JIMMY SMITH Vol 2 Blue Note 1552 Jimmy Smith At The Organ Vinyl LP 1958 VG

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JIMMY SMITH Vol 2 Blue Note 1552 Jimmy Smith At The  Organ Vinyl LP 1958

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson plays on 2 of the 4 tracks on this 34 minute LP including Charlie Parkers Billie's Bounce with Kenny Burrell also soloing. The other 2 tracks are a trio track with Eddie Mc Fadden and a track with just Jimmy and Art Blakey.

1957 REVIEW

“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.”

Label:

Blue Note – BLP 1552

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono 

Country:

US

Released:

1957

Genre:

Jazz

Style:

Hard Bop, Bop

CONDITION: Used

VINYL: VG .Some scratches

JACKET: VG+

TRACK LISTING:

A1 Plum Nellie

Alto Saxophone – Lou Donaldson

Drums – Donald Bailey

Guitar – Eddie McFadden

A2 Billie's Bounce

Alto Saxophone – Lou Donaldson

Drums – Art Blakey

Guitar – Kenny Burrell

B1 The Duel

Drums – Art Blakey

B2 Buns A Plenty

Drums – Donald Bailey

Guitar – Eddie McFadden

CREDITS:

Design [Cover] – Reid Miles

Liner Notes – Robert Levin (2)

Organ – Jimmy Smith

Photography By [Photos] – Francis Wolff

Producer – Alfred Lion

Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder

Recorded at Manhattan Towers, NYC, February 12 & 13, 1957.

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