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 "Entertainment Weekly" also gave the song a positive review, noting that the song has a catchy tune, a little "boy band hook," and a five-part harmony. The song peaked at No. 1 on "Billboard"'s Holiday Digital Songs chart in November 2012. The music video for this song is animated, and was premiered on Artistdirect on November 15, 2012. It features the members of Backstreet Boys as cartoon characters and follows the story of a couple who grow old together and how they spend their Christmas over the years. It's Christmas Time Again "It's Christmas Time Again" is a Christmas song