"[4] PopMatters editor Peter Piatkowski found that I Dream of Christmas "feels like a soothing salve on what seems like another troubled holiday season.

She felt that "Jones' skill is to remind us that tired and hideously overdone as many of these numbers are, intrinsically good songs lie hidden beneath the musical cliches.

"[5] All About Jazz editor Jim Trageser declared the album "a lovely addition to the Christmas canon, with some wonderfully creative takes on old favorites coupled to some inspired new seasonal compositions.

With her sweeping and gentle takes on Christmas classics as well as her own originals, Jones combines the nostalgic sentiment expressed in much of her music with a certain holiday glow on a record to which you can kiss or cry.

"[8] Knoxville News Sentinel critic Chuck Campbell, wrote that the album was "even better than might have been expected as Jones and her band capture a cozy holiday vibe, soothing and a bit surreal, sometimes playful and occasionally melancholy.