More Sounds of Christmas
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. This album peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard 200.
Critical reception
Dennis Mac Donald of AllMusic gave More Sounds of Christmas a 4 out of 5 stars rating. He proclaimed "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
- "Snowbound" – 3:37
- "The Twelve Days of Christmas" – 2:43
- "Egg Nog" – 3:28
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" – 2:30
- "Jingle Bells" – 2:33
- "Plum Puddin – 2:58
- "Snowfall" – 2:08
- "We Three Kings" – 4:01
- "White Christmas" – 4:22
- "The Little Drummer Boy" – 2:26
Personnel
- Ramsey Lewis – piano, celeste
- El Dee Young – bass, cello
- Isaac "Red" Holt, Steve McCall – drums
- Cleveland Eaton – bass
- 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
- Peter Eagle – harp
- John Avant – trombone
- King Fleming, Will Jackson – arranger