But for anyone who plays sax — that’d be me — there’s something demoralizing about a foot-tall wiggling Santa Claus who can outplay you on “Jingle Bells,” of all tunes.

Fisher also reports on why Santa Claus in China is always depicted playing a saxophone: The nature of Christmas in China is fascinating, as I explored in an article yesterday, but it can also be ...

China has one-upped us! In China, Santa Claus is a musician whose favorite instrument is the saxophone! Google says so. Plain old St. Nick is beginning to seem one-dimensional.