Jimmy Smith

• 180 GRAM HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

If you know someone who says they don't get Jimmy Smith, just play them this album. It is consummate Hammond B3 playing with the added vibrancy of Lalo Schifrin's arrangements for the big band. "Basin Street Blues" eschews 1960s' sophistication, while the appropriately super cool "Delon's Blues" is dedicated to the French actor Alain Delon, who Smith had befriended while on tour in Europe in 1963.

This is a joyful, fabulous album that probably got more people listening to jazz than many of its contemporaries.

PERSONNEL:

• Jimmy Smith - (organ)
• Bernie Glow, Ernie Royal, Snooky Young, Jimmy Maxwell, Marky Markowitz, Thad Jones - (trumpet)
• Billy Byers, Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green - (trombone)
• Tony Studd - (bass trombone)
• Don Butterfield - (tuba)
• Bill Correa, Earl Chapin, Jim Buffington, Ray Alonge - (french horn)
• Kenny Burrell - (guitar)
• George Duvivier - (bass)
• Grady Tate - (drums)
• Phil Kraus - (percussion)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Theme From MGM Film "Joy House"
• A2. The Cat
• A3. Basin Street Blues
• A4. Main Title From Film "The Carpetbaggers"

• SIDE B
• B1. Chicago Serenade
• B2. St. Louis Blues
• B3. Delon's Blues
• B4. Blues In The Night