There Will Never Be Another You * 5:35
Gordon / Warren
The Fight 5:05
Smith
Blue Moon * 8:42 Rodgers-Hart
back cover
side b
1 5 J
2 . .
3 . .
All The Things You Are 5:37 Kern-Hammerstein II
Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart ** 8:37 J F Hanley
Somebody Loves Me * 5:14 De Sylva / Gershwin / MacDonald
label a
recording dates
studio
label
cat no.
b2, 7: 11/02/57
b3: 12/02/57
all others: 13/02/57
Manhattan Towers
Blue Note
BLP 1556
PERSONNEL
organ
Jimmy Smith
guitar
Eddie McFadden * / **
drums
Donald Bailey *
Art Blakey **
TECH
producer
Alfred Lion
label b
engineer
Rudy Van Gelder
REISSUES
label
year
cat no.
LP
Blue Note
1959
BST 81556
CD
Blue Note Japan
24/02/04
-
with extra tracks:
First Night Blues ** 8:06 Jimmy Smith
Cherokee * 8:12 Noble
The Third Day * 6:41
CD
Blue Note Japan
04/05/04
-
CD
Blue Note
13/09/05
81556
RVG Edition, with extra tracks (as above)
REVIEW
Jimmy seems to have lost his Jimmy-organ
setting on several of the tracks here, unwisely employing both a warbly
skating rink sound and one that would be better suited to a funeral. And
then there is The Fight, an experimental piece that he plays unaccompained.
Even the fans will want to skip this one. The set is only rescued by Zing…
which is incredibly fast.