''That Holiday Feelin is a

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on November 6, 1990.

Critical reception

Scott Yanow of

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writes, "One of the better Christmas jazz sets, Joe Williams is heard in

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." AllMusic rated the album 3 stars out of 5. Ron Givens of ''

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'' rates this album an "A" and writes, "From the world of jazz, singer Joe Williams has delivered a warm and cozy

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of an album with ''That Holiday Feelin’''. His style is casual and relaxed, so effortlessly conversational that it feels like a chat with an old friend."

Track listing

Musicians

* Joe Williams – vocals *

Kenny Burrell Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige Records, Prestige, Blue Note, Verve Records, Verve, CTI Records, CTI, Muse Records, Muse, and Concord Records, Conco ...

– acoustic guitar (track 10), electric guitar (tracks 2, 3, 7) *

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– alto saxophone (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9) *

Seldon Powell Seldon Powell (November 15, 1928 – January 25, 1997) was an American tenor saxophonist and flautist whose work spanned multiple genres, including jazz and rhythm and blues. Background Powell worked with Tab Smith (1949), Lucky Millinder (194 ...

– baritone saxophone (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9) *

Bob Cranshaw Melbourne Robert Cranshaw (December 3, 1932 – November 2, 2016) was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records as a house bassist to his later involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known f ...

– bass guitar (tracks 1, 2, 7, 10) * Paul West – bass guitar (tracks 3, 5, 9, 11) *

Dennis Mackrel Dennis Mackrel (born April 3, 1962) is an American jazz drummer, composer, and arranger who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Career The son of two jazz enthusiasts, Mackrel started playing drums at ag ...

– drums (tracks 1 to 3, 5, 7 to 11) *

Ted Dunbar Earl Theodore Dunbar (January 17, 1937 – May 29, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator. Career Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Dunbar trained as a pharmacist at Texas Southern University, but by the 1970s he only did pharmac ...

– electric guitar (tracks 3, 5, 9, 11) *

– piano (tracks 4, 6, 8) *

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– tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9) *

Al Grey Al Grey (June 6, 1925 – March 24, 2000) was an American jazz trombonist who was a member of the Count Basie orchestra. He was known for his plunger mute technique and wrote an instructional book in 1987 called ''Plunger Techniques''. Car ...

– trombone (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9) *

Clark Terry Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American Swing music, swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948� ...

– trumpet (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9) *

Joe Wilder Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Wilder was awarded the Temple University Jazz Master's Hall of Fame Award in 2006. The National Endowment for the Arts honored h ...

– trumpet (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9)

Production

*Executive producer – Richard Seidel *Producer – Bob Porter *Product Manager – Sheila Mathis *Recorded by Malcolm Addey *Recorded by (Assistant) – Ron Allaire *Arranged by Joe Williams,

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(tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9)

References

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