Unknown: This is a production of West Virginia Public Broadcasting from West Virginia Public Broadcasting Welcome to our holiday jazz celebration.

Joy to the world.

With Pn is Bob Thompson and his band featuring special guest vocalist Dr. Kim Nalli.

Major funding is provided by AARP West Virginia and by the West Virginia lottery.

All right, Jim, you know this is the first this is the year the first artists to come back three times for Joy to the world.

So it's really it's really special on a lot of levels.

For me and we're just glad to have you here thank you so much I really appreciate I also feel the joy that you bring and I can tell that you love this music as much as I do it's not just a gig it's like you you really enjoy this Christmas means it's very special to me it's very comforting to in times of well in times of uncertainty and times of loss they definitely bring me comfort you going to get where you are friends with women young giddy up giddy up show rear glass glad number one good job we both rosy pumpy both it was lovely man you giddy up Biddy up let's go let's look at the Shall we your job to pay the farmers and saying hey Paul was lovely when the rats again with you thank you so much.

Now this time, you introduced me to a new song a song that I hadn't heard or didn't know anything about.

Yeah, I don't really know much about the history of that song.

I'm talking of course about the snow miser.

Yes, there's snow miser and Heatmiser so there's all of these cartoons well, they're not cartoons or stop motion animation.

And I think the first one was Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

And they were produced by Rankin and bass and they they really had some crackerjack songwriters writing for them and they had people like Fred Astaire or Burl Ives, narrating it or surely booth is a little bit obscure for but for people who are my age, and grew up with these Rankin and bass, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer the year without a Santa Claus they did Frosty the Snowman.

I haven't done that yet.

And I'm glad that you were open to doing a new Christmas song from a different generation.

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You do Carol's as well.

And a lot of these Christmas songs, they're very generational.

This generation knows this song or this generation knows that song, but these Carols I mean, they've been handed down for hundreds of years that people have sang them and I think that they resonate in a certain way that the Christmas songs don't they're just multi generational and I really liked the fact that you include Carol's inside of your instrumental set.

That you know, I because I grew up loving Carol's back that was back when we used to go around the neighborhood and sing Christmas carols.

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That was big fun.

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And it's just a nice balance between the spirituals and, and standard Christmas songs.

I, you know, I definitely like to, you know, keep some of the gospel inside of the Christmas and my grandmother, you know, she she went around to a lot of different a lot of different churches, you know, those churches where you have an older drummer and a younger drummer organ player and then you know, younger pianists and I just know so many great jazz musicians that came up through through the church you know, because those those services would last many many many hours so you know, I find that a lot of a lot of those people they really know how to follow a singer very well because they followed that preachers thing and then that rise and the fall of the preachers preaching so I like I like that aspect when both to me him hold that Jesus Christ is born bought oh now handle the pit to me crowd Hello buy homes that call right whoa Bob Thompson major funding has been provided by AARP West Virginia and by the West Virginia lottery