" features REDWOOD, Cory Henry and Kenny Barron. We're celebrating the holidays with swing from the East Coast jazz scene.
  • Thousands of new holiday songs have been released since 1994, but none have become standards in the way pop songs about Christmas routinely did in the '60s, '70s and '80s. What's the challenge of cracking the tiny yuletide canon? CREDIT: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images
    Music
    Why Are New Standard Christmas Songs So Rare These Days?
    NPR News
    Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is back at the top of the chart a quarter century after it was first released. So why haven't there been any lasting Christmas songs to take its place?