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Jimmy Smith: Plays Fats Waller

Read "Plays Fats Waller" reviewed by David Rickert


It makes sense that Jimmy Smith recorded an album's worth of Fats Waller tunes, since Waller himself was a pioneer on the organ in a jazz context. But it makes even more sense when you consider that Smith applied the single note runs of a pianist to his instrument, and Waller, no slouch on the piano ...

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El Momento

Label: HighNote
Released: 2007

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Straight Life

Label: HighNote
Released: 2007

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The Finest In Jazz

Label: HighNote
Released: 2007

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Milestone Profiles

Label: HighNote
Released: 2006

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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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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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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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