MARCUS GOLDHABER, "I Can't Wait For Christmas"

Beyond being a supremely stylish, critically acclaimed crooner, songwriter, multi-talented performer and Broadwayworld and MAC Award nominee who is one of his generation’s foremost purveyors of the Great American Songbook, Marcus Goldhaber has a sly sense of humor.

With the release of the uber charming, richly nostalgic and sweetly romantic original holiday ballad “I Can’t Wait For Christmas,” he sees himself as another in a long line of Jewish songwriters (Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Mel Torme, etc.) who work their magic with  secular musical chestnuts that make the season bright – and in his case, sensually intimate as well.

With an elegant, easy flowing vocal flow backed by the soulful storied quartet of Art Hirahara (piano), Michael O’Brien (bass), Alvester Garrett (drums) and Paul Bollenback (guitar), he weaves a narrative so graceful warm and full of poetic seasonal imagery that listeners may find themselves googling initially to find which Sinatra, Dino or Bing album it first appeared on decades ago. When they realize it’s fresh and glistening as newly fallen snow, they’ll immediately add it to their playlists of traditional holiday standards, for which its’ a perfect fit.