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Christmas Cookin'
  front cover   side a

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen**
4:14
trad., arr. Billy Byer

Jingle Bells*
3:10
trad., arr. Jimmy Smith

We Three Kings (Of Orient Are)**
3:41
trad., arr. Al Cohn

The Christmas Song**
4:27
Mel Torme / Robert Wells

  
  back cover   side b

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White Christmas**
2:46
Irving Berlin

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town*
5:20
Coots / Gillespie

Silent Night**
4:00
trad., arr. Billy Byers

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlmen*
6:03
trad., arr. Jimmy Smith

  
  label a  

recording dates

studio label

cat no.

  

* 20/04/64
**, *** 29/09/64

Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

Verve

V–8604

  

label b
PERSONNEL
organ
Jimmy Smith
  
     

arr/cond

  

Jimmy Smith *
Billy Byers **
Al Cohn (a3)

  
trumpet
  

Ernie Royal**
Bernie Glow**
Danny Stiles**
Joe Wilder** (flugelhorn)

  
     
french horn
  

Earl Chapin**
Don Corrado**
Morris Secon**
Jim Buffington**

  
trombone
  

Jimmy Cleveland**
Chauncey Welsh**
Paul Faulise** (Bass)
Tommy Mitchell** (Bass)

  
     
tuba
   Harvey Williams**  
     
harp
   Margaret Ross**  
     
guitar
  

Kenny Burrell**
Quentin Warren*

  
     
bass
   Art Davis**  
     
percussion
   George Devens**  
     
drums
  

Grady Tate**
Bill Hart*

  
  TECH  
producer
   Creed Taylor  
     
engineer
   Rudy Van Gelder  
     
dir. of eng.
   Val Valentin  
REISSUES label   year   cat no.      
    EMI (UK)   1964   SVLP9231      
     
    Verve   20/10/92   13711      
     
    IMS   01/10/99   E5137112      
     
    Verve   25/10/05       as "Christmas '64 (Remastered)"  
REVIEW   If anyone was going to pull of a bearable christmas album, the Jimmy's the man. He suceeded. It is bearable. But only at christmas.