Smith, Jimmy | 5 Original Albums | 5CD

Jimmy Smith was an American jazz keyboardist, born on 8 December 1928 in Norristown, Philadelphia, who performed on the Hammond B-3 electric organ and helped to popularise the instrument greatly. Smith died in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2005, and in that year received the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honour that a US jazz musician can attain.

This five-disc box set collects five early Jimmy Smith albums for Blue Note, released in Europe on 16 March 2018. It includes Home Cookin' (1959) and Softly as a Summer Breeze (1965), along with three other albums dated between 1960 and 1963.

Track List

Disc 1

1. See See Rider
2. Sugar Hill
3. I Got a Woman
4. Messin' Around
5. Gracie
6. Come On Baby
7. Motorin' Along

Disc 2

1. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
2. Makin' Whoopee
3. A Night in Tunisia
4. Sonnymoon for Two
5. Mack the Knife
6. What's New
7. Alfredo

Disc 3

1. Midnight Special
2. A Subtle One
3. Jumpin' the Blues
4. Why Was I Born?
5. One O'clock Jump

Disc 4

1. Back at the Chicken Shack
2. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
3. Minor Chant
4. Messy Bessie

Disc 5

1. These Foolish Things
2. Hackensack
3. It Could Happen to You
4. Sometimes I'm Happy
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Home Cookin' (Aka One for Philly Joe)