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  1. the cd at borders was shelved under "d" towerrecords.com has it
  2. i think only a japanese import and from canada
  3. this guy bought $300/400 in jazz cds at one of the local used stores s-o-b bought my copy of crazy baby! one week they had 15 jimmy smith cds the next week 2 cds ss1
  4. shit i was just thinking about downloading james and wes for $.88 jimmy is on fire on this cut......... ss1 anyone make a dub of jimmy smith plays fats waller??
  5. someway somehow the lakers are gonna beat the stuffin' out da pistons tonight!!!!! c-webb will NEVER win the big game, now philly won't win..... i gotta give some props to mrs c-webb the finest wife in the nba ss1
  6. really nice article in downbeat during the past few months jimmy would play on sundays at bobby c's with joey and george benson man, i still can't believe i never heard anything about this shit ss1
  7. 34 rvgs i own every organ cd except for prayer meetin' ss1
  8. any stories or anything good/bad about the service thanks ss1
  9. i think espn showed the boxer's story instead of a piece on canseco, by mistake after coming back on air, they apologized for the error... how could they make a mistake like that???? is my boy in the espn control room ss1
  10. damn c-webb to philly i like what they've done to the queens the heat w/o the daddy ain't the same i had a dream they said he was out for the season b3er told me shaq would break down i hope you're wrong ss1
  11. greazzze and barry..... that reminds me of a ? i've always had about the b-man
  12. article about new b-3 new b3
  13. Jazz community mourns loss of organ pioneer Jimmy Smith Larry Rodgers The Arizona Republic Feb. 13, 2005 12:00 AM Jimmy Smith created a new jazz sound in the '50s when he brought the Hammond B-3 organ out of America's living rooms and into its nightclubs and juke joints. When he walked his feet over the bass pedals, pounded chords with his left hand and flew over the high notes with his right, he made a joyful noise that mixed R&B, blues, gospel and bebop. Smith died Tuesday at age 79 in his east Phoenix home. "It's like the loss of Miles Davis or John Coltrane or Charlie Parker - it's the same thing," says Valley organ whiz Joey DeFrancesco. advertisement If that's overstating, it's not by much. "In the '50s, he was the dominating force in jazz organ," says Patricia Myers, a Valley writer who covers jazz for local and national publications. "There were other organists - Shirley Scott, Jack McDuff, Jim McGriff - but he was the forward force." The power of Smith's playing made a longtime believer out of local jazz promoter Al Singer. "The B-3 links the blues, jazz and gospel," Singer says. "Nobody ever played it like Jimmy Smith." Singer points to Smith's sessions for Blue Note Records, for seven years, starting in 1956, as some of the most important - and profitable - for the legendary jazz imprint. The Sermon!, recorded in 1958, and 1960's Back at the Chicken Shack are two standouts from that period, Myers says. Smith later recorded another jazz classic, Walk on the Wild Side, for Verve Records. Even as his output became more spotty in the '80s and beyond, Smith toured internationally and commanded respect from his fellow musicians. "No matter how much I thought I knew all his stuff, he would still pull stuff out (onstage)," says DeFrancesco, who performed monthly with Smith at Bobby C's jazz club in central Phoenix for the past nine months. "Those old cats - don't mess with them," DeFrancesco says with a laugh. "They are loaded with . . . so many creative things, and (Smith) just wanted to keep moving forward." Smith formed a close bond with DeFrancesco, 33, and identified him as the leading candidate to carry on the B-3 evolution. "In a very sweet, loving way, he kind of passed the torch to me," DeFrancesco says. "It's an honor." Some who have encountered Smith in recent years might chuckle at DeFrancesco's "sweet, loving" reference. Smith could be arrogant to the media - in a 2003 interview, he told The Republic, "I'm Jimmy Smith, that's all you need to say" - and he didn't tolerate much talking at his shows. "If you were in the audience, and you were heckling or being too loud, Jimmy got on you, and that turned some people off," says Bobby C's owner Robert Clayton, who managed Smith's career for the past nine months. Smith came to the Valley in January 2004, when his wife, Lola, was fighting cancer. She died in March, and the loss hit Smith hard, Clayton says. His manager and DeFrancesco spent lots of time with Smith, trying to keep his health and spirits up. "I tried to bring him into our family, but Jimmy wasn't a person who had a lot of patience with kids," Clayton says. "He was hyperactive in his mind; he was always working on music. . . . That's how he rehearsed and practiced - in his mind." Although a leg injury had slowed Smith in the past year, he seemed to be rejuvenated onstage. Myers saw that spark as she watched him and DeFrancesco perform together in California in January to celebrate Smith's being named a jazz master by the National Endowment of the Arts: "He walked across in front of the stage, showing his every year. He looked like an old man, all bent over, but looking real nice, dressed in a suit. "They helped him onstage. He sat down at that bench. Joey started playing a riff, and Jimmy joined in, a grin on his face. As the minutes went by and he played, the decades just slipped away, and pretty soon he looked as young as Joey."
  14. 2 places i'm goin' taking a picture of the recording studio in scottsdale and then to bobby c's for a bite to eat ss1
  15. bottom line everytime he asks for a cdr of anything it's my duty........
  16. ps EVEN U SOULSTATION1 doesn't have a clue what the fuck Brother Affron is talking about.
  17. check out this link and go down about 6/7 peeps http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...hl%3Den%26lr%3D you stupid motherfuckers
  18. what number will moss wear? jerry porter wears "84" for the silver and black
  19. my blakey and the jazz messengers collection is really weak (less than 10 cds), but i have the mosaic set and imo there isn't a bad song on the entire set. i have a cdr of the 1988 release of like someone in love this is a nice cd, especially "sleeping dancer sleep on" ss1
  20. the new vikings' owner FFFFLLLLLAAAAAVVVVOOOORRRRR FFFFLLLLLAAAAAVVVVVVV
  21. johnny's blue - morgan noise in the attic -shorter sleeping dancer sleep on -shorter giantis- shorter only song not written by s/m like someone in love ss1
  22. doesn't b.a.t.c.s. kinda start out like a night in tunisia? ss1
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