Grammy-winning singer Anita Baker gives give her fans a reason to rejoice this holiday season when Blue Note releases Christmas Fantasy on October 25th, her first-ever disc of Christmas music. Produced and arranged by Baker and Barry Eastmond, the album mixes traditional Christmas carols (“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”), standards (“I’ll Be Home For Christmas”), re-imagined classics (“Frosty’s Rag”), Broadway show tunes (“My Favorite Things”), and three new songs by Baker and Eastmond (“Moonlight Sleighride,” “Family of Man,” and “Christmas Fantasy”), all tied together with Baker’s warm, rapturous voice.
Anita enlists the help of a few friends in her Christmas Fantasy, including Joe Sample on piano, Larry Carlton on guitar, Nathan East on bass, Ricky Lawson on drums, and jazz quartet The Yellowjackets. Christmas Fantasy comes on the heels of 2004’s gold-certified My Everything (Blue Note), her first album of new material in 10 years.
