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Midnight Special
  front cover   side a

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Midnight Special
9:55
Jimmy Smith

A Subtle One
7:43
Stanley Turrentine

  
  back cover   side b

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Jumpin' The Blues
5:27
McShann / Parker / Brown

Why Was I Born
6:33
Kern / Hammerstein

One O'Clock Jump
6:59
Basie

  
  label a  

recording dates

studio

label

cat no.

  

25/4/60


Manhattan Towers

Blue Note

BLP 4078 / BST 84078

  

PERSONNEL
organ
Jimmy Smith
  
saxophone

Stanley Turrentine (Tenor)

  
     
guitar
   Kenny Burrell  
     
drums
  

Donald Bailey

  
  TECH  
producer
   Alfred Lion  
  label b  
engineer
   Rudy Van Gelder  
REISSUES label   year   cat no.      
    Phantom   ?      

 

  
     
    Blue Note   21/02/89   BST 84078      
     
    Heritage Jazz   1989   513100T      
     
    Blue Note   25/10/90   BST 84078      
     
    Blue Note Japan   25/10/00       Original Recording Remastered  
     
    Toshiba EMI   27/10/03       Limited Edition  
REVIEW   Recorded on the same as its more famous counterpart Back At The Chicken Shack, this set sees this illustrious quartet swinging at the bop end of the bop-soul meter. It offers three swinging bop numbers, a ballad and, best of the bunch, the opening track which is a great rolling blues. Turrentine's tenor is paricularly soulful here. Jimmy, of course, is Jimmy.