George Bell and Friends: Holiday Jazz
Holiday Jazz
12/2/2025 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
This shows features soulful interpretations and vibrant jazzy arrangements of Holiday classics.
Kick-off the holidays with a concert celebration of Louisiana talent on LPB! GEORGE BELL & FRIENDS: HOLIDAY JAZZ features soulful interpretations and vibrant jazzy arrangements of some of your holiday favorites!
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George Bell and Friends: Holiday Jazz is a local public television program presented by LPB
George Bell and Friends: Holiday Jazz
Holiday Jazz
12/2/2025 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Kick-off the holidays with a concert celebration of Louisiana talent on LPB! GEORGE BELL & FRIENDS: HOLIDAY JAZZ features soulful interpretations and vibrant jazzy arrangements of some of your holiday favorites!
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Hey.
Derek.
Hey.
Hey.
I'm.
At.
This.
Game.
Be.
Me like dreaming tonight of a place I know even more than I usually do.
And although I know it's a long road.
Man, I promise you, you, Me.
Is, You can count on me.
And these has grown with me.
So doing great things from the tree.
Christmas tree will find me way through underneath.
Hope if.
This one's for me.
The way you treat me may need me be.
At home.
Maybe.
Baby.
Oh, hey.
I'll be home for Christmas.
But you can count on me.
This time snow and mistletoe and presents around the tree.
Oh, Christmas Eve is you gonna find me.
When the love like the leaves love me.
For Christmas is the falling tree.
Hey, you, tree in my tree.
Would be my tree.
Who, me?
Wow.
I mean, young people.
Young people?
Yeah.
This is called the Bells of Poinsettia.
The bells of poinsettia?
It's kind of a hip song that incorporates, the the beat, the groove of a song called Poinciana by Ahmad Jamal.
So, keep your ears open for, the theme of this Christmas song that comes through.
You.
Be.
Even.
Just.
A. Baby who?
You.
Have.
Me.
Me.
Things.
This.
Is me.
Like.
Holy night.
The star break.
This.
You say it is the night of empty Savior's birth.
Long live the lived in sleep and death.
Me.
Tell me be who still to let you.
Live.
Who do we celebrate you places fully under breaks.
The new love is good for you.
Who you need is who you.
Really choose who stays for me.
Digs deeper.
You lay hold new.
Who embrace this new.
Who didn't never.
Any.
Who needs to be.
Who they.
Used to lead this.
To love.
What you is love is love and is the gospel is peace.
James, shall we break through the sweetness?
And in his need.
Oh, please still see.
The need.
Love for the we.
Slowly.
Joe is is fully on to praise the new year.
Small ways is to.
Be may be see.
Oh oh he oh he oh it.
See Christ is born.
My may know.
Me newest who need me.
Who?
Let me show.
Thank you so.
Thank you for.
And they.
Be here.
Let, let let us live and let live.
To love and out of love.
Love me.
Love.
We may.
Let me live.
May.
Let us.
May be.
It may.
It it would it.
Oh!
Please.
Me.
May you come on.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Let your heart be bright.
From now on all troubles will be out of sight.
Yeah.
Living in a have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Let your heart be gay.
From now on all troubles will be miles away.
Yes, here we are.
As in olden days.
Happy golden days are your faithful friends who are never much.
Yeah, the dear to us once mom, sibling.
Throughout the years we all will be together.
If the fates of love hang a shining star of the highest us.
And have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Never, never, never.
In.
Any.
Year.
Make some noise in the span.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Let your heart be bright.
From now on.
All troubles will be out of sight.
Yeah, yeah.
Yes.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Let your heart begin.
From now on, all troubles will be miles away.
Who is?
We are as in old days.
Happy golden days are your faithful friends who are in us together.
Didn't ask once more to do it.
We find ourselves for the years will be together.
If the fates of love hang a shining star upon the highest any.
Hey, have yourself a merry little Christmas.
You.
Right now.
We'll have yourself a merry little Christmas.
And, I ain't never.
Oh, like no.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Merry, did you know you'll be.
One day.
Walk on water every day.
You know you will be all.
Save our sons and daughters.
You know the baby boy.
To make you new.
This, That you deliver.
You soon delivery.
You do you get your baby.
Go ahead.
Give sight to the blind baby.
Did you know you're busy?
Lord, I'm a stone with his hand.
You know that you'll be more of her.
Angels trust when you kiss your little baby.
You kiss the face.
God.
Oh, Mary.
The blood.
We say.
Baby, did you know you'll be the.
Give sight to a blind man.
Baby, did you know you'll be the boy.
The stone with his head.
Did you know with your baby boy.
Oh, angel strong.
And when you kiss your little baby.
You kiss the face of God.
Oh.
The blind see the deaf.
The day will live again.
The lamb will lead.
The solider will speak the praises of the love.
Baby, did you know your baby boy was Lord of all creation.
Baby, you do know your baby boy do.
On day the nation.
Did you know your baby boy.
Heaven's perfect little.
And the sleeping child.
Your holy is a free until.
You.
Oh come on.
Take all the mistletoe I'm gonna get to know you better this Christmas.
And as we trim the tree.
How much fun it's gonna be together.
Yes, this Christmas, it's our faith in Christ.
And we'll tell you true love us.
And this Christmas will be a very special Christmas for me.
Yeah, yeah.
Somebody needs to shake his head.
Yeah.
Chris is you still with you?
This Christmas?
And as I look around you, as I'm trying to tell to this Christmas fire.
But faith.
Yeah, yeah.
And we'll come to love.
And this Christmas will be a very special Christmas for me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Somebody needs to shake a hand.
Have a merry, merry Christmas for.
You.
Too.
When?
You think of the messed up.
I'm gonna get to know you better.
Let me a. Hand as I look around your house on the town.
Make to you somebody say you need more faith in Christ.
Place in my hand.
We're coming through the fall I say this Christmas will be a very special Christmas for me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Somebody shake a hand.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, all night you have been listening to Andy Blues.
Right on the keys.
All right, Harry, go on the bass, the Herman Jackson on the drums, and doctor Ward back there on the drums.
And thanks.
Listen, make some noise for Raven here on the guitar.
Come on, come on, come on.
The family up there.
On the line.
On the family.
Up on the line.
Make some noise for the voice on the line, y'all.
And the vocalist of the evening.
We hear y'all having a good time.
Everybody say yeah, yeah.
And say yeah, yeah.
There you say yeah, yeah.
Say to the bridge.
Oh the fire sighs blazing bright.
And we can see through the night.
And this Christmas will be a very special Christmas for me.
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Everybody needs a shake a hand.
Have a merry merry merry Christmas.
To each and every one of you.
And to all of you.
Have a merry Christmas to each and every one of you.
Merry Christmas to Holly one more time.
Say Merry Christmas, all of you.
Many merry Christmas.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
All the way from Mary's baby.
Merry Christmas.
Thank you so much.
For.
Christmas.
You know it's time to go.
Come on and get yourself in here.
This ain't Christmas.
When you know it's time to give your man a few minutes.
Hey, Chris.
Somebody say, you know it's time to go to bed.
Somebody's gonna play the blues.
Yeah.
Hey, yeah.
It's time to go to bed.
Yeah.
Hey.
What a fantastic holiday concert.
It.
And thank you to the musicians who join you on stage.
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