Groovin' At Smalls' Paradise (Volume 1) (Vinyl LP) JazzBlue Note co founder Francis Wolff once recalled: "I first heard Jimmy Smith at Smalls' Paradise in January of 1956. It was his first gig in New York. He was a stunning sight. A man in convulsions, face contorted, crouched over in apparent agony, his fingers flying, his feet dancing over the pedals. The air was filled with waves of sound I had never heard before." After discovering Smith, Alfred Lion recorded the Hammond B3 organ virtuoso no less than
and hooks galore
Now It's Time For Cuando Brilla La Luna By Morenas With The Emotional Versions By Fanrice And Mr
" the stunning ballad "Shirl
Jimmy Heath and Corea are prime hard bop that are filled with enthusiastic ensembles and solos that are direct and exciting
'hookier' songs with occasionally intelligible lyrics
These tracks originally released as a companion piece to the DVD package A Skin
credited as "Penguin" but actually members of Garland Jeffreys' band
The title of Thomas's third album for Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman referenced Oliver Nelson's classic 1961 LP The Blues and the Abstract Truth
"Kirtan" means "narrating
best appreciated as a whole in the old-fashioned sense of an album - which makes perfect sense when you know midlake linchpin Tim Smith's fondness for the look and feel of past times
keeping only the slamming guitaristry of Randy Ford on top with him
Kas Product (So Young but so Cold
