At Club "Baby Grand" Wilmington, Delaware
1956 live album by the Incredible Jimmy Smith
At Club "Baby Grand" Wilmington, Delaware | ||||
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Released | 1956 | |||
Recorded | August 4, 1956 | |||
Venue | Club Baby Grand Wilmington, DE | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 41:26 (Vol. 1) 40:24 (Vol. 2) | |||
Label | Blue Note BLP 1528 (Vol. 1) BLP 1529 (Vol. 2) | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
Jimmy Smith chronology | ||||
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Singles from At Club "Baby Grand" | ||||
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At Club "Baby Grand" Wilmington, Delaware, Vols. 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related live albums by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith recorded at Club "Baby Grand" in Wilmington, Delaware on August 4, 1956 and released on Blue Note later that year.[1]
Reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [3] |
The AllMusic review by Steve Leggett states, "It's all Jimmy Smith in full flight, bubbling over with cascading notes and breathless detours, and if his studio work is generally more structured and considered (but only a little more so), this set shows him in what was his natural habitat, astounding an audience in a small club. Bailey keeps up with things and Schwartz gets a word in now and then, but this is Smith's show all the way."[2]
Track listing
At Club "Baby Grand" Wilmington, Delaware, Vol. 1
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Introduction by Mitch Thomas" | 0:59 | |
2. | "Sweet Georgia Brown" | Bernie, Casey, Pinkard | 9:33 |
3. | "Where or When" | Hart, Rodgers | 9:17 |
At Club "Baby Grand" Wilmington, Delaware, Vol. 2
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Caravan" | Ellington, Mills, Tizol | 10:18 |
2. | "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" | Fain, Webster | 10:46 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Get Happy" | Arlen, Koehler | 7:27 |
2. | "It's All Right with Me" | Porter | 11:53 |
Personnel
Musicians
- Jimmy Smith – organ
- Thornel Schwartz – guitar
- Donald Bailey – drums
Technical personnel
- Alfred Lion – producer
- Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer
- Reid Miles – design
- Francis Wolff – photography
- Leonard Feather – liner notes
References
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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)