Toni Braxton Snowflakes Christmas Music CD Review

Toni Braxton has released her most recent CD entitled Snowflakes.

Snowflakes opens with an outstanding track, Holiday Celebrate, that I anticipate will be heard on radio stations everywhere, and deservedly so. It’s a really nice track.

One of the refreshingly nice things about this CD is the way all of the participating artists seem to be really enjoying themselves. Combine that with the overall presentation and you’ve got one of Toni Braxton’s most impressive releases ever.

Overall Snowflakes is a solid release. Quite possibly Toni Braxton’s best to date. Really spectacular from beginning to end. If you’re even mildly into Christmas music you’ll enjoy this CD.

While the entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 3 – Snowflakes Of Love, track 7 – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, and track 11 – Christmas In Jamaica

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 – Holiday Celebrate. Good stuff!

Snowflakes Release Notes:

Toni Braxton originally released Snowflakes on August 1, 2003 on the BMG Special Products label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Holiday Celebrate 2. Christmas In Jamaica – (featuring Shaggy) 3. Snowflakes Of Love 4. Christmas Time Is Here 5. Santa Please 6. Pretty Please – (interlude) 7. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 8. This Time Next Year 9. Christmas Song, The 10. Snowflakes Of Love – (Brent Fischer instrumental version) 11. Christmas In Jamaica – (remix, featuring Shaggy)

Personnel includes: Toni Braxton, Shaggy (vocals); Keri Lewis, Donnie Scantz (various instruments); Sonny Lallerstedt (electric & classical guitars); Craig Love, Michael Thompson (guitar); Assa Drori, Anatoly Rosinskhy, Elizabeth Wilson, Shari Zippert, Brenton Banks, Jean Sudbury, Robert Sanov, Igor Kiskatchi, Henry Ferber, Rebecca Bunnell, Irma Neumann, Don Palmer, Sally Berman, Mario Deleon, Henry Gronnier, Lisa Sutton (violin); Tom Ranier(piano, celeste); Vance Taylor (piano); Daryl Simmons (keyboards, percussion); Neal Starkey, Nathan East, Kayo (bass): Scott Meeder, McArthur, La Reid (drums); Tony Williams (programming); Tamar Braxton, Heather Mitchell, Chante Moore, Babyface, Anthony “Amp” Daniels (background vocals).

Producers include: Keri Lewis, LA Reid, Daryl Simmons, Babyface, Toni Braxton.

Engineers include: Thom “TK” Kidd, Craig Taylor, Dave Palmer.