Plays Pretty Just for You
1957 studio album by Jimmy Smith at the Organ
Plays Pretty Just for You | ||||
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Studio album by Jimmy Smith at the Organ | ||||
Released | 1957 | |||
Recorded | May 8, 1957 | |||
Studio | Manhattan Towers, NYC | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 41:39 | |||
Label | Blue Note BLP 1563 | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
Jimmy Smith chronology | ||||
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Singles from Plays Pretty Just for You | ||||
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Plays Pretty Just for You is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith recorded on May 8, 1957 and released on Blue Note later that year.[1]
Reception
The AllMusic review awarded the album 3 stars.[2]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Track listing
Side 1
- "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 5:44
- "The Jitterbug Waltz" (Fats Waller) – 4:57
- "East of the Sun" (Brooks Bowman) – 6:06
- "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 4:24
Side 2
- "Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)" (Val Burton, Will Jason) – 5:29
- "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 4:29
- "I Can't Get Started" (Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:48
- "Old Devil Moon" (E. Y. Harburg, Burton Lane) – 5:42
Personnel
Musicians
- Jimmy Smith – organ
- Eddie McFadden – guitar
- Donald Bailey – drums
Technical personnel
- Alfred Lion – producer
- Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer
- Tom Hannan – design
- Francis Wolff – photography
- Leonard Feather – liner notes
References
- ^ Blue Note discography accessed November 25, 2010
- ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed November 25, 2010
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Jimmy Smith
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
albums
- A New Sound... A New Star... Volume 1 (1956)
- A New Sound A New Star: Jimmy Smith at the Organ Volume 2 (1956)
- The Incredible Jimmy Smith at the Organ (1956)
- At Club Baby Grand (1956)
- A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957)
- A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (1957)
- The Sounds of Jimmy Smith (1957)
- Plays Pretty Just for You (1957)
- Jimmy Smith Trio + LD (1957)
- Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise (1957)
- House Party (1958)
- The Sermon (1958)
- Softly as a Summer Breeze (1958)
- Cool Blues (1958)
- Six Views of the Blues (1958)
- Home Cookin' (1958–59)
- Crazy! Baby (1960)
- Open House (1960)
- Plain Talk (1960)
- Midnight Special (1960)
- Back at the Chicken Shack (1960)
- Straight Life (1961)
- Plays Fats Waller (1962)
- I'm Movin' On (1963)
- Bucket! (1963)
- Rockin' the Boat (1963)
- Prayer Meetin' (with Stanley Turrentine, 1963)
- One Night with Blue Note (1985)
albums
- Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (1962)
- Hobo Flats (1963)
- Any Number Can Win (1963)
- Blue Bash! (with Kenny Burrell, 1963)
- The Cat (1964)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964)
- Christmas '64 (1964)
- Monster (1965)
- Organ Grinder Swing (1965)
- Got My Mojo Workin' (1966)
- Hoochie Coochie Man (1966)
- Peter & the Wolf (1966)
- Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (with Wes Montgomery, 1966)
- Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes (1966)
- Respect (1967)
- The Boss (1968)
- Groove Drops (1970)
- The Other Side of Jimmy Smith (1970)
- Root Down (1972)
- Bluesmith (1972)
- Damn! (1995)
- Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams (1995)
- Dot Com Blues (2000)
other labels
- Black Smith (1974)
- The Original Jam Sessions 1969 (Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby, 1969)
- Smackwater Jack (Quincy Jones, 1971)
- Ellington Is Forever (Kenny Burrell, 1975)
- Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Kenny Burrell, 1975)
- Straight Ahead (Stanley Turrentine, 1984)
- L.A. Is My Lady (Frank Sinatra, 1984)
- Bad (Michael Jackson, 1987)
- Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994)