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Watch: Aretha Franklin's Casually Colossal Rendition Of 'O Tannenbaum'

It is, indeed, "the season" — but, along with the stress and the dark and the cold, come bright, healing moments like this one, from 2015.
Aretha Franklin, photographed at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 17, 2015 in New York.

As an unbilled guest, Aretha Franklin was the surprise gift of the 2015 Big Band Holidays concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center. But the Queen of Soul brought a surprise of her own with an impromptu version of "O Tannenbaum," the traditional

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