I’m a big fan of Peter White, the Smooth Jazz guitarist and record producer. White’s Christmas Concert featured plenty of fun music and three guests: saxophonist Euge Groove, singer Lindsey Webster, and multi-talented Vincent Ingala (sax, guitar, and bells). I had no idea Peter White wrote “Wonderful Christmastime,” a popular Holiday song. If Peter White and his crew shows up in your neighborhood, I recommend you buy some tickets to one of the better Christmas shows around. Do you have a favorite Holiday song? GRADE: A
SET LIST:
The Little Drummer Boy
(The Trapp Family Singers cover) (with Lindsey Webster & Euge Groove)
O Tannenbaum
(with Lindsey Webster & Euge Groove)
This Christmas
(Donny Hathaway cover) (with Euge Groove)
Home for the Holidays
(Perry Como cover) (with Vincent Ingala)
Christmastime Is Here
(Vince Guaraldi Trio cover) (with Euge Groove)
Wonderful Christmastime
(Paul McCartney cover) (with Vincent Ingala & Euge Groove)
O Christmas Tree
(with Vincent Angala & Euge Groove)
Jingle Bell Rock
(Bobby Helms cover) (with & Euge Groove)
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
(Brenda Lee cover) (with Lindsey Webster & Euge Groove)
Run Rudolph Run
(Chuck Berry cover) (with Vincent Angala & Euge Groove)
Jingle Bells
(James Lord Pierpont cover) (with Lindsey Webster)
Go Tell It On the Mountain
(with Vincent Angala & Euge Groove)
White Christmas
(Irving Berlin cover) (with Lindsey Webster, Vincent Ingala & Euge Groove; sung acapella)
Silent Night
(Joseph Mohr & Franz Gruber cover) (with Euge Groove)
Sleigh Ride
(with Vincent Ingala & Euge Groove)
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
(Mel Tormé cover) (with Euge Groove)
INTERMISSION
Blue Christmas
(Doye O’Dell cover) (with Euge Groove)
Livin’ Large
(Euge Groove cover) (with Vincent Ingala & Euge Groove)
Bueno Funk / Get Up, Stand Up / Bueno Funk
(with Vincent Ingala & Euge Groove)
Grazing in the Grass / Chinese Dance from “The Nutcracker Suite” / Groovin’ / Just My Imagination / Shotgun / Grazing in the Grass (reprise)
(with Lindsey Webster, Vincent Ingala & Euge Groove)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
(with Lindsey Webster, Vincent Ingala & Euge Groove)
ENCORE
So This Is Christas/Oh, Holy Night
(John Lennon cover) (with Lindsey Webster, Vincent Ingala & Euge Groove)