Jimmy Smith

[Nefertiti]

I found this on the dimeadozen site under a bootleg of Jimmy Smith. Whoever posted it put this description. For whatever reason I just found it hysterical and started cracking up. Thought I'd share it :


I debated if I should seed this. It isn't complete. This is really only for the completist, not for everyone.
Had it been another artists I would most likely not have seeded it. My unit fell with 2 tunes to go in the set and it shut off.
But it is JIMMY O. SMITH!
During the show Jimmy Smith wanted to kick my *** for smiling at him.
I was right up against the stage. He saw me smiling at him and said "what you smiling at?"
"I'll come down there and kick your ***." My wife leaned over and said to me, "Is he talking to you?"
I told her yes. He was still staring at me, and yelled, "I'll kick your bitch's *** too."
Too bad I didn't catch it on my MD. After that he turned to Melvin Sparks and told him to
play something. Melvin asked him what he wanted him to play. Jimmy yelled, "play anything, why the hell do I pay you?"
Melvin was embarrassed but proceeded to play a solo guitar number.
He could hardly walk at this point. It's a master soon to check out of this world.
R.I.P., even though you wanted to kick my ***. And thanks for the music you left us with.

That made my night.:D

[gary]

Thanks for sharing.

(Questions about Jimmy ~O~ Smith deleted) I had to read it five times and I still don't understand it all. What kind of language is that? Is that hilbilly, inner city, what? I just don't know.

[cleger]

Second, who is Jimmy O. Smith?



Biography by Ron Wynn and Bob Porter
Jimmy Smith ruled the Hammond organ in the '50s and '60s. He revolutionized the instrument, showing it could be creatively used in a jazz context and popularized in the process. His Blue Note sessions from 1956 to 1963 were extremely influential and many, like 1960's Back at the Chicken Shack and 1958 's The Sermon, are classics. Smith turned the organ into almost an ensemble itself. He provided walking bass lines with his feet, left hand chordal accompaniment, solo lines in the right, and a booming, funky presence that punctuated every song, particularly the up-tempo cuts. Smith turned the fusion of R&B, blues, and gospel influences with bebop references and devices into a jubilant, attractive sound that many others immediately absorbed before following in his footsteps. Smith initially learned piano both from his parents and on his own. He attended the Hamilton School of Music in 1948, and Ornstein School of Music in 1949 and 1950 in Philadelphia. Smith began playing the Hammond in 1951, and soon earned a great reputation that followed him to New York, where he debuted at the Café Bohemia. A Birdland date and 1957 Newport Jazz Festival appearance launched Smith's career. His Blue Note recordings included both trio recordings and superb collaborations with Kenny Burrell, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Tina Brooks, Jackie McLean, Ike Quebec, and Stanley Turrentine, among others. Smith scored more hit albums on Verve from 1963 to 1972, many of them featuring big bands and using fine arrangements from Oliver Nelson. These included the excellent Walk on the Wild Side and Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo, a collaboration with guitarist Wes Montgomery. His '70s output was quite spotty, though Smith didn't stop touring, visiting Israel and Europe in 1974 and 1975. He and his wife opened a club in Los Angeles in the mid-'70s. Smith resumed touring in the early '80s and continued wowing audiences around the world. He re-signed with Blue Note in 1985, and has done more representative dates for them and Milestone in the '90s. After a five-year layoff, Smith returned in early 2001 with the blues projects Fourmost Return and Dot Com Blues. He remained a fixture in both small jazz clubs and large festivals until his untimely passing in February of 2005.

[gary]

Thanks for the post, Cleger, I appreciate it. I am, though, quite aquainted with Jimmy Smith, I've just never..ever...seen his name in print as Jimmy ~O~ Smith and that's what threw me. Sorry you went to the extra work. The only Jimmy O Smith I even remotely know anything about is a race care driver who, I suppose, could've had a band. Melvin Sparks should've been the give away.

So no one else wastes their time, I'm eliminating some of my post above.

I'm still curious about the language. Anyone?

[Nefertiti]

What's strange about the language? I put *** in place of a 3 letter word I didn't think should be posted although maybe it's ok. Maybe they don't talk like that in Germany. I've heard that phrase alot in the US.

[JMac]

...I debated if I should seed this. It isn't complete. This is really only for the completist, not for everyone.
Had it been another artists I would most likely not have seeded it. ... Mebbe dis part?

BTW gary - what did Jimmy O. Smith race??

[Gandalfe]

Had it been another artists I would most likely not have seeded it. seeded it? Does he mean seen?

My unit fell with 2 tunes to go in the set and it shut off. My unit? Is that an instrument, part of a body, or something else? Does the poster mean fell or failed?

Too bad I didn't catch it on my MD. MD?

The language this poster uses is certainly not English. Maybe it's some backwater dialect of the American language. I can see why it is hard to parse.

[jazzbluescat]

...During the show Jimmy Smith wanted to kick my *** for smiling at him.....
Wow, if true that's shoots down the image I had of him. I always pictured him as being more laid back, a devil my care kind of guy.

[Nefertiti]

Sorry. MD is a recording device. His fell to the floor and stopped working. To seed is to put the recording out on the internet for other people to download. I see so many of these that I forgot that some people might not know the terminology.

[gary]

Sorry. MD is a recording device. His fell to the floor and stopped working. To seed is to put the recording out on the internet for other people to download. I see so many of these that I forgot that some people might not know the terminology.Thanks for clearing that up. I guess the above posters clarified what I meant when I said I didn't understand it. One last definition to close the loop: "This is really only for the completist, not for everyone." What is a completist? Thanks.

BTW gary - what did Jimmy O. Smith race??Stock cars. Comes from my trailer park days, I suppose.

[JMac]

Stock cars. Comes from my trailer park days, I suppose.Thanks - I've been to a couple of those myself (trailer parks and stock car races). Now that you live in the land of the freres Schumacher - are you still a race fan?

Nefertiti- thanks for the clarification. I too, would of thought JS to be a little more laid back. Who knows what else the bootlegging yahoo may have done to cheese him off?

[Alto Giant]

What's strange about the language? I put *** in place of a 3 letter word I didn't think should be posted although maybe it's ok. Maybe they don't talk like that in Germany. I've heard that phrase alot in the US.

Hey man we use much more bad words like "***" in Germany...8-)

[gary]

- are you still a race fan?Not avid, JMac.Haven't seen any stock car races here-don't know if there are any. What I used to love about them were the crashes and fights. Just the sensitive, feminine side of me coming out, I guess. :flower:

[jazzbluescat]

Thanks - .....Nefertiti- thanks for the clarification. I too, would of thought JS to be a little more laid back. Who knows what else the bootlegging yahoo may have done to cheese him off?

How did you surmise bootlegging?[If so, I can understands JS's hostility.

[JMac]

Um- the original post.....I found this on the dimeadozen site under a bootleg of Jimmy Smith. Whoever posted it put this description. For whatever reason I just found it hysterical and started cracking up. Thought I'd share it :...

[jazzbluescat]

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[Jaybird]

Gary, I know this may be a little late because I only recently joined, but to answer your question about what a completist is - A completist is somebody who has to have every available recording by a certain artist, no matter how well they played or how crappy the sound quality might be.

[gary]

Thanks Jbird. Now I feel complete. :D

[alsdiego]

What's a "dimeadozen"? Is that a rare species of dinosaur? Related to a Protozoan? What? This reminds me of the great line by the kindly old lady in "Airplane": "Excuse me, perhaps I can be of assistance. I speak jive."