Christmas Jazz Jam in twenty years. For the album, Marsalis assembled a group of ten musicians to perform uncredited arrangements of twelve holiday standards. Following "Mary Had a Baby" are traditional New Orleans jazz-style renditions of "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) and "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson). Kirk Silsbee of the "Los Angeles Times" awarded the album three of four stars and called the arrangements "smart yet not ostentatious". In 2009 "Christmas Jazz Jam" reached peak positions of number six on "Billboard" Jazz Albums chart, number nine on the Top Holiday Albums chart, and number nineteen on the Top Independent Albums chart.
It's Christmas Time Again 1, 2012 and AOL Music premiered the full song on November 5, 2012. "It's Christmas Time Again" was released digitally on November 6, 2012. The Backstreet Boys performed the song publicly for the very first time on November 4, 2012 at the taping of Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade at Disneyland, CA. On November 14, 2012, the group debuted the song on national TV on "The Talk" and on December 19, 2012 they performed the song on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". In December 2013, the Backstreet Boys performed this song in the annual "Christmas in Washington" TV special which