THE INCREDIBLE JIMMY SMITH


Bucket!

		front cover	side a	1 5 J 2 . . 3 . . 4	Bucket 4:40 Jimmy Smith Careless Love 3:55 Handy / Williams / Koenig 3 For 4 4:15 Jimmy Smith Just Squeeze Me 5:40 Gaines / Ellington

		back cover	side b	1 5 J 2 . . 3 .	Sassy Mae 4:15 Jimmy Smith Come Rain Or Come Shine 5:40 Mercer / Arlen John Brown's Body 6:05 trad.

		label a	recording dates studio label cat no.		01/02/63 Manhattan Towers Blue Note BLP 4235 / BST 84235 first issued in 1966

		PERSONNEL	organ		Jimmy Smith

			guitar		Quentin Warren

			drums		Donald Bailey

		TECH	producer		Alfred Lion

		label b – all from 1985 reissue	engineer		Rudy Van Gelder

REISSUES	label	year	cat no.
	Blue Note France	1985	BLP 4235

	Blue Note	2000	5245502		with extra tracks: Trouble In Mind Sassy Mae (Alternate Take)

REVIEW	Here we can really hear the Smith soul jazz sound coming into existence: the groove and the bounce, the two-note repetitions and the high holds in the solos are all present, notably on the title tune. However at the time the world was kept in the dark, as this album wasn't released until '66, by which time Jimmy had hit the stratosphere. In fact, of the twelve albums of material that currently are available from this period, that being his last three years on Blue Note, only five were released at the time.