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.
Christmas Time Is in the Air Again the song, "Entertainment Focus" writer Pip Ellwood awarded "Christmas Time Is in the Air Again" four out of a possible five stars. She praised the composition for its "classy, soulful and sumptuous" feel and labelled it as "yet another festive classic from the Queen of Christmas". Ellwood concluded her review by writing that the release of the song two years after that of "Merry Christmas II You" should "get it some more well-deserved attention". It was confirmed on November 15, 2012, that Carey would be performing at the NBC event "Christmas in Rockefeller Centre" later that month. The singer performed