R.I.P. Jimmy Smith

[princessofcairo]

hammond blues

[RGMike]

:cry:

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

[princessofcairo]

: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.

[ggould]

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

[urth]

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.      

[Alicat]

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

[princessofcairo]

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