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Jingle bells jangling on your nerves? Jim Wilson brings a more mellow approach to holiday music with My First Christmas With You. My favorite tracks on this cd are the instrumentals  with Wilson's tender piano renderings. Also featured are Dan Fogelberg, Lisa Lynne, Nathan East, and Stephen Bishop. Dan Fogelberg's vocals are a standout, of course. All of the songs are warm, intimate, and soothing arrangements that will help holiday stress and lighten the heart.

Drummers, rejoice! Narada World Music has just released Mondo Beat 2: Masters of Percussion. This powerful drum experience includes tracks from: Grammy winner and ethnomusicologist Mickey Hart with “Wheels of Time”; Greg Ellis with “Ceremony of Passage”; Brazilian legend Airto Moreira on “Batuka da Indio”. If your taste in drumming is sophisticated, look no farther; the polyrhythmic  sophistication of this CD reveals true mastership.