THE INCREDIBLE JIMMY SMITH "BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK" AP, 2LP, 45RPM, NE, NEW

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                                                                      THE INCREDIBLE JIMMY SMITH "BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK"
2010 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS "THE BLUE NOTE REISSUES", 2LP, 45RPM, 180G VIRGIN VINYL, CATALOG NUMBER AP-84117, RECORDED BY RUDY VAN GELDER, MASTERED BY KEVIN GRAY AND STEVE HOFFMAN AT ACOUSTECH MASTERING, USING THE ORIGINAL ANALOG BLUE NOTE MASTER TAPES, PRESSED AT RTI, CAMARILLO, CA.
"JIMMY SMITH'S APRIL 25, 1960 SESSION WITH THE PERFECT CAST OF STANLEY TURRENTINE, KENNY BURRELL AND DONALD BAILEY PRODUCED THESE TWO (MIDNIGHT SPECIAL & BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK) CLASSIC ALBUMS THAT ARE THE PINNACLE OF THE ORGAN-TENOR STYLE. A PERFECT SELECTION OF MATERIAL PLAYED AT THE PERFECT TEMPO BY GREAT MUSICIANS WHO CONNECTED ON THE DEEPEST, MOST SOULFUL LEVEL. NOT A BAD DAY'S WORK."
"JIMMY SMITH WAS A SELF-TAUGHT PIANIST WHO ABANDONED THE INSTRUMENT IN 1954 IN FAVOR OF THE HAMMOND B3 ORGAN, RENTING A PHILADELPHIA WAREHOUSE AND WOODSHEDDING FOR A YEAR UNTIL HE EMERGED WITH A REVOLUTIONARY STYLE THAT IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT THE EAR OF ALFRED LION. THE BLUE NOTE BOSS DUBBED HIM THE INCREDIBLE JIMMY SMITH AND RECORDED THE B3 INNOVATOR AS FREQUENTLY AS HE COULD BETWEEN 1956 AND 1963."
"START WITH "BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK." PERFECTLY NAMED, EVEN BETTER PLAYED, THIS 1960 RELEASE IS ONE OF THOSE DIMLY LIT, BACK-ALLEY BLUE NOTE CLASSICS OF SINGULAR BRILLIANCE. PRIMARILY, THAT'S BECAUSE SMITH HAD, BY THEN, COMPLETELY INHABITED HIS SPOT AS THE BLUES CAT WHO PLAYED BEBOP. SMITH, SEE, WAS AMONG THE FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF A FOOT IN THE ORGAN STYLE. A PIONEER OF THE BASSLESS TRIO, SINCE HE HAD SUCH LOW-END DEXTERITY, HE ALSO POSSESSED A RARE TWO-HANDED ARTISTRY--HAVING BECOME EQUALLY ADEPT AT LEFTY CHORDAL ACCOMPANIMENT AS WITH SOLO LINES ON THE RIGHT. THROUGHOUT, EVERYTHING HAD A DEEP SOUL--EVEN THOUGH, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE TUNES ON "BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK" WERE ALSO UP-TEMPO, IT WAS GREAT, GREAT PARTY MUSIC. THING IS, IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THIS LATENT R&B STREET CRED, SMITH WAS CLEARLY A FAN OF JAZZ'S UNIQUE SYNCOPATION (SO, NOTABLY, WAS LABEL-MATE LOU DONALDSON)--MEANING HE MOVED FREELY AMONG BOTH THE ROOTS AND BEBOP CROWDS."
                                                                                           1) BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK                                                                                            2) WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM                                                                                            3) MINOR CHANT                                                                                            4) MESSY BESSIE