Results for "Jimmy Smith"

Got My Mojo Workin' / Hoochie Coochie Man

By Jimmy Smith

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2009

Organamix: Groovin' at Groove Junction

by Ian Patterson
December 25, 2009

The Hammond organ is 75 this year. The classic Hammond B3 model has had an illustrious half century and the story of jazz is studded with famous practitioners. Since the B3 came off the production line in the 1970s it has been replaced by clone-wheel models using advanced sound modeling technology, which have the advantage of ...

Seleno Clarke: Bringing The Music Back To Harlem

by AAJ Staff
December 22, 2009

Seleno ClarkeAmerican Legion248 W. 132nd St., New York City Jazz went east in the 1920s and '30s, moving from New Orleans and Chicago to Harlem. But jazz left Harlem in the 1960s, when it moved to clubs downtown and R&B and rock began to take over. Music in general began to leave; for ...

Holiday Gift Guide 2009

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
December 17, 2009

For many years, Your Own Personal Genius earned his drinking money by working retail. I've sold computers, appliances, furniture, mattresses, and kitchen cabinets; and in the process, became somewhat of a Grinch when it came to the material aspects of the holidays. Spending 14 hours a day in a store dealing with surly shoppers, an endless ...

The 6th Penang Island Jazz Festival: December 3-6, 2009

by Ian Patterson
December 15, 2009

The 6th Penang Island Jazz Festival Bayview Beach Resort Penang, Malaysia December 3-6, 2009 Happy birthday to the Penang Island Jazz Festival, six years old this year! Six years may not seem like a lot, but in small jazz festival terms it probably means that the difficult initial ...

Jazz Icons, Series 4

by Ken Dryden
December 13, 2009

Jazz Icons Series 4 Naxos 2009 The fourth volume of the Jazz Icons DVD series, available individually or in a boxed set, compiles live videos by seven jazz greats never issued commercially, all with detailed liner notes and a bumper crop of period photographs. The performances are in black and ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Smith

December 8, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Smith's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jimmy SmithJimmy Smith, nicknamed “The Incredible Jimmy Smith", Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Smith was influenced by both gospel and blues... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow Jimmy Smith ...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Featuring the music of Jimmy Smith
Duration: 4:59
December 8, 2009

Take Five With Tony Foster

by AAJ Staff
November 30, 2009

Meet Tony Foster: Currently based in Seattle, Washington, Tony Foster was born and raised in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. He received his initial musical training early on, in the form of classical piano lessons privately. In school bands, his main instrument became the trumpet. His studies on the trumpet continued until college, and it was not ...

Let's Party: Anthony Wilson Trio, Joel Frahm & Bruce Katz, James Carter et al.

by J Hunter
November 5, 2009

Just because summer is long gone doesn't mean the other three seasons have to be a marathon of dreariness. The calendar's got plenty of reasons to party--Christmas, New Year's Eve, or (for college students) the odd Tuesday that needs freshening up. It's only logical that parties need party music, so here are three “musical guests," all ...