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Released
  
1964

Release date
  
1964

Label
  
Cadet Records

Artist
  
Ramsey Lewis

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genres
  
Jazz, Christmas music

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Recorded
  
October 14 & 15, 1964 Universal Recording Studios, Chicago

More Sounds of Christmas (1964)
  
You Better Believe Me (1964)

Similar
  
Ramsey Lewis albums, Jazz albums

More Sounds of Christmas is an album of Christmas music by Ramsey Lewis' Trio featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and released on the Argo label. The album is Lewis' second Christmas album following Sound of Christmas (Argo, 1961).

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "Again hampered by strings on too many cuts, on the plus side, this does contain the ultra-cool original, "Eggnog," featuring Lewis on celeste".

Track listing

  1. "Snowbound" (Clarence Kehner, Russell Faith) - 3:37
  2. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional) - 2:43
  3. "Egg Nog" (Ramsey Lewis) - 3:28
  4. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) - 2:30
  5. "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont) - 2:33
  6. "Plum Puddin' " (Eldee Young) - 2:58
  7. "Snowfall" (Claude Thornhill) - 2:08
  8. "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins, Jr.) - 4:01
  9. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 4:22
  10. "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Kennicott Davis, Harry Simeone, Henry Onorati) - 2:26

Personnel

  • Ramsey Lewis - piano, celeste
  • El Dee Young - bass, cello
  • Issac "Red" Holt (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10), Steve McCall (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9) - drums
  • Cleveland Eaton - bass (track 5)
  • Abe Meltzer, Albert Muenzer, David Chausow, Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky, Harold Kupper, Harold Newton, Henry Ferber, Irving Kaplan, Mark Konrad, Sol A. Bobrov, Theodore Ratzer - string section (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10)
  • Peter Eagle - harp (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10)
  • John Avant - trombone (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10)
  • King Fleming, Will Jackson - arranger (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10)

    • Songs

    1Snowbound3:40
    2The Twelve Days of Christmas2:27
    3Egg Nog3:30

    References

    More Sounds of Christmas Wikipedia
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