Harold_Z

Yeah...if you don't have this material this is a good shot at it. I prefer the sound on this to even the JSP (and The JSP is great ).

Actually this is one of those classic albums that no collection should be without...like The Sidewinder or Song For My Father. When those records first came out in the 60s you were definitely a square if you didn't have them. You can add the Lou Rawls Live Capitol album to that same list. Even the people with just a passing acquaintence with Jazz had those records. Not a dud track on Chicken Shack. I love the contrast Jimmy creates with his bassline on the 9th and 10th bars of the head on Chicken Shack (to name just one nice moment of many). When I Grow To Old To Dream is also a gas from start to finish and for my money is quintessential Stanley.

I agree with Jim that the player on the Jon Hendricks is most likely not the "alternate" Jimmy. Time and locale seem to work against that.

Mike, the Jimmy Smith on the King Curtis and Cornell Dupree dates isn't the same Jimmy Smith. The "alternate" Jimmy Smith is from Brooklyn and has played quite a bit with the guys associated with King Curtis, Cornell Dupree, Gordon Edwards, Chuck Rainey, etc. I last saw him play about 3 years ago with Gordon Edwards and Cornell Dupree at a "Stuff" reincarnation.

Frank Assunto was the trumpet player for the Dukes Of Dixieland, who were recording for Columbia at that time. He was completely comfortable in a mainstream setting such as the "The Midnight Roll" (the Herb Ellis lp that appears here) and I believe Columbia was trying to show his versatility away from a Dixieland setting. Unfortunately Frank Assunto passed away sometime in the late 60s or early 70s.

I'm with Herb on this one! There are great moments on ANY Jimmy Smith recording I've heard.

Thanks John L.

What can you say or think when somebody like Jimmy Smith goes?

Do any of these allow you to adjust the burn rate? I've heard that 8X is optimal.

Isn't that the same fate that befell Little Willie John in the mid 60s ?

Welcome, Chandra. Don't worry, Norah's cool with a lot of us.

The music is back !

The DID make it. Thankfully. Roy Eldridge birthday broadcast is happening. a perfect example of what makes this station valued, special and unique. Where else are you going to get 24 hours plus of Roy Eldridge ?

Look Out by Johnny Hammond Smith is another good one. Johnny Hammond is joined by vibist Clement Wells.

Yeah...I said something like " tell me where there's a roller skating rink with THAT band!" The same person on another occasion told me she just loved jazz - she had heard Joe Tex's "Big Legs And All" record on the radio. WTF !

Apropos the above post...a couple of years back I was playing Jimmy Smith's Open House cd on my PC at my day gig. An office colleauge made some comment relating to roller skating rinks! Jimmy Smith !

The sides Miff did for Commodore are excellent. Probably the only ones easy to find are the Muggsy Spanier sessions that are available on Chronogical Classics. There were also Commodore dates under Bobby Hackett and Miff himself. All excellent.

DJs weren't on the horizon when I started doing gigs - at least not outside the context of discotheques. Once they started doing club dates/casuals the handwriting was on the wall. Audiences dug it - they didn't have to complain that the band did a song "different" from the record.

Yeah...it's over. There's a guy on my daygig that DJs. He makes several hundred per gig and up - what musicians should be getting. When audiences prefer a guy playing records to live bands it's all over.... and it aint coming back. There's no reason for it to come back. I think those of us over 40 or 50 at least were able to get a taste of what it was like when gigs were in abundance.

Staples has a sale on - a spindle of 50 Sony for $10. What's the plural of Sony ?

I like the Bud Freeman version originally recorded for Keynote and later released on Emarcy and now available on Chronogical Classics. Wild Bill Davison is in fine form on this. Off on a tangent: Another tune with the same name was done by The Temptations and also Gladys Knight. Some quitessential James Jamerson on both of those, particularly the Gladys.

BTW - Teddy is the trumpeter on screen behind Elvis in "King Creole" when they do "Evil".

Makes sense to me - they're all recordings

Brad is correct. WKCR is invaluable. I pledged last Saturday. It should be pointed out that they only have an on air fund drive when they are really up against the wall. The last fund drive before this drive was several years ago.

Totally uncalled for. Chris was on the scene for a lot of important happenings on the jazz scene and he knows the history of this music inside out...and besides all that..NO poster deserves to be disrepected like that.