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Jimmy Smith: The Complete Blue Note February 1957 Jimmy Smith

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 1998

The Miracle of Mosaic. The Complete February 1957 Jimmy Smith Blue Note Sessions is not a new release. It made the market in 1994 as a limited edition set of 5,000 three CD or 5 LP sets by the masters of the jazz reissue, Michael Cuscuna and Mosaic Records. The copy I have is numbered 3801 (so I suspect there will be plenty available for the time being). I own three other Mosaic sets, and all of them are unique ...

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Jimmy Smith: Standards

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by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 1998

Back at the Chicken Shack. The jazz organ is one of the few instruments that has been completely dominated by a single individual. That individual is Jimmy Smith. Born in Norristown, PA, Smith studied music in Philadelphia, a major jazz organ center. Starting on piano, he switched to the organ three years prior to his first recording date. Teaching himself the organ, Smith committed himself to the woodshed for three months, emerging with a fully formed, powerful playing style much ...

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Jimmy Smith: Got My Mojo Workin/Hoochie Coochie Man

by Douglas Payne
April 1, 1997

When compared to his Blue Note catalog, Jimmy Smith's Verve records have a reputation for being commercial. Despite artistic triumphs like Hobo Flats (1963), The Cat (1964), Peter & The Wolf (1966) and Bluesmith (1972), it could hardly get more commercial than these two albums, Got My Mojo Workin' from 1965 and Hoochie Coochie Man from 1966. Both albums contain an abundance of Smith's gutteral grunting and occasional raspy-voiced vocalizing (a weird combination of Keith Jarrett's moans and Muddy Waters' ...