Jingle Bell Rock, Ayron Michael (So Bold)

I'm just discovering Michael for the first time here in 2018. He's a south Florida-based performer whose music is equal parts pop and reggae, and he's bringing us holiday music of this genre on this short album-long EP, you choose. Six of seven tunes are familiar, and there's a smoothly lilting original called "Mistletoe." He acquits himself well on the title song, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Mary's Boy Child," "Silent Night," and Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas." The only tune that foregoes the reggae treatment is "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," but the ballad treatment is nicely modern-sounding. Put a sprig of holly on your umbrella drinks while you're listening to this.