''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
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label.
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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''.
Reception
The
Allmusic
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review by Steve Leggett awarded the album 4 stars calling it:
Track listing
:''All compositions by Jimmy Smith except as indicated''
# "Judo Mambo" – 5:31
# "
Willow Weep for Me
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Ann Ronell
Ann Ronell (née Rosenblatt; December 25, 1905 — December 25, 1993) was an American composer and lyricist. She was best known for the standards "Willow Weep for Me" (1932) and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" (1933).
Early life
Ronell was bor ...
) – 5:41
# "
Lover, Come Back to Me
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Oscar Hammerstein II
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Sigmund Romberg
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E ...
) – 6:42
# "
Well, You Needn't
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Thelonious Monk
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) – 6:23
# "Fiddlin' the Minors" – 5:08
# "
Autumn Leaves" (
Joseph Kosma
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Biography
Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Ákos. A maternal relative was the photographe ...
,
Johnny Mercer
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Jacques Prévert
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) – 4:43
# "
I Cover the Waterfront
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Based on the book, by Max Miller, a reporter for the San Die ...
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Johnny Green
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Edward Heyman
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Biogr ...
) – 3:38
Bonus tracks on 2005 CD reissue
#
"Jamey" – 6:00
# "My Funny Valentine
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" (Lorenz Hart
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, Richard Rodgers
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) – 6:20
# "I Can't Give You Anything But Love
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" (Dorothy Fields
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, Jimmy McHugh
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) – 4:48
# "Slightly Monkish" – 5:27
:*Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on June 17 (tracks 2, 6, 8 & 9) and June 18 (tracks 1, 3-5, 7, 10 & 11), 1956
Personnel
Musicians
* Jimmy Smith – organ
* Thornel Schwartz
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– guitar
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* Donald Bailey – drums
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Technical
* Alfred Lion
Alfred Lion (born Alfred Löw; April 21, 1908 – February 2, 1987), was an American record executive who co-founded the jazz record label Blue Note in 1939. Lion retired in 1967, having sold the company, after producing recordings by leading music ...
– producer
* Rudy Van Gelder
Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Theloni ...
– engineer
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* Reid Miles
Reid Miles (July 4, 1927 – February 2, 1993) was an American graphic designer and photographer best known for his work for Blue Note Records in the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
Reid Miles was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 4, 1927 but, fo ...
– cover design
* Francis Wolff
Francis Wolff (April 5, 1907 – March 8, 1971) was a record company executive, photographer and record producer. Wolff's skills, as an executive and a photographer, were important contributions to the success of the Blue Note record label.
Care ...
– photography
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* Leonard Feather
Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.
Biography
Feather was born in London, England, into an u ...
– liner notes
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Origin
Liner notes are desce ...
References
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Blue Note Records albums
Jimmy Smith (musician) albums
1956 albums
Albums produced by Alfred Lion
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio