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.
Fred Pierpont at the time for the robbery of the South Side State Bank in Kokomo, Indiana. On May 18, 1925, Fred was acquitted by the circuit court of Howard County, Indiana on charges he aided his brother Harry in an escape attempt from the Howard County jail. Fred died in 1940 in an automobile accident. Fred was buried in the Pierpont family plot in Holy Cross Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. Fred Pierpont Fred Pierpont (July 5, 1906–1940) was the younger brother of Prohibition era gangster, Harry Pierpont. He was often suspected and arrested for being a front man for his brother's