Bluesmith
1972 studio album by Jimmy Smith
| Bluesmith | ||||
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| Studio album by Jimmy Smith | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | September 11, 1972 | |||
| Genre | Jazz-funk, jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 42:33 | |||
| Label | Verve V6-8809 | |||
| Producer | Eric Miller | |||
| Jimmy Smith chronology | ||||
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Bluesmith is a 1972 jazz album by Jimmy Smith, released on the Verve label.[1][2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Allmusic awarded the album four and a half stars, with reviewer Scott Yanow writing that it was "...ironic that one of Jimmy Smith's best Verve releases would be his next-to-last for the label." Yanow also commented that it was a "surprisingly freewheeling but relaxed jam session" and "Fine straight-ahead music."[1]
Track listing
- All compositions by Jimmy Smith unless otherwise noted
- "Straight Ahead" (Oliver Nelson, Jimmy Smith) - 5:25
- "Absolutely Funky" - 9:12
- "Lolita" - 6:23
- "Mournin' Wes" (Harvey Siders) - 10:00
- "Blues for 3+1" - 4:52
- "Bluesmith" - 6:41
Personnel
- Jimmy Smith - Electronic organ
- Teddy Edwards - tenor saxophone
- Ray Crawford - guitar
- Leroy Vinnegar - double bass
- Victor Pantoja - Congas
- Donald Dean - drums
- Production
- Harvey Siders - liner notes
- Ken Veeder - photography
- Ed Greene, Louis Peters - engineer
- Eric Miller - producer
- Eddie Ray - executive producer
References
External links
- Bluesmith at The Incredible Jimmy Smith site
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Jimmy Smith
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
albums
- A New Sound... A New Star... Volume 1 (1956)
- A New Sound A New Star: Jimmy Smith at the Organ Volume 2 (1956)
- The Incredible Jimmy Smith at the Organ (1956)
- At Club Baby Grand (1956)
- A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957)
- A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (1957)
- The Sounds of Jimmy Smith (1957)
- Plays Pretty Just for You (1957)
- Jimmy Smith Trio + LD (1957)
- Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise (1957)
- House Party (1958)
- The Sermon (1958)
- Softly as a Summer Breeze (1958)
- Cool Blues (1958)
- Six Views of the Blues (1958)
- Home Cookin' (1958–59)
- Crazy! Baby (1960)
- Open House (1960)
- Plain Talk (1960)
- Midnight Special (1960)
- Back at the Chicken Shack (1960)
- Straight Life (1961)
- Plays Fats Waller (1962)
- I'm Movin' On (1963)
- Bucket! (1963)
- Rockin' the Boat (1963)
- Prayer Meetin' (with Stanley Turrentine, 1963)
- One Night with Blue Note (1985)
albums
- Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (1962)
- Hobo Flats (1963)
- Any Number Can Win (1963)
- Blue Bash! (with Kenny Burrell, 1963)
- The Cat (1964)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964)
- Christmas '64 (1964)
- Monster (1965)
- Organ Grinder Swing (1965)
- Got My Mojo Workin' (1966)
- Hoochie Coochie Man (1966)
- Peter & the Wolf (1966)
- Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (with Wes Montgomery, 1966)
- Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes (1966)
- Respect (1967)
- The Boss (1968)
- Groove Drops (1970)
- The Other Side of Jimmy Smith (1970)
- Root Down (1972)
- Bluesmith (1972)
- Damn! (1995)
- Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams (1995)
- Dot Com Blues (2000)
other labels
- Black Smith (1974)
- The Original Jam Sessions 1969 (Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby, 1969)
- Smackwater Jack (Quincy Jones, 1971)
- Ellington Is Forever (Kenny Burrell, 1975)
- Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Kenny Burrell, 1975)
- Straight Ahead (Stanley Turrentine, 1984)
- L.A. Is My Lady (Frank Sinatra, 1984)
- Bad (Michael Jackson, 1987)
- Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994)
