- Jimmy Smith Plays Fats Waller CD
- Artist: Jimmy Smith
- Release Date: Jan 1,1961
- Format: CD
- Record Label: Applause Records
- UPC: 016726441225
- Genre: Jazz
The incomparable organ of Jimmy Smith tackles the tunes of Fats Waller, six in all, including "Lulu's Back in Town," and "Honeysuckle Rose." Playing piano-style single-note lines on his Hammond B-3 organ, Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of the instrument in a jazz combo setting in the mid-'50s and early '60s, and this piano approach makes him a natural to adapt the piano tunes associated with Fats Waller to the B-3, which is what he did at the January 23, 1962, session that is represented here (Waller, by the way, was no stranger to the organ himself, and recorded several sides on the instrument).
Working with guitarist Quentin Warren and his longtime drummer Donald Bailey (who worked with Smith throughout his Blue Note years), Smith brings his amazing rapid runs to Waller standards "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose," and gives "Ain't She Sweet" a wonderfully warm and soulful groove. It's fairly typical Smith, who careens, bolts, stutters, glides, and flashes notes all over the place at a frequently breathless pace, doing what he always does, which is being Jimmy Smith at the organ. That's what you want, and that's what you get here.
Track Listing
1. Everybody Loves My Baby
2. Squeeze Me
3. Ain't She Sweet
4. Ain't Misbehavin'
5. Lulu's Back In Town
6. Honeysuckle Rose
7. I've Found A New Baby
This CD is in like new condition, and includes all inserts and jewel case.
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