ben. Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Another master I'll never hear in person.... They better have some bad-*** church lady playin organ at this funeral... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guy Landau Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Very sad news. I planned to see him next month here in the Iridium Jazz club. I've seen him perform there last winter and he was unforgetable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jheis Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Sorry, I usually know the music, but not always the faces. Is that Ed Kelly, or has one of the other masters passed as well? James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Songer Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 I was at a Jimmy Smith show at Catalina's in Hollywood about ten years ago--it was a quartet with the late, great Teddy Edwards on tenor. Anyway, in the middle of the second set Smith started waxing about the decline of the B3 and that there weren't enough young guys coming up. Anyway, he called a kid up out of the audience who couldn't have been more than 12-13 years old and let him play "Back at the Chicken Shack" for about 5 minutes. Jimmy just stood there beaming and clapping his hands. I heard him live about a dozen times over the past 25 years and he was ALWAYS a gas. DAMN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 "Drinks! Drinks for all my friends!" Line exclaimed while Smith's "The Sermon" played in the sound track to "Bar Fly." Old friends from Detroit told tales of Smith at the Bluebird wringing wet, lost in the ecstacy of jazz performance taking the towel from around his neck and at the height of frenzy snapping it at the keyboard, then jumping back on board like James Bond getting behind the wheel of a moving boat in some crazy scene on the Detroit River to light up a blues run down the length of the keys, then grabbing that Ivory beast by the throat, making it stand up and exclaim like a preacher saving the world from the doors of hell, all the while kickin' the bass and all that Motor City grime right down the bar room drain..... Now comes the quiet. ...If that quote doesn't send chills up your spine and put a tear in your eye you have no heart for music at all. Mr Smith was one of the greats, an extraordinary showman with more soul than a roomfull of James Browns. And the sounds he would extract from that great electronic beast, sweating profusely all the time. "Lost in the ecstacy of jazz performance" is such a truism here. The only other man I've seen come close to mastering the mighty B3 would be Jon Lord from Deep Purple, but even he seems elementary compared to Smith. Rest, rest rest in peace sweet prince. We will spin your vinyl tonight for sure. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomac Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Along with several other Incredible LPs, I have five copies of Fourmost. The thought of not having a clean copy of that date, at my immediate disposal, is way too negative. I recall Allan saying that Jimmy Smith was a National Treasure. No argument from me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-MAN Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Hammond B3 and Jimmy Smith - he owned that. DM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 "The Cat" of cats. I started this jazz thing way too late in life. Another whose work I admire so much who I'll never get to see in person. I have about 15 of his albums and love them all. A sad day indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmikid Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Indeed a great loss! To be honest I didn't even know that he was still alive. Love his work! Got acquainted with him through the blue note double albums best of from the 70's, bought many albums since. May he be played forever, he will be by me. tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivadselim Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 awwwww................................ i saw him at the catalina (more recently than 10 years ago) as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Jimmy Smith, George Wright, Virgil Fox, E. Power Biggs...all great organists from their respected ilk that I'll never get to see perform live ever again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synthfreek Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Sorry 'bout the other post. That's what I get when I work too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Ending my night with "Bucket!" featuring The Incredible Jimmy Smith. His version of Careless Love could put a lump in your throat any ordinary evening. Tonight however............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomac Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Earlier I listened to "Fourmost". Midnight Special and Summertime were INCREDIBLE, as always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoriated_Tiger Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 NPR here in S. Fl (WLRN, 91.3) played non-stop Jimmy Smith last night from 8:15 till midnight. (Evening Jazz with Glenn Paise, it's weeknight show local to this station.) Now I remember why I still have a tuner in my rig.. That smith is gone saddens me. I only discovered his music about 4 years ago, and immediately fell in love with it. I even got his Dot Com Blues he put out a couple of years ago, and a few LPs of his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoriated_Tiger Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Oh bloody 'ell with the dupes... this one was my bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Yoshi's will pay tribute to Jimmy Smith next week. Wish I could be there. Although Jimmy has joined up with that greater gig in the sky, he left us some new music, a collaboration with Joey DeFrancesco, Legacy, is scheduled for release on 15FEB. . should be worth checking out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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