Softly as a Summer Breeze
1965 studio album by Jimmy Smith
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Studio album by Jimmy Smith | ||||
Released | 1965 | |||
Recorded | February 26, 1958 October 14, 1958 (bonus tracks) | |||
Studio | Manhattan Towers, New York Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ (bonus tracks) | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 49:32 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
Jimmy Smith chronology | ||||
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Softly as a Summer Breeze is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1958 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1965.[1] The album was rereleased on CD with four bonus tracks recorded at a later session.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating
"Softly As a Summer Breeze is one of Jimmy Smith's more obscure Blue Notes... Overall, this CD is not too essential, but it does fill in a few gaps."[2]
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Track listing
- "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 5:27
- "Hackensack" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:58
- "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 6:16
- "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 8:21
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:30
- "One for Philly Joe" [aka "Home Cookin'"] (Jimmy Smith) – 4:46
Bonus tracks on 1998 CD reissue
- "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 3:24
- "Ain't No Use" (Leroy Kirkland, Sidney Wyche) – 2:40
- "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 3:25
- "Ain't That Love" (Ray Charles) – 2:45
- Recorded at Manhattan Towers, New York, on February 26, 1958 (tracks 1–6) and at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on October 14, 1958 (tracks 7–10).
Personnel
Musicians
- Jimmy Smith – organ
- Kenny Burrell – guitar, (tracks 1–4)
- Eddie McFadden – guitar, (tracks 5 & 6)
- Ray Crawford – guitar, (tracks 7–10)
- Philly Joe Jones – drums, (tracks 1–4)
- Donald Bailey – drums, (tracks 5–10)
- Bill Henderson – vocals, (tracks 7–10)
Technical
- Alfred Lion – producer
- Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
- Reid Miles – design
- Jean-Pierre Leloir – photography
- Leonard Feather – liner notes
References
- ^ Blue Note discography accessed November 29, 2010
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed November 26, 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)