For years I’ve been publishing my “Yule” playlist, which is a collection of jazz covers of holiday songs. I’ve heard from many people who are enjoying this playlist.

Indeed, I’ve been doing this so long that I’ve kept a list of things people tell me they use the list for, including: decorating the tree, wrapping presents, assembling Christmas toys, and, yes, debugging code. One reader wrote to explain how he deployed this playlist to annoy non-jazz-fan relatives, which I don’t entirely approve of.

In the past year, I largely shut down my legacy iTunes account, and I’ve been operating only from my iCloud account. So the Yule playlist has moved to a new link. I’ve also updated it and added even more songs. Enjoy!

Note: The above image was created by Google Gemini 3. As an experiment, I’ve been doing these annual posts with an AI-generated image with the prompt “Santa playing the saxophone.” AI image generation has come a long way.