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).

Holiday Soul is an album of Christmas music by the American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons, recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label.^[1]

Holiday Soul
Studio album by Bobby Timmons
Released	1964
Recorded	November 24, 1964
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz, Christmas
Label	Prestige
Producer	Ozzie Cadena
Bobby Timmons chronology
Workin' Out! (1964) Holiday Soul (1964) Chicken & Dumplin's (1965)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
DownBeat	[3]

The AllMusic review awarded the album 3 stars.^[2] DownBeat commented that Timmons played the Christmas material "without seeming the least bit self-conscious about his soul-jazz and blues tendencies".^[3] The All About Jazz reviewer also commented that the pianist retained his normal playing style despite the material.^[4] Critic Marc Myers selected it for his Vintage Holiday Album Hall of Fame in 2015.^[5]

Track listing

1. "Deck the Halls" (Traditional) – 3:10
2. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 7:00
3. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 5:15
4. "Auld Lang Syne" (Robert Burns, Traditional) – 4:35
5. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 6:00
6. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 5:30
7. "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins, Jr.) – 5:00
8. "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

• Bobby Timmons - piano
• Butch Warren - double bass
• Walter Perkins - drums

References

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