After listening to it again for the first time in several years, I realize I haven't given Dave Brubeck's "'Homecoming' Jingle Bells" its due. It's an intriguing piano arrangement, in which one hand starts off playing a consistent rhythm, suggesting falling snow; meanwhile, the other hand plays the familiar "Jingle Bells" melody. Forty-eight seconds in, Brubeck goes into partial Vince Guaraldi mode briefly and then transitions seamlessly into a ragtime-at-a-saloon arrangement. It's an unusual blend of influences that deserves more radio airplay.