THE INCREDIBLE JIMMY SMITH - Back At The Chicken Shack


Back At The Chicken Shack

		front cover	side a	1 5 J 2 . .	Back At The Chicken Shack 8:02 Jimmy Smith When I Grow To Old To Dream 9:51 Rogers / Hammerstein

		back cover	side b	1 5 J 2 . .	Minor Chant 7:30 Stanley Turrentine Messy Bessie 12:30 Jimmy Smith

		label a	recording dates studio label cat no.		25/4/60 Manhattan Towers Blue Note BST 84117

		PERSONNEL	organ		Jimmy Smith

			saxophone		Stanley Turrentine (Tenor)

			guitar		Kenny Burrell

			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	BST 84117

	Blue Note	25/10/90	BST 84117		extra track: On The Sunny Side Of The Street

	Blue Note Japan	25/05/94

	Blue Note	22/11/00	9246		RVG Edition; same extra track as 1990 issue

REVIEW	The title track here is, again, one of Jimmy's most famous tunes. It is one he composed himself and, as you may expect, has a mid-tempo bouncing groove. He begins the melody, takes the first and longest solo and essentially, dictates the whole tune: he is the leader here, not one of a collective. If the album where that tune alone, it'd be worth picking it up. As it is, there are three others. None of them are quite of the same calibre, but they're not going to make you stop the record.