A Merry Christmas!

is an album of Christmas music by the Stan Kenton Orchestra recorded in 1961 and released by Capitol Records.

[1][2][3] It was reissued as Kenton's Christmas in 1970 by Kenton's own Creative World label.

The Allmusic review by Matt Collar noted A Merry Christmas is a polyphonic masterpiece that is at once progressive and traditional.

...Featuring Kenton's idiosyncratic style of arranging piercing trumpets over a wooly blanket of trombones and mellophones, this is beautiful, forward-thinking and angular music that addresses both complex classical harmony and Basie-style swing".