Sundown Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 I know Jimmy Smith was a jazz Hammond God, but I never knew about this side of his career. Give up the Booty? Really? [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1hYxFXYHRA Quote Sundown Working on: The Jupiter Bluff; Driven Away Main axes: Kawai MP11 and Kurz PC361 DAW Platform: Cubase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 To be fair, the Hammond sound was considered corny and dated by that time. Gotta try to make some money somehow. It's a pretty funky track, really. Quote Keep it greazy! B3tles - Soul Jazz THEO - Prog Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 I had that album. Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gd1 Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 To be fair, the Hammond sound was considered corny and dated by that time. Gotta try to make some money somehow. It's a pretty funky track, really. I agree, many of us were dumping our big old heavy dated sounding organs at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I had that album. #me too He had an absolute babe sitting on his B3 on the cover. Quote Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuelBLupowitz Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I'm going to imagine this as the soundtrack to my mundane tasks today. Quote Samuel B. Lupowitz Musician. Songwriter. Food Enthusiast. Bad Pun Aficionado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenWaB3 Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Not rippin' off H.H. & Headhunters too much, is they??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggypants Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Herb is on Piano. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundown Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 Is that Jimmy on vocals? It kind of sounds like his voice (or his voice as I know it from in between songs, etc). Quote Sundown Working on: The Jupiter Bluff; Driven Away Main axes: Kawai MP11 and Kurz PC361 DAW Platform: Cubase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piktor Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Oh, for sure that is JS on vocals. That's the same vocal sound that you can find on Smith's version of "Got My Mojo Working". (When I was a teenager, for some reason, my younger sister had Smith's 45 of that recording. I could not convince her to give it to me.) As Jim A alluded, there were a number of recordings that came out in the disco-post disco period that featured legit jazz organists playing commercial funk mysic. I owned and discarded a Larry Young album like that. Terrible lyrics and everything: "Space ball, ya'll can come!" Check out some of the stuff that Dr. Lonnie Smirh did at that time. It sounds pretty bad/dated compared to the great performances that he has recorded in the past 15 years. Fortunately, legit organ jazz returned in a much more artistic and varied way in the past 20 + years. (Thanks Joey D, et al. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Dam, Bill Champlin, Abe Laboriel, Lenny White, and Herbie Hancock. Credits Arranged By Carmen Twillie Arranged By [Music] Alan Silvestri, Eugene McDaniels Art Direction Mike Doud (2) Backing Vocals William Champlin*, Carmen Twillie, Vennette Gloud* Bass Abraham Laboriel Drums Lenny White Engineer Doug Rider Engineer [Assistant] Mike Beiriger, Robert Davenport (2), Steve Smith (19) Guitar Alan Silvestri Harmonica Stanley ("The Baron") Behrens* Organ, Synthesizer Jimmy Smith Percussion Steve Forman Photography By Antonin Kratochvil Piano Herbie Hancock Producer Eugene McDaniels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pa Gherkin Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Producer Eugene McDaniels is the same Gene McDaniels who had hits as a singer with 100 Pounds of Clay and Tower of Strength. He also wrote Compared To What and Roberta Flack's hit Feel Like Makin'' Love. His accomplishments in the music biz are impressive and numerous. Incredible roster of talent on this J.S. album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Bird Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Is Jimmy Smith playing an ARP Odyssey? Sounds like an ARP to me. But it could be an SEM based on it sounding like a BPF. Quote Yamaha MX49, Casio SK1/WK-7600, Korg Minilogue, Alesis SR-16, Casio CT-X3000, FL Studio, many VSTs, percussion, woodwinds, strings, and sound effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielo Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 I had that album. "Had". It doesn't sound bad. Cheesy, though. The "dated" Hammond sound. Not hot anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delaware Dave Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 One of those songs is an Earth Wind and Fire cover song (Can't Hide Love). Quote 57 Hammond B3; 69 Hammond L100P; 68 Leslie 122; Kurzweil Forte7 & PC3; M-Audio Code 61; Voce V5+; Neo Vent; EV ELX112P; GSI Gemini & Burn Delaware Dave Exit93band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucktronix Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 It's the 70's. Jazz organ was considered passe during then. Gotta make the moolah! [video:youtube] Quote Kronos 88 Platinum, Yamaha YC88, Subsequent 37, Korg CX3, Hydrasynth 49-key, Nord Electro 5D 73, QSC K8.2, Lester K Me & The Boyz Chris Beard Band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LX88 Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Jimmy always had an ear toward commerciality. He sang on many tracks like " Got My Mojo Workin', "Hi Heel Sneakers", "Boom Boom" etc. In the European documentary ( on Youtube) done in 1965, it shows Jimmy driving his car and listening to the radio. The track he is listening to was " No Matter What Shape" by the T -Bones ( aka the Wrecking Crew). It's pretty obvious Jimmy was checking out AM radio extensively. I recently obtained a copy of the Dot Come Blues CD that Jimmy did in the later part of his career and it's one of my favorite recordings by him. Jimmy does not sing on these recordings - rather he leaves that to Dr. John, Taj Mahal, Etta James and B.B. King. Pretty impressive line up there! And for the most part, it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTeechur Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 That song is about 5 minutes too long. Quote Muzikteechur is Lonnie, in Kittery, Maine. HS music teacher: Concert Band, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Chorus, Music Theory, AP Music Theory, History of Rock, Musical Theatre, Piano, Guitar, Drama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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