Six Views of the Blues
1999 studio album by Jimmy Smith
Six Views of the Blues | ||||
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Studio album by Jimmy Smith | ||||
Released | 1999 | |||
Recorded | July 16, 1958 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 45:53 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
Jimmy Smith chronology | ||||
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Singles from Six Views of the Blues | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Six Views of the Blues is an album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith. It features performances recorded in 1958, but it wasn't released on the Blue Note label until 1999.[2] Originally, the single "The Swingin' Shepherd Blues" was released in 1958 as Blue Note 45–1711.[3]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3 stars, stating:
"this is great music that needs to be explored. Smith is still the master when it comes to slow blues on his instrument".[1]
Track listing
- All compositions by Jimmy Smith except as indicated
- "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 8:38
- "The Swingin' Shepherd Blues" (Moe Koffman) – 3:55
- "Blues No. 1" – 6:25
- "Blues No. 3" – 7:10
- "Blues No. 4" – 10:45
- "Blues No. 2" – 9:00
- Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on July 16, 1958
Personnel
Musicians
- Jimmy Smith – organ
- Cecil Payne – baritone saxophone
- Kenny Burrell – guitar
- Donald Bailey – drums (tracks 4–6),
- Art Blakey – drums (tracks 1–3)
Technical
References
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Jimmy Smith
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
albums
- A New Sound... A New Star... Volume 1 (1956)
- A New Sound A New Star: Jimmy Smith at the Organ Volume 2 (1956)
- The Incredible Jimmy Smith at the Organ (1956)
- At Club Baby Grand (1956)
- A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957)
- A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (1957)
- The Sounds of Jimmy Smith (1957)
- Plays Pretty Just for You (1957)
- Jimmy Smith Trio + LD (1957)
- Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise (1957)
- House Party (1958)
- The Sermon (1958)
- Softly as a Summer Breeze (1958)
- Cool Blues (1958)
- Six Views of the Blues (1958)
- Home Cookin' (1958–59)
- Crazy! Baby (1960)
- Open House (1960)
- Plain Talk (1960)
- Midnight Special (1960)
- Back at the Chicken Shack (1960)
- Straight Life (1961)
- Plays Fats Waller (1962)
- I'm Movin' On (1963)
- Bucket! (1963)
- Rockin' the Boat (1963)
- Prayer Meetin' (with Stanley Turrentine, 1963)
- One Night with Blue Note (1985)
albums
- Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (1962)
- Hobo Flats (1963)
- Any Number Can Win (1963)
- Blue Bash! (with Kenny Burrell, 1963)
- The Cat (1964)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964)
- Christmas '64 (1964)
- Monster (1965)
- Organ Grinder Swing (1965)
- Got My Mojo Workin' (1966)
- Hoochie Coochie Man (1966)
- Peter & the Wolf (1966)
- Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (with Wes Montgomery, 1966)
- Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes (1966)
- Respect (1967)
- The Boss (1968)
- Groove Drops (1970)
- The Other Side of Jimmy Smith (1970)
- Root Down (1972)
- Bluesmith (1972)
- Damn! (1995)
- Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams (1995)
- Dot Com Blues (2000)
other labels
- Black Smith (1974)
- The Original Jam Sessions 1969 (Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby, 1969)
- Smackwater Jack (Quincy Jones, 1971)
- Ellington Is Forever (Kenny Burrell, 1975)
- Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Kenny Burrell, 1975)
- Straight Ahead (Stanley Turrentine, 1984)
- L.A. Is My Lady (Frank Sinatra, 1984)
- Bad (Michael Jackson, 1987)
- Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994)