JIMMY SMITH
EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD
Miles Davis, who was not usually moved to superlatives, was said to have described Jimmy Smith as 'The Eighth Wonder of the World', Certainly there's no dispute that Jimmy certainly is the first wonder of the jazz organ, This edition compiles Jimmy Smith's miraculous late-fifties recordings that took the jazz world by a storm, The Champ, After Hours, The Sermon; all of the classics of the first phase of Smith's career, This man was without peer, His creativity and original style put him in a class of his own and had a huge influence on Jazz organ players ever since. |