Jimmy Smith
Formed: 8th December 1928, Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Disbanded: 8th February 2005, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Nationality: American
James Oscar Smith was an American jazz musician whose albums often appeared on Billboard magazine charts. He helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music.
In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that America bestows upon jazz musicians.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Smith_(musician)
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Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
28th May 2025
Back at the Chicken Shack is a landmark 1963 soul jazz album, showcasing the virtuosic Hammond organ talents of Jimmy Smith. Performing alongside Stanley Turrentine and Kenny Burrell, this album is full of bluesy grooves, soulful melodies, and impeccable quartet chemistry.
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Jimmy Smith
20th Jun 2019
Another week, another new article heading, this one incorporating Classic album of the Week (it's their fault for showing me how to add categories). Jimmy Smith transformed the Hammond organ into a pukka jazz beast, so let's go Back to the Chicken Shack with Jimmy and also indulge in a brief(ish) history of the mighty B3, and its dark twin, the Leslie cabinet.
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The Cat
Jimmy Smith (organ), George Duvivier (double bass), Tony Studd (bass trombone), Phil Kraus (percussion), Snooky Young (trumpet), Ernie Royal (trumpet), Marky Markowitz (trumpet), Jimmy Maxwell (trumpet), Thad Jones (trumpet), Bernie Glow (trumpet), Urbie Green (trombone), Billy Byers (trombone), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Don Butterfield (tuba), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Jimmy Buffington (french horn), Bill Correa (french horn), Earl Chapin (french horn), Ray Alonge (french horn), Grady Tate (drums), Lalo Schifrin
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Grammy Awards, 8th Awards (1965), Best Original Jazz Composition
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Kenny Burrell (guitar), Eddie McFadden (guitar), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Lou Donaldson (alto saxophone), George Coleman (alto saxophone), Tina Brooks (tenor saxophone), Art Blakey (drums), Jimmy Smith (organ)
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