Christmas ’64 is a 1964 studio album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith. Smith’s only album of Christmas music, it was reissued as Christmas Cookin’ in 1966.
- Audio CD – Audiobook
Track listing:
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” (Traditional) – 4:19
“Jingle Bells” (James Pierpont) – 3:15
“We Three Kings of Orient Are” (John Henry Hopkins, Jr.) – 3:45
“The Christmas Song” (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 4:32
“White Christmas” (Irving Berlin) – 2:51
“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:26
“Silent Night” (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr) – 4:04
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” – 6:11
On 1992 CD re-issue only:
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (Frank Loesser) – 6:00
“Greensleeves” (Traditional) – 8:53
Personnel:
Jimmy Smith – organ, (all tracks), arranger, (tracks 2, 6, 8)
Kenny Burrell – guitar, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Quentin Warren – guitar, (tracks 2, 6, 8)
Art Davis – double bass, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Grady Tate – drums, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Billy Hart – drums, (tracks 2, 6, 8)
Margaret Ross – harp, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Joe Newman – flugelhorn, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Paul Faulise, Tommy Mitchell – bass trombone, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Chauncey Welsch, Jimmy Cleveland – trombone, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Ernie Royal, Danny Stiles, Joe Wilder, Bernie Glow – trumpet, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Jim Buffington, Earl Chapin, Donald Corrado, Morris Secon – french horn, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Harvey Phillips – tuba, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
George Devens – percussion, (tracks 1, 3-5, 7)
Billy Byers – arranger, conductor, (tracks 1, 4–5, 7)
Al Cohn – arranger, (track 3)
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Released: 1964
Recorded: April 20 & September 29, 1964
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewwod Cliffs, NJ
Length: 48:51
Label: Verve
Producer: Creed Taylor
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