Standards

Jimmy Smith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B000005GVH
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,894 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Setting The "Standards" For Organ, March 28, 2001

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Michael B. Richman (Portland, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Standards (Audio CD)

Jimmy Smith's "Standards" album is a delightful look at the greatest of all jazz organists in a relaxed trio setting. Recorded over three sessions from 1957-59, "Standards" is not a greatest hits type collection. If anything it should be viewed as a companion piece to "Home Cookin" (much like "The Sermon" and "House Party" go together) as both CDs derive most of their material from 7/15/58 and 5/24/59 sessions. Like so many jazz releases, all the upbeat numbers from the recording dates went to one title ("Home Cookin") and all the contemplative ballads to another (originally on vinyl as "On The Sunny Side" and now on CD as "Standards", as it should be noted that the last half of "Standards" had never previously been issued.) If you want one of those barnburner Jimmy Smith discs with lots of soulful, fiery grooves, then you may have come to the wrong place. But if you want an album of smooth (the true meaning of the word), thoughtful jazz performed impeccably by the masterful trio of Kenny Burrell, Donald Bailey and Jimmy Smith, then you are in for a treat.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars alot of kenny burrell and not too much jimmy, January 19, 2000

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macfawlty "macfawlty" (potomac, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Standards (Audio CD)

Kenny Burrell is the leader on this title and Jimmy's playing is very much in the background for almost all of this recording. It is a good guitar album, but not so much a Jimmy title.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jimmy Smith Standards, January 1, 2011

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Vladimir Gaar - See all my reviews

This review is from: Standards (Audio CD)

Great experience, I haven't drunk anything and I am completely out of this world... Incredible album, for organ and guitar fans.. It can open your mind, just collaborate... and flow..