For those unaware, a new holiday offering is afoot, famed Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo and vocalist Pamela Driggs join forces once again to create a holiday offering destined for holiday playlists and offering joy for seasons to come.

The pair explains, “We set out to make an intimate Holiday album inspired by love and gratitude for family and friends, evoking the spirit of the season. We’ve always loved and been inspired by the Christmas song recordings of the 50’s: Ella, Frank, Rosemary, Mel, and wanted to give them a Brazilian twist with cozy, relaxing bossa nova, samba, samba canção, and a waltz or two.”

The album offers an acoustic warmth of music, as well as lush vocal arrangements. The two further, “It was a pleasure to work with some of the best Brazilian and jazz musicians on the planet, all friends who feel like family. And it’s a dream to have our daughter, Luisa, featured on the album as well. It’s our gift to you this Holiday season to enjoy with your family and friends. Happy Holidays, Pamela and Romero.”

1. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
2. I’ll Be Home for Christmas
3. Holiday of Love
4. Christmas Love Song
5. Silent Night
6. Presente de Natal
7. Winter Reverie
8. The Christmas Song
9. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
10. White Christmas
11. Jingle Bells
12. Toyland

On what is a dutifully honed holiday collection, this new recording opens on the luxuriant Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and the pure gossamer of I’ll Be Home for Christmas, and then we get given the dulcet beauty of Holiday of Love, a certain stillness that threads through Christmas Love Song, the harmonized Silent Night, before the hipsway of Presente de Natal is brought forth.

Along next is the rhythmically ornate Winter Reverie and the delicate The Christmas Song, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the joyfully-hued Santa Claus is Coming to Town, a nuanced White Christmas, the set rounding out on the veritably translucent Jingle Bells, closing on the finespun Toyland.

Musicians:
Romero Lubambo: guitar and percussion; all arrangements
Pamela Driggs: vocals, background vocals
Luisa Lubambo: vocal, background vocals, all background vocal arrangements
Peter Martin: piano
Vitor Gonçalves: accordion
Joe Locke: vibraphone
Itaiguara Brandão: bass
Rafael Barata: drums

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