Smith Jimmy | Midnight Special | 1LP

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.

Midnight Special is a single vinyl LP by Jimmy Smith, released on Blue Note in 2023 as a stereo reissue of a recording first released in 1961. The album was recorded at Van Gelder Studio on 25 April 1960, with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar and Donald Bailey on drums.

Track List

Side A

1. Midnight Special
2. A Subtle One

Side B

1. Jumpin' the Blues
2. Why Was I Born?
3. One O'clock Jump