Jimmy Smith Selection of The Month

[Soulstation1]

sunny side of the street is niiiicccceeee

i like the "laid back" feel on this cd

i was looking for this cd the other day in the "t's" for stan the man

this is a recent (2004) jrvg i believe

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[Jazz Kat]

I yet to hear BATCS. Is it as laid-back as Home Cookin'. HC's very subtle, but it swings! I love Smith's rendition of I Got A Women.

[Soulstation1]

up for jimmy

rip

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[Harold_Z]

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.

[Jim Alfredson]

I yet to hear BATCS. Is it as laid-back as Home Cookin'. HC's very subtle, but it swings! I love Smith's rendition of I Got A Women.

You gotta hear McGriff's version... probably the quintessential organ version of that tune.

I love BAtCS. Gotta get it's cousin, Midnight Special, too.

Harold, couldn't have said it better myself.

[Soul Stream]

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.

Nice to hear someone complitment an actual organ bassline. Someone's listening! Anyway, along those same lines...Jimmy really lays the bass down nice, simply and clearly on this whole session. Not only a textbook example, it's the example on how to play this stuff right.

[Soulstation1]

should we do selection for jimmy next month?

this thread/idea hasn't seen much action

i was gonna through all the blue note and verve stuff

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