JIMMY SMITH AT THE ORGAN VOL.2-V.RARE ORIG.1st PRESS MONO BLUE NOTE 1552 LP-1957
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JIMMY SMITH AT THE ORGAN VOLUME 2 - VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1st PRESS MONO BLUE NOTE LP -1552 - A/B - 1957
Very Rare Original 1st Press Album by Jimmy Smith
“Jimmy Smith at the Organ”
Volume 2
MONO
Released on the Blue Note Record Label
Blue Note Records Inc. New York USA
BLP 1552
Matrix:
BN-LP-1552-A
BN-LP-1552-B
“The jazz world is in a chronic state of confusion. Young musicians, aching with the desire to say something new and “different”, are forever going off in scores of directions, hoping to fulfil themselves artistically, draw plaudits from yawning critics and maybe “pick up some loot” in the bargain. Any direction is valid if it is intelligent and sincere but as to its ultimate importance, well, that’s something else. Many progressive musicians have lengthened the form but, in the process, have lost the concept of swinging. What they play and write may be music but is it jazz?
Those contemporary musicians, who, in my opinion, may be classified as greats; Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Thelanious Monk, Milt Jackson, and a few others, all play with a modern conception but never lose sight of their origins. Spirituals, gospels, blues (no matter how latent they may be at times) are always an integral part of their music – the underlying, basic factor. These men are direct descendants of the exponents of the above musical forms. They have a profound knowledge of, and respect for the history of their art. They know – feel intrinsically what’s “happening” and apply these qualities, perhaps without realizing it.
Jimmy Smith is such a musician.
He is definitely on his way to becoming a “great”. A swinging, highly percussive organist, firmly entrenched in jazz tradition, Jimmy projects an earthy warmth, through a bop conception, that is analogous to the blues shouters of bygone days. He is an exciting, dynamic performer, capable of playing ballads and uptempo numbers with consummate skill (certainly unequalled skill on his instrument) and has already (he’s been on the “big-time” scene only a year) received much praise from what are usually caustic critics, musicians and fans.
Only the late Fats Waller and Wild Bill Davis had achieved any real prominence as jazz organists until Jimmy made his spectacular debut last year (1956) at the Café Bohemia in New York’s Greenwich Village. Those in the audience that first night could not help but remark in endless superlatives about his striking originality and brilliant technique
Our of Norristown, Pennsylvania, Jimmy’s professional background consists, in the main, of R&B gigs that, dull and inartistic as they may be, no doubt had much to do with the development of his inherent “blues feeling”.
These are Jimmy’s eighth and ninth albums for Blue Note, but he remains one of the few “new” musicians who has not been overrecorded.”
ROBERT LEVIN
JIMMY SMITH, organ
LOU DONALDSON, alto sax
KENNY BURRELL, EDDIE McFADDEN, guitars
ART BLAKEY, DONALD BAILEY, drums
The Track List is as follows:
SIDE 1
PLUM NELLIE
BILLIE’S BOUNCE
SIDE 2
THE DUEL
BUNS A PLENTY
The LP is in Very Good Condition with just a few surface marks and surface scratches
It plays well, with just normal old MONO static etc
The Sleeve is in Very Good Condition with a small amount of scuffing at the bottom and top by the spine and on the back B25 has been written under 1552 Vol.2 and there is a very small label – “MECOLICO” stuck underneath that.
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