Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Way You Look Tonight, The
2. You Get 'Cha
3. Midnight Sun
4. Lady Be Good
5. High and the Mighty, The
6. But Not For Me
7. Preacher, The
8. Tenderly
9. Joy
10. Champ, The
11. Bayou
12. Deep Purple
13. Moonlight in Vermont
14. Ready 'N Able
DISC 2:
1. Turquoise
2. Bubbis
3. Gone With the Wind
4. Jamey
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Slightly Monkish
7. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
8. Judy Mambo
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. Lover Come Back to Me
11. Well You Needn't
12. Fiddlin' the Minors
13. Autumn Leaves
14. I Cover the Waterfront
| Details | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Jimmy Smith (organ); Thornel Schwartz (guitar); Bay Perry, Donald Bailey (drums).
Producer: Alfred Lion.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey between February 18 and June 18, 1956. Includes liner notes by Babs Gonzales, Leonard Feather and Francis Wolff.
Collected here in a meaty two-disc set are Smith's first three Blue Note releases. Championed as "the world's greatest jazz organist," Smith burst upon the scene in the mid-'50s with a trail-blazing rhythmic and harmonic approach to the Hammond organ that defined the use of the instrument in jazz combos for the rest of the century. For those unfamiliar with Smith, this set is a perfect place to start. With less of an emphasis of low-key blues numbers than subsequent albums, the work here is informed by the energy and harmonic sophistication of bebop, and Smith is incandescent throughout.
Innovative, frantically paced attacks on standards like "The Way You Look Tonight" and "But Not For Me" are interspersed with sensitively painted mood pieces like "Tenderly" and "Willow Weep For Me," and treatments of compositions by other jazz greats (Monk, Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie). There are also a fair number of Smith originals, including the Latin-tinged starts and stops of "Judo Mambo," and "Fiddlin' The Minors," a mini-epic of blinding riffs.
Editorial Reviews
Jimmy Smith At The Organ Volumes 1-3. Personnel: Jimmy Smith (organ); Thornel Schwartz (guitar); Bay Perry, Donald Bailey (drums). Producer: Alfred Lion. Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey between February 18 and June 18, 1956. Includes liner notes by Babs Gonzales, Leonard Feather and Francis Wolff. Collected here in a meaty two-disc set are Smith's first three Blue Note releases. Championed as the world's greatest jazz organist, Smith burst upon the scene in the mid-'50s with a trail-blazing rhythmic and harmonic approach to the Hammond organ that defined the use of the instrument in jazz combos for the rest of the century. For those unfamiliar with Smith, this set is a perfect place to start. With less of an emphasis of low-key blues numbers than subsequent albums, the work here is informed by the energy and harmonic sophistication of bebop, and Smith is incandescent throughout. Innovative, frantically paced attacks on standards like The Way You Look Tonight and But Not For Me are interspersed with sensitively painted mood pieces like Tenderly and Willow Weep For Me, and treatments of compositions by other jazz greats (Monk, Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie). There are also a fair number of Smith originals, including the Latin-tinged starts and stops of Judo Mambo, and Fiddlin' The Minors, a mini-epic of blinding riffs.
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