Jimmy Smith Second Coming 1981 Tracks: 01 Reunion 02 Second Coming 03 (When I Lost My Baby) I Almost Lost My Mind 04 Its All Right With Me 05 Well, You Neednt 06 Organ Grinders Swing 07 Yesterday I Heard The Rain Personnel: Jimmy Smith, Hammond B-3 Kenny Burrell, Guitar Grady Tate, Drums Recorded: in 1980 Label: Mojo Records [MJ-12830] Vinyl, LP US 1981 Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, at the age of six he joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine in clubs. He began teaching himself to play the piano. When he was nine, Smith won a Philadelphia radio talent contest as a boogie-woogie pianist. After a stint in the navy, he began furthering his musical education in 1948, with a year at Royal Hamilton College of Music, then the Leo Ornstein School of Music in Philadelphia in 1949. He began exploring the Hammond organ in 1951. From 1951 to 1954 he played piano, then organ in Philly R&B bands like Don Gardner and the Sonotones. He switched to organ permanently in 1954 after hearing Wild Bill Davis. Smith had a career revival in the 1980s and 1990s, again recording for Blue Note and Verve, and for Milestone and Elektra and Mojo Records. Smith also recorded with other artists including Quincy Jones/Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson (he plays on the title track of the Bad album), Dee Dee Bridgewater and Joey DeFrancesco and more... While the electric organ had been used in jazz by Fats Waller, Count Basie, Wild Bill Davis and others, Smiths virtuoso improvisation technique on the Hammond helped to popularize the electric organ as a jazz and blues instrument. The B3 and companion Leslie speaker produce a distinctive sound, including percussive clicks with each key stroke. Smiths style on fast tempo pieces combined bluesy licks with bebop-based single note runs. For ballads, he played walking bass lines on the bass pedals. For uptempo tunes, he would play the bass line on the lower manual and use the pedals for emphasis on the attack of certain notes, which helped to emulate the attack and sound of a string bass. Smith influenced a constellation of jazz organists, including Jimmy McGriff, Brother Jack McDuff, Don Patterson, Richard Groove Holmes, Joey DeFrancesco and Larry Goldings, as well as rock keyboardists such as Jon Lord, Brian Auger and Keith Emerson. More recently, Smith influenced bands such as the Beastie Boys, who sampled the bassline from Root Down (and Get It) from Root Down—and saluted Smith in the lyrics—for their own hit Root Down, Medeski, Martin & Wood, and the Hayden-Eckert Ensemble. Often called the father of acid jazz, Smith lived to see that movement come to reflect Smiths organ style. In the 1990s, Smith went to Nashville, taking a break from his ongoing gigs at his Sacramento restaurant which he owned and, in Music City, Nashville, he produced, with the help of a webmaster, Dot Com Blues, his last Verve album. In 1999, Smith guested on two tracks of a live album, Incredible!, the hit from the 1960s, with his protégé, Joey DeFrancesco, a then 28-year-old organist. Smith and DeFrancescos collaborative album Legacy was released in 2005 shortly after Smiths death. ~ wikipedia.org www41.zippyshare/v/94246298/file.html
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