THE INCREDIBLE JIMMY SMITH - The Sounds of Jimmy Smith


The Sounds of Jimmy Smith

		front cover	side a	1 5 J 2 . . 3 . .	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.