New Link For the Yule Playlist

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.

The MacSparky Yule Playlist

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As we are now officially in the holiday season, I’ve been polishing off the official MacSparky Yule playlist. This includes my favorite holiday music by some of my favorite artists. It is heavily (but not entirely) jazz-focused. Apple Music subscribers can subscribe to it with this link. Happy holidays y’all.

P.S. The artwork in this post is the first AI-generated content to appear on MacSparky.com.

The Yule Apple Music Playlist

The holidays are here and I’ve been doing more work on my “Yule” playlist. I’m always adding (and subtracting) to it. If you’ve got an Apple Music subscription, go ahead and subscribe and enjoy. The playlist is heavily jazz but with a few other delightful holiday songs from other artists.

Happy Holidays, y’all.

MacSparky’s Yule Playlist

The Yule Apple Music Playlist

The holidays are here and I’ve been doing more work on my “Yule” playlist. I’ve made lots of new additions this year including this gem from Joey Alexander. If you’ve got an Apple Music subscription, go ahead and subscribe and enjoy. The playlist is very heavily jazz but with a few other delightful holiday songs from other artists, including this one where Jack Johnston takes Santa to task for the way they were treating Rudolph just because he has a red nose.

Anyway, here’s the link: