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Three sisters - Rae, Vicki and Shelley - are the core of this mixed group's clean and contemporary jazz sound. About half accompanied, the CD begins with a Gene Puerling arrangement of 'The Christmas Song' (a second Puerling chart, 'Deck The Halls,' is a cappella). Michele Weir's version of 'A Child Is Born' (certainly one of the loveliest of Christmas carols) includes a vocal trombone solo by Denis Allaire. Phil Mattson's a cappella 'Here We Come A Caroling' offsets the first verse with a delightful four-bar countermelody; it's these little touches that elevate a song from the pedestrian to the remarkable. |