Holiday Soul (Bobby Timmons album)

This article is about the album by Bobby Timmons. For the album by Don Patterson, see Holiday Soul (Don Patterson album). 1964 studio album by Bobby Timmons

Holiday Soul

Studio album by Bobby Timmons

Released

1964

Recorded

November 24, 1964

Studio

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Bobby Timmons chronology

Workin' Out!
(1964)

Holiday Soul
(1964)

Chicken & Dumplin's
(1965)

Holiday Soul is an album of Christmas music by the American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons, recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
DownBeat

The AllMusic review awarded the album 3 stars. DownBeat commented that Timmons played the Christmas material "without seeming the least bit self-conscious about his soul-jazz and blues tendencies". The All About Jazz reviewer also commented that the pianist retained his normal playing style despite the material. Critic Marc Myers selected it for his Vintage Holiday Album Hall of Fame in 2015.

Track listing

"Deck the Halls" (Traditional) – 3:10
"White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 7:00
"The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 5:15
"Auld Lang Syne" (Robert Burns, Traditional) – 4:35
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 6:00
"Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 5:30
"We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins, Jr.) – 5:00
"You're All I Want for Christmas" (Seger Ellis, Glen Moore) – 5:00

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 24, 1964.

Personnel

References

Bobby Timmons discography accessed February 11, 2011
^ Allmusic Review accessed February 11, 2011
^ Hadley, Frank-John (December 2016). "Yuletide Joy". DownBeat. Vol. 83, no. 12. p. 84.
Hovan, C. Andrew (August 16, 2004). "Don Patterson/Bobby Timmons: Holiday Soul". All About Jazz.
Myers, Marc (December 8, 2015). "Timmons/Patterson: Holiday Soul". JazzWax.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (and John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, 1957) This Here Is Bobby Timmons (1960) Soul Time (1960) Easy Does It (1961) In Person (1961) Sweet and Soulful Sounds (1962) Born to Be Blue! (1963) Chun-King (1964) From the Bottom (1964) Holiday Soul (1964) Little Barefoot Soul (1964) Workin' Out! (1964) Chicken & Dumplin's (1965) Soul Food (1966) The Soul Man! (1966) Got to Get It! (1967) Do You Know the Way? (1968)
With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers	1958 – Paris Olympia (1958) Des Femmes Disparaissent (1958) Drums Around the Corner (1958) Moanin' (1958) At the Jazz Corner of the World (1959) Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959) A Night in Tunisia (1960) Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World (1960) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1961) Pisces (1961) Roots & Herbs (1961) The Freedom Rider (1961) The Witch Doctor (1961)
With others	10 to 4 at the 5 Spot (Pepper Adams, 1958) The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (1959) Them Dirty Blues (Cannonball Adderley, 1960) Work Song (Nat Adderley, 1960) Chet Baker & Crew (1956) Chet Baker Big Band (1956) Blue Lights (Kenny Burrell, 1958) On View at the Five Spot Cafe (Kenny Burrell, 1959) More Party Time (Arnett Cobb, 1960) Movin' Right Along (Arnett Cobb, 1960) 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (Kenny Dorham, 1956) Matador (Kenny Dorham, 1962) Brass Shout (Art Farmer, 1959) The Opener (Curtis Fuller, 1957) Benny Golson and the Philadelphians (1958) The Big Soul-Band (Johnny Griffin, 1960) The Soul Society (Sam Jones, 1960) Nice and Easy (Johnny Lytle, 1962) Hank (Hank Mobley, 1957) The Cooker (Lee Morgan, 1957) Lee-Way (Lee Morgan, 1960) Comin' On! (Dizzy Reece, 1960) Personal Appearance (Sonny Stitt, 1957) The Young Lions (1960)

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