enrich: (verb) improve or enhance the quality or value of. ARTIST.....: George Winston TITLE......: December LABEL......: Dancing Cat Records GENRE......: New Age RIP DATE...: 2020-01-18 RETAIL DATE: 1982-01-01 RUNTIME....: 39:00 TRACKS.....: 12 SIZE.......: 90.53MB QUALITY....: 320kbps 44.1kHz CODEC......: MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) ENCODER....: LAME URL........: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bx7ev3pogbfyig6cq2wmuhlpb7q Tracklist: ---------- 01. Thanksgiving 04:05 02. Rest Your Head 02:37 03. Joy 03:13 04. Prelude 01:16 05. Carol of the Bells 03:58 06. Night, Pt. 1: Snow 01:53 07. Night, Pt. 2: Midnight 01:25 08. Night, Pt. 3: Minstrels 02:32 09. Variations on the Kanon 05:21 10. The Holly and The Ivy 04:52 11. Some Children See Him 03:44 12. Peace 04:04 Notes: ------ George Winston is an American pianist who was born in Michigan and grew up mainly in Montana, as well as Mississippi and Florida. He is best known for his solo piano recordings; several of his albums from the early 1980s have sold millions of copies each. He plays in three styles: the melodic approach he developed that he calls "rural folk piano"; stride piano, primarily inspired by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Teddy Wilson; and his primary interest, New Orleans R&B piano, influenced by James Booker, Professor Longhair, and Henry Butler. December is the fourth solo piano album from George Winston. It was recorded during the fall of 1982 and was released at the end of the year. It is a Christmas album, and more generally a tribute to the winter season. The album is a follow up to Autumn.December is Winston's highest-selling album, having been certified triple Platinum by the RIAA, signifying 3 million copies in shipment. The success of the album, along with several of Winston's other albums from the early 1980s, enabled the record label, Windham Hill, to get international distribution and a much higher profile. The album also spent 136 weeks on the Billboard 200, reaching a peak of #54 in January 1984, over a year after its original release. In 1987, five years after its release, it reached #2 on Billboard's Top Holiday Albums chart.A 20th Anniversary Edition of the album, with two bonus tracks, was released in 2001. The album was again reissued in 2013 by Valley Entertainment with Dancing Cat Records, Winston's own label. This reissue was packaged in a Digipak and features revised cover art.