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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 ...
Jimmy Smith: NEA Jazz Master
by AAJ Staff
By Pete Fallico The following documents were submitted to the National Endowment For The Arts by the Jazz Organ Fellowship in early 2004. To the best of our knowledge our efforts were directly responsible for the eventual selection of Jimmy as one of their Jazz Masters for the year 2005. Jazz ...
Jimmy Smith: Retrospective
by John Kelman
Jimmy Smith Retrospective Blue Note 2004 With the proliferation of Hammond B-3 organ players that have emerged in the past ten years including Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Goldings, John Medeski and Dan Wall, it's hard to imagine a time when the instrument wasn't a common texture And, as the liner notes ...
Jimmy Smith: Retrospective
by Jeff Stockton
In over four hours of music spread across four discs, this collection demonstrates how Jimmy Smith revolutionized the Hammond B-3 as a jazz instrument of expressiveness and versatility, both as a sideman and as a leader. The usual Blue Note stars are here: Lou Donaldson's alto sax illuminates “Summertime" and cries the blues on “All Day ...
Prayer Meetin
By Jimmy Smith
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Prayer Meetin'
2. I Almost Lost My Mind
3. Stone Cold Dead in the Market
4. When the Saints Go Marching In
5. Red Top
6. Picnickin'7. Lonesome Road [*]
8. Smith Walk [*]
Jimmy Smith: Prayer Meetin
by Joel Roberts
Jimmy Smith and the late Stanley Turrentine were one of the great organ-sax combos, collaborating on a series of albums for Blue Note in the early '60s that helped define the genre of soul jazz. The last of those efforts was 1963's Prayer Meetin' , made at the end of a flurry of recording activity by ...
Christmas Cookin'
By Jimmy Smith
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Jingle Bells; We Three Kings (or Orient
Are); The Christmas Song; White Christmas; Santa Claus is Comin' to
Town; Silent Night; God Rest Ye Marry Gentlemen; Baby, It's Cold Outside;
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