THE INCREDIBLE JIMMY SMITH


Crazy! Baby

		front cover	side a	1 5 J 2 . . 3 . .	When Johnny Comes Marching Home 8:50 Louis Lambert Makin' Whoopee 4:55 W Donaldson / G Kahn Night in Tunisia 5:40 D Gillespie / F Paparelli

		back cover	side 2	1 5 J 2 . . 3 . . 4	Sonnymoon for Two 7:15 Sonny Rollins Mack the Knife 5:00 Weill / Brecht / Blitzstein What's New? 3:45 B Hoggart / J Burke Alfredo 4:25 Jimmy Smith

		label a	recording dates studio label cat no.		04/01/60 Manhattan Towers Blue Note BLP 4030 / BST 84030

		PERSONNEL	organ		Jimmy Smith

			guitar		Quentin Warren

			drums		Donald Bailey

		TECH	producer		Alfred Lion

		label b – all from 1986 reissue	engineer		Rudy Van Gelder

REISSUES	label	year	cat no.
	Blue Note France	1986	BST 84030

	Blue Note	25/10/90	BST 84030		with extra tracks: If I Should Lose You 6:26 Raigner / Robin When Lights Are Low 5:38 Carter / Williams

	Blue Note Japan	30/06/93

	EMI International	27/02/01	9242		RVG Edition; extra tracks as 1990 issue

REVIEW	Why Jimmy was still using the warbly, rinky-dink setting on his organ when he recorded this set is a mystery. He uses it here on three tracks and it's just not nice. Happily, there are treats in store. For one there is his first recording of the perennial Dizzy Gillepsie tune A Night In Tunisia, which has that patented swing-and-bounce Smith magic. Best of all is the opening track which, once you get over the suprising material, has a great Jimmy solo, replete with a good early example of his two-note repeptetive hold. It's cunningly bookended by some tight military drumming from Bailey.