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Does anyone have a recommendation for an advanced intermediate to beginning advanced level collection of holiday favorites? So much of the holiday music seems poorly arranged. Perhaps with more of a jazz edge to it than chorale (4 voice) style. Suggestions?
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Jessica, here are some suggestions. They contain some jazz-infused arrangements as well as more traditional, and both styles are quite effective:
1 Big Red & Green Book of Christmas Piano Solos various arrangers Word Music
2 Big Ivory Book of Jazz Piano Solos Word Music various arrangers (contains several Christmas selections in the collection).
3 Jazz up Your Christmas Lee Evans Hal Leonard
4 A Joyful Christmas Lee Evans Hal Leonard
5 Christmas Tapestry Bruce Greer Benson Music
5 Emmanuel Mark Hayes Lorenz
6 Well Tempered Christmas Mark Hayes Shawnee Press
7 Christmas Reflections for Piano Teresa Wilhelmi Lillenas
Hopefully, this will be of some help to you.
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I have a Christmas collection here: LinkThey are more "fun interpretations" than arrangements - if you want to hear them, the individual pieces have a media player embedded. Coupon code PIANOWORLD25 will get you 25% off 
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Cudo - that is really quiet beautiful, thanks for posting.
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I have an extremely large collection of intermediate to advanced arrangements of Christmas music. Maybe one of the largest on the planet. Just PM if you're interested in the mediafire link.
This is my Christmas program for 2012 which only includes a small fraction of my collection.
Arranger: Song
John Bayless: White Christmas, Christmas Medley (O Come All Ye Faithful, Angels We Have Heard On High, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing)
Dick Wellstood: Jingle Bells
J. Fred Coots: Santa Claus is Coming To Town
Jacob Koller: Jingle Bells
John Eidsvoog: Three Christmas Postcards (Auld Lang Syne, Santa Claus Is Comin', O Holy Night)
Mike Garson: Home For Christmas, The Christmas Song, Joy To The World, O Holy Night, Avinu Malkenu, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
George Winston: Carol Of The Bells
Rada Neal: O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Nikki Iles: The Christmas Song, I Saw Three Shops, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Bill Edwards: Amazing Grace
Rosenblatt: Silent Night
Lee Evans: O Christmas Tree, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Ding Dong Merrily On High
Keveren: Feliz Navidad
Stan Zielinski: Hark The Herald Angels Sing, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good Christian Men Rejoice
Keil: White Christmas, Lo How A Rose E're Blooming
Gregory Stone: White Christmas
Sally Deford: Good King Wenceslas, Once In David’s Royal City, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, The First Noel, Deck The Halls, Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming, God Rest Merry Gentlemen
Dan Coates: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Edward Elgar: Jersualem
Max Reger: Silent Night
Alana LaGrange: Boogie Jingle Bells
Steve Calderone: We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Ricardo Boppre: The Little Drummer Boy
Hubert Garavel: Mon Beau Sapin
Fujisawa: Far Away
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Thank you! This helps so much. Cudo, your arrangement is lovely. I can only access the first arrangement though.
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Those links don't work for me. 
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Does anyone have a recommendation for an advanced intermediate to beginning advanced level collection of holiday favorites? So much of the holiday music seems poorly arranged. Perhaps with more of a jazz edge to it than chorale (4 voice) style. Suggestions? I am not a Jazz person usually, but the 'easy piano' Charlie Brown Christmas by Hal Lenord is, without doubt, the goto book for easy Christmas music that everyone will adore. It sounds great and isn't something you will have to spend months working on prior to Christmas. http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-TM-Songbook/dp/B00166EKW6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2
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I have a book of intermediate to advanced Christmas songs.....these are my arrangements.I have a cd called 'Whispers of Winter"...since I don't have a publisher I copy and bind my own books....call me old-fashioned. You can hear excerpts on my website [ www.pianopassions.com] or cdbaby.com....I enjoy playing them so that's my benchmark for if I think they are good.
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Jingle Jazz is a great collection by Keveren.
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Sorry JessicaB and pianoloverus. The Links are working now again. I did change the arrangement of "Maria Walks Amid The Thorn" slightly but did not make a new take. Maybe one of you guys could make it? Another one I did is WHITE CHRISTMAS www.cisum.info/WHITEXMAS.mp3www.cisum.info/whitechristmas.pdf
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You just saved my life. I've been searching for a diff. arrangement of Lo How a Rose - need it for tom'w night ( c-mas Eve) service. Glad it's in F!
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