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Softly As A Summer Breeze

  front cover   side a

1
5
J

2
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3
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These Foolish Things
5:25
Strachley / Marvell / Link

Hackensack
5:55
Thelonious Monk

It Could Happen To You
5:55
Burke / Van Heusen

 
  rear cover   side b

1
5
J

2
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3
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Sometimes I'm Happy
8:13
Caesar / Youmans

Someone To Watch Over Me *
6:40
Gershwin

Home Cookin'
(AKA Ode To Philly Joe) *
4:45
Horace Silver

  
  label a  

recording dates


studio

label

cat no.

  

26/02/58
14/10/58 **

Manhatten Towers

Blue Note

BLP 4200

  

PERSONNEL
organ
Jimmy Smith
  
     
vocal
   Bill Henderson **  
     
guitar
  

Kenny Burrell
Ray Crawford **
Eddie McFadden *

  
     
drums
  

Donald Bailey * / **
Philly Joe Jones

  
  TECH  
producer
   unknown  
  label b  
engineer
   Rudy Van Gelder  
REISSUES label   year   cat no.      
LP
   Blue Note   -   BST 84200      
                   
CD
   Blue Note   1998   97505  

with extra tracks:

Willow Weep For Me **
3:24
Ronell

Ain't No Use **
2:40
Kirkland / Wyche

Angel Eyes **
3:25
Brent / Dennis

Ain't That Love **
2:45
Charles

  
     
CD
   Blue Note Japan   24/02/04   4200      
     
CD
   Blue Note Japan   24/04/04   4200      
     
CD
   Blue Note   2006       Original Recording Remastered  
REVIEW   For this set, you can almost feel Jimmy's impatience with bop. There's nothing wrong as such, but a certain feeling that perhaps his heart isn't quite in it, which is not really a great surprise considering the quantity of work he was laying down at this time. Still, there are enough moments here to keep interest. Best of all is a briskly-paced run through Monk's Hackensack that sees some fine work from both Burrell and Smith.