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HONEY 050LP
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Reissue, originally released in 1957. Jimmy Smith was the most inventive and technically skilled organist of the bop generation. A Date With Jimmy Smith features performances recorded in the same year with Smith heading a sextet including a bunch of Blue Note heavyweights such as Donald Byrd (trumpet), Lou Donaldson (alto saxophone), Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone), Art Blakey (drums), plus a guitar-organ-drums combo with guitarist Eddie McFadden and drummer Donald Bailey, and as one would expect with those names this is groovy jazz at its best. Recorded on February 11 and 12, 1957.
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DAD 147LP
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Down At Dawn Records present a reissue of House Party, the fourteenth album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith, featuring performances recorded in 1957 and 1958 and originally released on Blue Note. Rudy Van Gelder used the Manhattan Towers Hotel Ballroom in New York City for recording sessions from 1957-1958, while he was still using his parents' Hackensack, New Jersey home studio to record artists for Blue Note. House Party was the first of two Smith albums recorded on two dates; the second was Smith's next album The Sermon! (DAD 101LP, 2018), originally released in 1959. Van Gelder mainly used the ballroom for larger groups of musicians that would not fit in his parents' living room, or when New York was a more convenient location to record the artists involved.
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DAD 101LP
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Down At Dawn present a reissue of Jimmy Smith's The Sermon!, originally released in 1959. Recorded in 1959, The Sermon! appeared as another proof that Jimmy Smith was the most inventive organist of the bop generation. This was the product of a marathon jam session including highly energetic hard bop renditions of Charlie Parker tunes like "Confirmation" and "Au Privave" and a mind-blowing line-up featuring jazz masters of the time such as Lee Morgan (trumpet), Lou Donaldson (alto sax), Art Blakey (drums), Tina Brooks (tenor sax), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Kenny Burrell (guitar), and George Coleman (tenor sax). Edition of 300.
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