Jimmy Smith- Midnight Special (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)Label: Blue Note Reissued 9 15 2023, Originally released 1961 It's a testament to Jimmy Smith's volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack in a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums. Smith had been a self taught pianist before

Original Sin

Everybody Loves You

Recycled Air

Harvey and Adams to create what AllMusic described as “another winner… rough around the edges and jagged”

which includes spoken passages of Oscar Wilde's poem 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Too Late: Frozen

I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional

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imagination

self-improvement and world peace

and zero instrumentals

You Can Have It All