Jimmy Smith - Jimmy Smith At The Organ 'Blue Note Records

Artist	Jimmy Smith Related artists
Album name	Jimmy Smith At The Organ
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Date	Blue Note Records
Genre	Jazz
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Media	CD
Size	406 mb (+3%rec.)
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Jimmy Smith single-handedly reinvented the Hammond organ in a modern jazz
setting, and given the many Hammond players who have followed in his wake, most
of them working off of the same template that Smith established way back in the
early 1950s, it is easy to forget how amazingly brilliant he was on his chosen
instrument, as innovative in his own way as Charlie Parker was on sax or
Thelonious Monk on piano. Although he is chiefly known for his soul-jazz blues
trios, Smith had a wider musical palette than that, as this fine reissue (with
four bonus tracks), originally released by Blue Note in 1956, makes clear. With
Smith leading on organ (he adds bass with the foot pedals, as well), Thornel
Schwartz on electric guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums, the set kicks off with
the Bud Powell-like "Judo Mambo," which bubbles and percolates with joyous
abandonment, driven by Smith's bustling organ runs and the odd frog noises he
somehow manages to find among the stops. A leisurely and elegant "Willow Weep
for Me" follows, gradually drifting into a deliberate atonal fade. A version of
Thelonious Monk's "Well, You Needn't" is revelatory, retaining the original
composition's skewed, angular phrasing but adding in a thick, heavy Delta feel
that makes the overall tone of the piece seem a little less anxious. Smith's own
homage to Monk, "Slightly Monkish," is included here as one of the bonus tracks.
Again, it's easy to forget how innovative Smith actually was when he burst on
the jazz scene in the mid-'50s. He established the Hammond organ as a modern
jazz instrument, wrote the book on organ trios, not to mention soul-jazz (and
its edgy young cousin, acid jazz) as well as paving the road that brought jazz
to the edge of funk. All of this is pre-shadowed on this early Blue Note
recording, which makes available in an expanded version one of his most
energetic and varied albums.


Tracks:

1. Jimmy Smith - Judo Mambo (Remastered)
2. Jimmy Smith - Willow Weep For Me (Remastered)
3. Jimmy Smith - Lover Come Back To Me (Remastered)
4. Jimmy Smith - Well You Needn't (Remastered)
5. Jimmy Smith - Fiddlin' The Minors (Remastered)
6. Jimmy Smith - Autumn Leaves (Remastered)
7. Jimmy Smith - I Cover The Waterfront (Remastered)
8. Jimmy Smith - Jamey (Remastered)
9. Jimmy Smith - My Funny Valentine (Remastered)
10. Jimmy Smith - I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Remastered)
11. Jimmy Smith - Slightly Monkish (Live At Smalls' Paradise, Harlem, NYC, 1957
/ Remastered 2004)