The Spirit of Jazz

Ho Ho Ho 2023

Presbybop Music Season 2 Episode 30

In this special Christmas episode, Jeff Kellam tracks down Bill Carter on the Presbybop Quintet International Tour of New England. You will get a behind-the-scenes introduction to the music and good humor of a working jazz group. The band was performing holiday music to enthusiastic audiences, and clips of rehearsal and performance music fill the podcast.

We are grateful to the following venues:

  • Family Promise of Greater Concord, NH
  • Wolfeboro Friends of Music, Wolfeboro, NH
  • The First Baptist Church in America, Providence, RI
  • Schorr Family Firehouse Stage, Johnson City, NY

All music in the public domain, arranged and performed live by the Presbybop Quintet. 
Music clips include: 

  • "Angels We Have Heard on High"
  • "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"
  • "I Wonder as I Wander"
  • "What Child Is This"
  • "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

(c) Presbybop Music

Theme music: "All Thumbs" from Faith in a New Key, Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
Music used by permission from Presbybop Music (BMI)
Announcer: Chris Norton
(c) Presbybop Music

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