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Jimmy Smith: Retrospective
By Jimmy Smith
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Disc one: You Get 'Cha; The Preacher; The Champ; Bayou; Judo Mambo; Willow Weep for Me; Fiddlin' the Minors; Well, You Needn't; Get Happy; Groovy Date
Disc two: Yardbird Suite; Summertime; All Day Long; The Duel; I Can't Get Started; Body and Soul; Slightly Monkish; Blues After All; 'Round Midnight
Disc three: The Sermon; Flamingo; Hackensack; I Got a Woman; See See Rider; When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Sista Rebecca; Old Folks
Disc four: Back at the Chicken Shack; Minor Chant; Midnight Special; The Jumpin' Blues; Squeeze Me; Ain't No Use; Pork Chop; Can Heat; Come Rain or Come Shine; Prayer Meetin'; Fungii Mama
Retrospective
By Jimmy Smith
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1 You Get Cha';
2 The Preacher;
3 The Champ;
4 Bayou;
5 Judo Mambo;
6 Willow Weep for Me;
7 Fiddlin' the Minors;
8 Well, You Needn't;
9 Get Happy;
10 Groovy Date;
11 Yardbird Suite;
12 Summertime;
13 All Day Long;
14 14 The Duel;
15 I Can't Get Started;
16 Body and Soul;
17 Slightly Monkish;
18 Blues After All;
19 Round Midnight;
20 The Shermon;
21 Flamingo;
22 Hackensack;
23 I Got a Woman;
24 See See Rider;
25 When Johnny Comes Marching Home;
26 Sista Rebecca;
27 Old Folks;
28 Back at the Chicken Shack;
29 Minor Chant;
30 Midnight Special;
31 The Jumpin' Blues;
32 Squeeze Me;
33 Ain't No Use;
34 Pork Chop;
35 Can Heat;
36 Come Rain or Come Shine;
37 Prayer Meetin';
38 Fungii Mama.
Jimmy Smith: Retrospective
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
He might not have been the first jazz organist, but Jimmy Smith's place in jazz history as the first to modernize and popularize its use as a featured jazz instrument is secure. His innovative style created the sub-genre of organ jazz, which many have followed. When he died this past February at age 76, Smith was ...
Jimmy Smith: Home Cookin'
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
"The Incredible Jimmy Smith cemented his reputation as the king of jazz organ during his prolific residency at Blue Note from 1956-63, as both a leader and collaborator with labelmates. His popularity and record sales helped the label grow and foster new talent. When he returned to Blue Note later in his career, it was only ...
Jimmy Smith: The Fantastic Jimmy Smith
by David Rickert
If you're ignorant like I was, you may have thought that A New Sound, A New Star featured the very first Jimmy Smith recordings. But actually he recorded a number of singles a few years before that for the obscure Bruce label. The fact that these early recordings have been out of print for forty years ...
Pulling Out All the Stops
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
If you were to make a list of all of the great jazz musicians to come out of Philadelphia, it would number more than the calories in a cheese steak sandwich. But if you were to narrow it down by instrument, when it came to the organ section, the list would be as short as the ...
Jimmy Smith: The Boss
by Germein Linares
Recorded at Paschal's La Carousel in Atlanta, Georgia, this '68 date has Jimmy Smith's organ paired with George Benson and Nathan Page on guitar as well as Donald Bailey on drums. The three originals, “Some of My Best Friends Are Blues," “The Boss," and “Fingers," are typical of Smith's compositions with organ and guitar conjuring electrified ...
Jimmy Smith: Retrospective
by Germein Linares
Jimmy Smith Retrospective Blue Note Records 2004 Blue Note Records' 4-CD Retrospective is a 38-song summary of Jimmy Smith's music from 1956-62. Along with artists like Art Blakey and Horace Silver, Smith not only came to define the “Blue Note" sound, he also molded and enriched the genres of hard ...
The Incredible Jimmy Smith
by Ed Hamilton
February is recognized as Black History Month and inventors of African American Heritage are honored. Louis Latimer did not invent the light bulb but invented the light inside as James Oscar Smith did not invent the Hammond B-3 organ, but invented the Jazz sound played never before until he laid his fingers on the 2-story set ...
Jazz Organ Stories: Jimmy Smith
by AAJ Staff
By Pete Fallico Nineteen ninety-four marks forty years for Jimmy Smith on the Hammond organ. Although he made the switch from the piano in 1953, Jimmy did not really find his voice on the organ until the following year. Woodshedding took place in the warehouse where he and his father worked as plasterers. Jimmy recalls: “I ...
