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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 CD compiles Jimmy Smith s miraculous late-fifties recordings that took the jazz world by a storm. Smith refined and modernised jazz organ. His work defined what today remains the standard approach to the instrument. A decade ahead of schedule Jimmy Smith created the sound that would make the sixties swing.