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Joy - A Holiday Collection
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
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Tracks| 1 | Joy to the World | | 2 | O Holy Night | | 3 | Silent Night | | 4 | Winter Wonderland | | 5 | O Little Town of Bethlehem | | 6 | Ave Maria | | 7 | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | | 8 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | | 9 | Face of Love | | 10 | Medley: Go Tell It on the Mountain/Life Uncommon/From a Distance | | 11 | I Wonder as I Wander | | 12 | Gloria | | 13 | Hands [Christmas Version] |
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