{"id":973761,"date":"2019-11-27T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=919321"},"modified":"2019-11-27T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:25:46","slug":"see-aretha-franklins-stunning-piano-rendition-of-o-tannenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/see-aretha-franklins-stunning-piano-rendition-of-o-tannenbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"See Aretha Franklin\u2019s Stunning Piano Rendition of \u2018O Tannenbaum\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ArethaFranklin.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aretha-franklin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aretha-franklin\" data-tag=\"aretha-franklin\">Aretha Franklin<\/a>\u2019s stunning solo piano rendition of the yuletide classic \u201cO Tannenbaum\u201d \u2014performed in 2015 at New York\u2019s Jazz at Lincoln Center \u2014 has been released for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Queen of Soul served as surprise guest at the Wynton Marsalis-led 2015 Big Band Holidays concert, where she sang the seasonal favorite both in English and its traditional German. The rendition is a highlight on the recently released <em>Big Band Holidays II<\/em> compilation, featuring selections from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis\u2019 annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/christmas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christmas\" data-tag=\"christmas\">Christmas<\/a> shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/11\/26\/782664870\/watch-aretha-franklins-casually-colossal-rendition-of-o-tannenbaum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NPR Music<\/a>, which debuted the \u201cO Tannenbaum\u201d video Wednesday, notes that Franklin previously performed the song at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?62014-1\/national-christmas-tree-lighting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in 1994<\/a> and recorded it, alongside an orchestra, for the <em>A Very Special Christmas 2<\/em> benefit compilation; however, Franklin did not include her \u201cO Tannenbaum\u201d on her own 2008 seasonal album <em>This Christmas Aretha<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cO Tannenbaum\u201d marks one of a handful of previously unreleased Franklin songs to be unveiled since the Queen of Soul\u2019s death in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/aretha-franklin-o-tannenbaum-lincoln-center-video-919321\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of Aretha Franklin\u2019s stunning solo piano rendition of the yuletide classic \u201cO Tannenbaum\u201d \u2014performed in 2015 at New York\u2019s Jazz at Lincoln Center \u2014 has been released for the first time. The Queen of Soul served as surprise guest at the Wynton Marsalis-led 2015 Big Band Holidays concert, where she sang the seasonal favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 03:32:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}