[ Avid / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 26 September 2018
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AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD second set release from Jimmy Smith, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details
"The Sermon"; "Crazy! Baby"; "House Party" and "Midnight Special"
We don't think we would find many detractors if we were to say that our latest guest artist is probably the most famous jazz Hammond organist in the world. Mr Jimmy Smith, or to give him his rightful name The Incredible Jimmy Smith spent his formative years in the early 1950s in R&B bands playing piano and dabbling with the Hammond organ. After hearing Wild Bill Davis he made the permanent switch to the Hammond and was soon discovered by Blue Note supremo Alfred Lion. Smith was incredibly prolific, (hmm, perhaps that's where the name came from?), recording over forty sessions for Blue Note in a period of just eight years. He made many classic albums and we at AVID think we have snagged four of his best! Here's a few of the names on these swinging platters. Tina Brooks, Lou Donaldson, George Coleman, Lee Morgan, Kenny Burrell, Art Blakey, Curtis Fuller, Donald Bailey and Stanley Turrentine.
Check out also Classic Organists AMSC1306, Lou Donaldson AMSC1251, Art Blakey AMSC1017 and AMSC1269, Curtis Fuller AMSC1326, Lee Morgan AMSC1255, Kenny Burrell AMSC1327, Stanley Turrentine AMSC1319.
CD1
1-12: 'Dakota'
1. Rock Me To Sleep
2. Don't Leave Me Now
3. If I Love Again
4. Make Me A Present Of You
5. On Green Dolphin Street
6. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
7. Weak For A Man
8. Meet Me At No Special Place
9. The Masquerade Is Over
10. Pick Yourself Up
11. I'll Close My Eyes
12. Trapped
13-24: 'Dakota Staton Sings Ballads and The Blues'
13. Someone To Watch Over Me
14. I Need Your Love So Bad
15. Why Don't You Think Things Over
16. Romance In The Dark
17. My One And Only Love
18. Love Me
19. I'll Know
20. Where Flamingos Fly
21. Time Was
22. My Babe
23. Come Home
24. Seems Like You Just Don't Care
CD2
1-12: 'Softly'
1. You're Mine You
2. Dedicated To You
3. Close Your Eyes
4. Solitude
5. My Wish
6. The Very Thought Of You
7. Be Anything
8. Congratulations To Someone
9. Whispering Grass
10. Old Folks
11. Body And Soul
12. I Can't Get Started Without You
13-24: ''Round Midnight'
13. 'Round Midnight
14. Knock Me A Kiss
15. Let Them Talk
16. Indiana
17. You Call It Madness
18. So In Love
19. I Won't Worry
20. Don't Explain
21. Will You Still Be Mine
22. Along About Midnight
23. The Folks Who Live On The Hill
24. Hey Lawdy Mama