Ironically, Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne wrote "Let It Snow" in the summer of 1945. Penned in California during a heat wave, Cahn and Styne were clearly longing for a change of pace. This Torsten Maaß arrangement (from our recent Christmas live stream) features Ruud Breuls on trumpet and Mattis Cederberg on sousaphone. Conducted by Ansgar Striepens. | WDR Big Band

Hold that tiger! "Tiger Rag", originally recorded in 1917 by the "Original Dixieland Jass Band", is one of the most recorded tunes in jazz history, with version by classic artists like Art Tatum, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, and Louis Armstrong, to bands like the Beatles and jazz contemporaries like Nicholas Payton. This version, arranged by Oded Lev-Ari features Anat Cohen on clarinet, Avishai Cohen on trumpet, Yuval Cohen on soprano sax, Andy Hunter on trombon