Milestone Profiles
Released: Jun 6, 2006
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Released: Jun 6, 2006
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Jimmy Smith was under contract to Milestone for only a few years, fairly late in his long and storied career. Since the label was purchased by the Concord conglomerate in 2005, Milestone now seems...
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Softly as a Summer Breeze - BONUS TRACKS
Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Softly as a Summer Breeze, released in 1965, is one of Jimmy Smith's more obscure Blue Note recordings. The six-song trio program finds the organist joined by either guitarist Kenny Burrell and...
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Music for Lovers
Released: Jan 24, 2006
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Released: Jan 24, 2006
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Part of Blue Note's Music for Lovers series -- although points should be taken off for the lousy covers -- these nine cuts show a different side of the wild, inventive, and funky soul-jazz organist...
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The Sounds of Jimmy Smith - BONUS TRACKS
Released: Sep 13, 2005
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Released: Sep 13, 2005
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Jimmy Smith's much copied jazz technique on the Hammond B-3 organ really came about when he was unable to find anyone to teach him the ins and outs of the instrument when he made the transition...
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At the Organ, Vol. 3
Released: Aug 2, 2005
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Released: Aug 2, 2005
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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...
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The Very Best
Released: May 24, 2005
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Released: May 24, 2005
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As part of Blue Note's Very Best series, Hammond organ pioneer Jimmy Smith is spotlighted on seven tracks, six recorded between 1956 and 1960, and "Fungii Mama," in 1986. This set is aimed at the...
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Retrospective
Released: Oct 5, 2004
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Released: Oct 5, 2004
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For those who have found B3 sensation Jimmy Smith's voluminous Blue Note catalog daunting and can't find a place to start, this handsome four-CD Retrospective, covering 30 years, may be the way in....
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