The modern day voice of the festive season

Michael Bublé’s yuletide collection takes some of the season’s most popular songs and invests them with his own personal seal of companionship. He promises a swinging holiday, full of big-band sass. With Shania Twain, he tips his hat to The Drifters’ arrangement of “White Christmas”, while The Puppini Sisters help bring a touch of the boogie-woogie bugle boy to “Jingle Bells” and Thalia delivers a perfect “Feliz Navidad”. Bublé’s cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” takes some chutzpah, but it’s a gift that keeps on giving.