> Can anyone reccommend a good Jimmy Smith album to get? Also, has anyone
> heard his new album "Damn"?
>
Have'nt heard the new album but I do have an old one I've permanently
borrowed from my fathers collection called Respect (Verve). It contains an
excellent soulful interpretation of Cannonball Adderly's Mercy Mercy
Mercy as well as covers of Respect and Funky Broadway, original composition
T-Bone Steak and the standout track Get Out Of My Life which contains the
type of verbal interjections in the middle of the funky soul jam which seems
to be popular with some of the new funky jazzers only now they use sampled
pieces for that 'original funky old dude' voice over. (ie. Ping Pongs
Goin' Downhill, O.M.U's Night Dance)
Carlos