805520021395

Electrifyin'

Jimmy Smith

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: PROPERBOX139

Release Date:  31 March 2008

Label:  Proper Box

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  805520021395

Genres:  Jazz  

  • Description

    While the electric organ was used in jazz by Fats Waller and Count Basie, Smith's virtuoso improvisation technique on the Hammond helped to popularize the electric organ as a jazz and blues instrument. For ballads, he played walking bass lines on the bass foot pedals. For uptempo tunes, he would play the bass line on the lower manual and use the pedals for emphasis on the attack of certain notes, which helped to emulate the attack and sound of a string bass. Smith influenced many other jazz organists. More recently, Smith influenced bands such as the Beastie Boys, who sampled the bassline from "Root Down (And Get It)" - and saluted Smith in the lyrics - for their own hit "Root Down", also Medeski, Martin & Wood and The Hayden-Eckert Ensemble. The Acid Jazz movement also reflects Smith's organ style.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Champ
      • 2. Falling In Love With Love
      • 3. Funk's Oats
      • 4. Groovy Date
      • 5. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
      • 6. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
      • 7. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

      Disc 2

      • 1. Summertime
      • 2. Somebody Loves Me
      • 3. Plum Nellie
      • 4. Billie's Bounce
      • 5. Yardbird Suite
      • 6. There's A Small Hotel
      • 7. All Day Long
      • 8. All The Things You Are
      • 9. The Flight
      • 10. There Will Never Be Another You

      Disc 3

      • 1. How High The Moon
      • 2. Buns A Plenty
      • 3. The Duel
      • 4. Blue Moon
      • 5. Blues After All
      • 6. Just Friends
      • 7. J.O.S
      • 8. After Hours

      Disc 4

      • 1. My Funny Valentine
      • 2. Slightly Monkish
      • 3. Laura
      • 4. Just Friends
      • 5. Imagination
      • 6. Lover Man
      • 7. Body And Soul
      • 8. Indiana