Jimmy Smith: Home Cookin’ (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) LP ETJS-2 ” “Santa Claus Is Coming

” “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Backing him on the date were both his quartet featuring pianist Russ Freeman and an expanded ensemble with Bud Shank on flute and strings arranged by Frank Campo

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Jimmy Smith: Home Cookin’ (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) LP ETJS-2 ” “Santa Claus Is ComingBlue Note, 1959 The Incredible Jimmy Smith was a self taught keyboard virtuoso who gave up the piano in 1954 in favor of the Hammond B3 organ, setting up shop in a warehouse in Philadelphia and woodshedding for a year before emerging with a revolutionary approach to the instrument that immediately caught the ear of Alfred Lion. The Blue Note founder recorded the B3 innovator as often as he could between 1956 1963 in a range of different settings and