Home Cookin [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Jimmy Smith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B0002IQ9RS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,527 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soul Food, Chicken Grease, and Hammond B-3 soul, April 20, 2000

By 

Sean K Hur (New Brunswick, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Cookin (Audio CD)

Wow, now here's a good work for you hammond b-3 fans. The small 3 personal group that basically epitomizes the Jimmy Smith sound in his blue-note years are here. With the added tenor saxophone work of Percy France, you got a great combination of soul food for you ears! Like the title of the album, there is a great deal of blues entwined inside every track. Highlights on the album were immediately the really driving "I Got a Woman," a great Ray Charles standard that Kenny Burrell, another fine jazz guitarist really shines. There are points when it seems that this is more a blues-jazz group, there isn't much in terms of be-bop flashiness, which may turn off some arrogant jazz types. It seems that Jimmy Smith's greatest work isn't in the spitty organ leads he pumps, its the subtle organ bass lines that sound incredible. THERE IS NO BASS PLAYER IN HIS GROUP! Every track reveals a good blues sensibility that the hammond b-3 organ seems to lend itself too. Jimmy Smith's album here helps to bridge a great gap between the intellectual and heady jazz of the era with the low-down chicken house organ sounds... Incredible, and this album is one of his best!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cookin!, December 28, 2008

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A J Crockett "oz soul jazz fan" (australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Cookin (Audio CD)

If you are into Jimmy Smith, you will own this one...no doubt. If you are teetering on the edge, i rekon the fact it has Kenny Burrell on guitar should get it over the line! This comes from a period where Jimmy recorded some of his finest music, it is early and it is cooking! smooth, small band, soul jazz...the way we like it.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Home Cookin!!!!!!!, January 27, 2005

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Chris Covais - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Cookin (Audio CD)

Basically, this is a real down home swingin' blues album. Jimmy Smith could always get down and groovy into the blues as he does here. You wonder what the world would have lost if the Hammond B-3 was never invented. There clearly isn't an instrument better suited for Smith and his bluesy ideas.

Smith just has fun going up and down the scales, with ease and brilliance, then stopping where he likes it, to swing you down home.

Like many other albums I buy, the cover is what attracted me to the album. I love this cover! The top five Blue Note album covers would be Sonny Clark's Cool Struttin', Hank Mobley's Workout, Joe Henderson's Mode For Joe, Larry Young's Unity, and this one, by Jimmy Smith!

After putting in the cd, I relized this was going to be a cool blue session. Percy France is on tenor. He reminds me of Tina Brooks, in the fact that they didn't get that much recognition. Kenny Burrell, who's simplistic style fits well here. Donald Bailey, who is on practically every other Jimmy Smith Blue Note out there, doesn't solo as usual. Instead, provides a back bone for Percy, Smith, and Burrell to throw out their ideas.

One interesting thing about this album is the song, I Got A Women, the popular tune by Ray Charles. That tune cooks! Burrell helps out Smith on this one with the melody. The only other cover, besides See See Rider, Since I Fell For You, is quite good! Ramsey Lewis and Vince Guaraldi have been known to include these in their sets.

The tune Gracie, which Ira Gitler points out is not the wife of George Brown, but rather a sophisticated women! Come On Baby is all Kenny, and Apostrophe, the only France original, did not appear on the orginal issue on vinyl back in 1959.

Especially now with the bonus tracks, their is even more reason to get this cd. Including some alternate takes are brand new tunes never heard at all. They included Groanin' and Apostrophe.

France lays out some tracks here. Basically this is not a fireous album. This is cool blues, to put on at night and groove to. Home Cookin'!! Get your cookin' and groovin' done here!