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Thornel Schwartz
Thornel Schwartz Jr., or Thornal Schwartz Jr. (May 29, 1927 in Philadelphia – December 30, 1977 in Philadelphia) was an American jazz guitarist. He played electric guitar on the recordings of many Philadelphia jazz musicians, especially electronic organ players. Schwartz is known as Thornel on recording titles and in standard jazz reference works, but Gary W. Kennedy of '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'' notes that Schwartz spelled his own and his father's name "Thornal" on his social security application.Gary W. Kennedy, "Thornal Schwartz". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld. Schwartz attended the Landis Institute for piano, but became known as a jazz guitarist starting in the 1950s. He was Freddie Cole's guitarist early in the decade, then worked with Jimmy Smith and Johnny Hammond Smith later in the decade. In the 1960s he recorded with Larry Young (musician), Jimmy Forrest, Charles Earland, Byrdie Green, Sylvia Syms and extensively w ...
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ...
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Soul Cookin'
''Soul Cookin' '' is the sole album led by guitarist Thornel Schwartz, with saxophonist Bill Leslie, released in 1962 on Argo Records. Reception Flophouse magazine noted: "A proficient blues player who talks the bop language without really, like better guitar players, stretching long lines over the familiar changes, Schwartz accompanies his short clusters of prickly, staccato notes with driving octave playing. The blues tunes on ''Soul Cookin’'' benefit from Schwartz’ more crude than refined approach ... His peculiar, overdriven tone might get on your sleeve, yet gives that extra edge and is instantly recognizable".Flophouse magazine review
accessed November 20, 2018


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# "Soul Cookin'" (Esmond Edwards) – 4:25 # "

Respect (Jimmy Smith Album)
''Respect'' is a 1967 album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith. On the ''Billboard'' albums chart, ''Respect'' peaked at number 60 on the Billboard 200, at 3 on the top R&B albums chart and at 5 on the top Jazz albums chart. Reception ''Billboard'' magazine chose ''Respect'' as one of their 'Jazz Spotlight' albums for their 30 September 1967 issue and commented that: AllMusic's review by Scott Yanow stated that Smith: Track listing # "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) – 6:30 # "Respect" (Otis Redding) – 2:12 # "Funky Broadway" ( Arlester "Dyke" Christian) – 6:39 # "T-Bone Steak" ( Jimmy Smith) – 7:24 # " Get Out of My Life Woman" (Allen Toussaint) – 8:50 Personnel Musicians * Jimmy Smith – organ * Eric Gale – guitar * Thornel Schwartz – guitar * Bob Bushnell – double bass * Ron Carter – double bass * Bernard "Pretty" Purdie – drums * Grady Tate – drums Technical * Creed Taylor – producer * Rudy Van Gelder – engineer * Val Valentin †...
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At Club Baby Grand
''At Club Baby Grand'' is a live album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith, recorded at Club "Baby Grand" in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1956 and released in two volumes on the Blue Note label.Blue Note discography
accessed November 29, 2010


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The review by Steve Leggett states:


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Volume One

# ''Introduction by Mitch Thomas'' – 0:59 # "" ( Bernie, ...
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The Incredible Jimmy Smith At The Organ
''The Incredible Jimmy Smith'' (subtitled ''Jimmy Smith at the Organ Vol. 3'') is the third album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1956 and released on the Blue Note label.Blue Note discography
accessed October 5, 2010
The album was rereleased on CD combined with Smith's previous two LP's '' A New Sound... A New Star...'' and '' A New Sound A New Star: Jimmy Smith at the Organ Volume 2''.


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Jimmy Smith At The Organ Volume 2
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Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derived its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz around 1947. From there, Blue Note grew to become one of the most prolific, influential and respected jazz labels of the mid-20th century, noted for its role in facilitating the development of hard bop, post-bop and avant-garde jazz, as well as for its iconic modernism, modernist art direction. History Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the "hard bop" style of jazz (mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul music, soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel music, gospel), but also recorded essential albums in the avant-garde and Free Jazz, free styles of jazz. Horace Silver, Jimm ...
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A New Sound
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey É‘. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ...
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Groove Merchant
Groove Merchant was an American jazz and R&B record label during the 1970s. It was run by producer Sonny Lester and distributed by Pickwick Records. Notable artists included Chick Corea, O'Donel Levy, Buddy Rich, Jimmy McGriff, Lonnie Smith and Lionel Hampton. Lester would later close Groove Merchant and restructure it as Lester Radio Corporation, or LRC; TK Records were distributors for a period. Lester still retains the rights to the Groove Merchant/LRC back catalog and independently distributes them on compact disc. Discography 500 Series The Groove Merchant 500 Series consisted of 34 albums released between 1971 and 1974.Jazzlists: Groove Merchant Records 500 Series
accessed March 26, 2018


2200 Series

The 2200 Series, released in 1972, consisted o ...
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Let's Stay Together (Jimmy McGriff Album)
''Let's Stay Together'' is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1966 and 1972 and released on the Groove Merchant label.Jazzlists: Groove Merchant Records 500 Series
accessed April 4, 2018


Reception

's Stephen Cook said: "''Let's Stay Together'' is a great set by one of the masters of the Hammond B-3 organ sound". On Douglas Payne noted "The music, unfortunately, isn't terribly memorable. But the R&B covers benefit by McGr ...
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The Worm (album)
''The Worm'' is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1968 and originally released on the Solid State label.Payne, D.Solid State Records discographyaccessed April 14, 2015Payne, D.accessed April 14, 2015 Reception The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek stated "''The Worm'' is a monster album through and through. Not only is it a revelatory example of McGriff on the wild, it marks one of the first places where the new funky urban soul met jazz and blues and evolved into jazz-funk". Track listing ''All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except as indicated'' # "The Worm" (Sonny Lester, Jimmy McGriff, Fats Theus) - 3:20 # "Keep Loose" - 5:56 # "Heavyweight" - 6:52 # "Think" (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) - 3:16 # "Lock It Up" (Kenny Burrell) - 5:13 # " Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup) - 4:31 # "Blue Juice" - 4:59 # "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:46 Personnel *Jimmy McGriff - organ *Blue Mitchell - trumpet *Danny Turner - alto sax ...
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I've Got A New Woman
''I've Got a New Woman'' is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in late 1967 and originally released on the Solid State label.Payne, D.Sonny Lester discographyaccessed April 14, 2015Payne, D.accessed April 17, 2015
accessed April 17, 2015


Reception

rated the album 3 stars out of 5.Allmusic listing
accessed April 14, 2015


Track listing

''All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except as indicated'' # "