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Title: R.I.P. Jimmy Smith
Post by: princessofcairo on February 09, 2005, 02:25:58 PM

hammond blues (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12205252-23109,00.html)

Title: R.I.P. Jimmy Smith
Post by: RGMike on February 09, 2005, 03:02:33 PM

:cry:

I have his Xmas album, but I'm rather illiterate as to his other stuff. Anything you'd recommend?

Title: R.I.P. Jimmy Smith
Post by: princessofcairo on February 09, 2005, 03:09:53 PM

Quote from: "RGMike"

:cry:

I have his Xmas album, but I'm rather illiterate as to his other stuff. Anything you'd recommend?

the sermon is probably my favorite. but that's a hard thing to say of someone who has two trillion albums. organ grinder swing, jimmy and wes, and back at the chicken shack are also very good. i just did an amazon sweep for those titles...i know the albums by the picture on the cover, not by name. :)

Title: Jimmy Smith?
Post by: ggould on February 09, 2005, 03:19:57 PM

Now, there's a giant of a man in the music world; gone.

Title: Re: Jimmy Smith?
Post by: urth on February 09, 2005, 03:25:41 PM

Quote from: "ggould"

Now, there's a giant of a man in the music world; gone.

I COMPLETELY agree. I just read this on a listserv I get, and was totally shocked--he was supposed to play Yoshi's with Joey Defrancesco this week, or maybe next?

What I always found funny was that this giant of jazz organists lived on a farm in the small town of Wilton, just south of Sacramento, for years and no one there knew who he was.  I was spoiled when I lived up there, as he played the local jazz bar, the On Broadway, at least a couple of times a year, so I got to see him more than a few times. Always rocked my world.  :(  :(  :(

Title: R.I.P. Jimmy Smith
Post by: Alicat on February 09, 2005, 03:37:00 PM

Wilton. Isn't there a nudist place/retreat there?

Title: R.I.P. Jimmy Smith
Post by: princessofcairo on February 09, 2005, 04:04:36 PM

there's a bit of jimmy smith on smoothfm.com right now. a tribute of sorts.