Results for "Jimmy Smith"

Jimmy Smith: Six Views of the Blues

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 1999

Greeeezy! Organist Jimmy Smith never made a bad record for Blue Note. A couple of his Verve recordings are stinkers, but still have some merit. But his Blue Note Recordings, well, they are the epitome of B-3 Hard Bop. That is why the revelation of previously unreleased Blue Note Sides is such a ...

The Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note Editions-Part 3

by C. Andrew Hovan
November 1, 1999

Unless you've been out of town for many months, you're probably aware of what has become one of the most spirited jazz industry events in recent memory. Specifically, accomplished recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder was asked by Toshiba-EMI in Japan to personally remaster a great number of the Blue Notes that he almost single-handedly recorded during ...

Standards

By Jimmy Smith

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Little Girl Blue, Bye I Didn't Know What Time It Was, Memories of You, But Beautiful, Mood Indigo, While We're young, It Might As Well Be Spring, The Last Dance.

The Complete Blue Note February 1957 Jimmy Smith

By Jimmy Smith

Label:
Released: 1998
Track listing:

Disc 1:Falling in Love with Love, First Night Blues, Funk's Oats, Groovy Date, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart.Disc 2:Zing Went the Strings to My Heart, I'm Getting Sentimental Over you, Summertime, Plum Nellie, Plum Nellie (Alt), Billie's Bounce, Yardbird Suite, There's a Small Hotel, All Day Long.Disc 3:Somebody Loves Me, The Third Day, All the Things You Are, The Fight, There Will Never Be Another You, How High The Moon, Buns A Plenty, the Duel, Blue Moon, Cherokee.

Jimmy Smith: The Complete Blue Note February 1957 Jimmy Smith

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 1998

The Miracle of Mosaic. The Complete February 1957 Jimmy Smith Blue Note Sessions is not a new release. It made the market in 1994 as a limited edition set of 5,000 three CD or 5 LP sets by the masters of the jazz reissue, Michael Cuscuna and Mosaic Records. The copy I have is numbered 3801 ...

Jimmy Smith: Standards

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 1998

Back at the Chicken Shack. The jazz organ is one of the few instruments that has been completely dominated by a single individual. That individual is Jimmy Smith. Born in Norristown, PA, Smith studied music in Philadelphia, a major jazz organ center. Starting on piano, he switched to the organ three years prior to his first ...

Got My Mojo Workin/Hoochie Coochie Man

By Jimmy Smith

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1997

A New Sound...A New Star... Jimmy Smith At The Organ Vol. 1-3

By Jimmy Smith

Label: HighNote
Released: 1997

Jazz Profile: Jimmy Smith

By Jimmy Smith

Label: HighNote
Released: 1997

Jimmy Smith: Got My Mojo Workin/Hoochie Coochie Man

by Douglas Payne
April 1, 1997

When compared to his Blue Note catalog, Jimmy Smith's Verve records have a reputation for being commercial. Despite artistic triumphs like Hobo Flats (1963), The Cat (1964), Peter & The Wolf (1966) and Bluesmith (1972), it could hardly get more commercial than these two albums, Got My Mojo Workin' from 1965 and Hoochie Coochie Man from ...