Listener Reviews & Comments
The music of Jimmy Smith sampled on this CD (as well as that of his contemporaries) has been so widely influential in the years since, that it can be easy to miss the originality these recordings exhibited in their time. The contemporary listener may find some of these tracks downright corny, since Jimmy's grooves have been exploited to the point of being turned into cliches. After a track or two, though, the smooth, percolating rhythms become irresistible. Jimmy's organ and his turn-on-a-dime bands seem to be codifying the riffs that become the abc's of funk. That's why you'll hear this sound in everything from Sinatra to Chuck Brown to Cibo Matto.
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