Jimmy Smith | A Date With Jimmy Smith Volume One | LP

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.

A Date With Jimmy Smith, Volume One is a single-disc mono vinyl LP reissue, remastered, released on December 10, 2021 by Rat Pack Records in France, limited to 1,000 copies. The release is unofficial. Jimmy Smith plays organ, with Lou Donaldson on alto saxophone, Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Donald Byrd on trumpet, Eddie McFadden on guitar, and Art Blakey and Donald Bailey on drums. The release is in the cool jazz and bop styles.

Track List

Side A

1. Falling in Love With Love
2. How High the Moon

Side B

1. Funk's Oats