Mistletoe and Merriment 2003 Hear Music/EMI   J110122     This one will reside on your playlist to be played every year between Thanksgiving and New Year for many years.  Starting with Ella’s dreamy and whimsical White Christmas and ending with Benny Green’s rare version of Thelonious Monk’s A Merrier Christmas the collection is firmly stamped Christmas Jazz.  Highlights include: the refined festivity of Tony Bennet’s My Favorite Things, The Beach Boys’ Little Saint Nick, and the funky hammond organ of Jimmy Smith’s Jingle Bells.  “Simply gettin’ down with the Holidays.”