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El Momento

Label: HighNote
Released: 2007

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Me and Mr. Johnson

Label: Johnson & Johnson
Released: 2006
Track listing: Body and Soul; Shake it Side to Side; Rough and Tough; Bemsha Swing; Organ Grinder Blues; Me and Mr. Johnson.

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Softly As A Summer Breeze

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: These Foolish Things; Hackensack; It Could Happen To You; Sometimes I'm Happy; Someone To Watch Over Me; Home Cookin' (aka One For Philly Joe); Willow Weep For Me; Ain't No Use; Angel Eyes; Ain't That Love.

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Music for Lovers

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: My One and Only Love; Time After Time; Willow Weep for Me; Lover Man; Little Girl Blue; Embraceable You; Angel Eyes; It Could Happen to You; Flamingo.

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Milestone Profiles

Label: HighNote
Released: 2006

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Fantastic Jimmy Smith; At the Organ, Volume 3

Read "The Fantastic Jimmy Smith; At the Organ, Volume 3" reviewed by Joel Roberts


It's often been said that the late Jimmy Smith did the same thing for the Hammond organ that Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and J.J. Johnson and Charlie Christian did for their instruments. That is, launch it into the age of modern jazz with a revolutionary approach, forever changing how it would be played. Two remastered ...

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Jimmy Smith: Me and Mr. Johnson

Read "Me and Mr. Johnson" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Back in the day, when you said organ, you were talking about one of two things: a part of the body or the Hammond B-3. Jazz organ masters like Larry Young and Jimmy Smith did not play the Minimoog or the Casio Tectronic, they played the B-3. Nowadays the kids are picking up a new keyboard ...

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Jimmy Smith: Softly As A Summer Breeze

Read "Softly As A Summer Breeze" reviewed by Chris May


An oddity and supporting cast player in the Jimmy Smith canon, Softly As A Summer Breeze is nonetheless a welcome addition to Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder remasters programme, bringing together three distinct sessions with partially overlapping personnel. All the evidence suggests the first four tracks were originally recorded for a Kenny Burrell album which was ...

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Jimmy Smith: Music for Lovers

Read "Music for Lovers" reviewed by Norman Weinstein


This Music for Lovers compilation is probably the most restrained Jimmy Smith collection ever compiled, and it allows a rarely presented side of Smith's work from 1957-1960 to be spotlit. It's also an ideal showcase for Smith as delicately tasteful accompanist. An apt comparison would be to Oscar Peterson during the '50s. All ...

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Jimmy Smith

Label: HighNote
Released: 2005


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