Cool Blues [Bonus Track] by Jimmy Smith (Organ) (CD, 1958)

EMI

4988006895805

4050142185

Jimmy Smith (Organ), Tina Brooks, Lou Donaldson, Art Blakey

CD

1958

Cool Blues [Bonus Track]

Live

Jazz

Personnel includes: Jimmy Smith (organ); Lou Donaldson (alto saxophone); Tina Brooks (tenor saxophone); Eddie McFadden (guitar); Art Blakey, Donald Bailey (drums). Producer: Alfred Lion. Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna. Recorded live at Small's Paradise, New York, New York on April 7, 1958. Includes liner notes by Michael Cuscuna and Bob Blumenthal. All tracks have been digitally remastered. This is part of Blue Note Records "Rudy Van Gelder Editions" series.

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Q (May 2002, p.135) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...Smiths' soaring, convulsive sound is still the benchmark against which jazz organ playing is judged..." Down Beat (May 2002, p.60) - 4.5 out of 5 stars - "...[Smith] plays here like a maniac, like a man who has miraculously invented botha n instrument and himself, shrieking and skittering and laying down monstrous grooves..."

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