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Jimmy Smith: NEA Jazz Master

Read "Jimmy Smith: NEA Jazz Master" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jimmy Smith: Retrospective

Read "Jimmy Smith: Retrospective" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Smith: Retrospective

Read "Retrospective" reviewed 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 ...

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Prayer Meetin

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 [*]

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Jimmy Smith: Prayer Meetin

Read "Prayer Meetin" reviewed 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 ...

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Christmas Cookin'

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; Greensleeves

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The Fantastic Jimmy Smith

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Stranger in Paradise 2. Jimmy's Jam 3. Its a Sin to Tell A Lie 4. I Can't Give You Anything but Love 5. I Had the Craziest Dream 6. Tell Me 7. I Hear a Rhapsody 8. Jeepers Creepers 9. Jimmys Swing 10. Misery 11. Jughead 12. Tea For Two Mambo 13. Sonotone Bounce 14. Dancing in the Ceiling 15. I'll Walk Alone 16. Skokiaan

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Jimmy Smith: Christmas Cookin'

Read "Christmas Cookin'" reviewed by Robert Gilbert


On the cover of Jimmy Smith's 1964 Christmas album, the organist is decked out in a Santa suit behind the wheel of a red sports car with a tree and presents in tow. The irreverent and fun photograph is a good primer to the contents inside, for this is no hackneyed rundown of a group of ...

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Jimmy Smith: The Fantastic Jimmy Smith

Read "The Fantastic Jimmy Smith" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan


The Fantastic Jimmy Smith, documents the beginnings of a remarkable career in music. This album is from the period of 1953-1955 when Smith first began to dedicate himself to the organ. While the recording here do not match the level of his later sides, the album provides insight into a man about to become ...


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