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News: Recording

Perfection: Jimmy Smith - 'Too Old to Dream'

October 31, 2024

In April 1960, organist Jimmy Smith joined forces with tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and recorded Back at the Chicken Shack for Blue Note. One of the tracks was “When I Grow Too Old to Dream," by Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg. The song was introduced in The Night Is Young (1935) and was given a gospel-soul ...

Article: Reassessing

Back At The Chicken Shack

by Thomas Fletcher
June 20, 2020

Back At The Chicken Shack celebrates 60 years since its recording date at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs. The same session produced Midnight Special (Blue Note, 1961), though Back At The Chicken Shack would have to wait three years for its release. The label's co-founder, Alfred Lion, later revealed that the healthy sales of ...

Album

Back At The Chicken Shack

By Jimmy Smith

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1963
Track listing: Back At The Chicken Shack; When I Grow Too Old To Dream; Minor Chant; Messy Bessie; On the Sunny Side of the Street