Title: Ready 'n' Able Artist: Jimmy Smith Release Date: 7/16/2007 Label: Jazz Hour Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 8712177051885, 871217705188 Genre: Jazz Styles: Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop, Jazz Blues Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Earthy, Energetic, Exuberant, Gritty, Gutsy, Joyous, Laid-Back/Mellow, Organic, Party/Celebratory, Passionate, Playful, Boisterous, Bravado, Confident, Dramatic, Earnest, Effervescent, Freewheeling, Fun, Greasy, Literate, Lively, Rambunctious, Rousing, Searching, Slick, Sophisticated, Sprawling, Stately, Street-Smart, Uplifting, Urgent, Warm, Witty, Wry Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD Jazz Hour 73643 2007 CD Jazz Hour 73643

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Jimmy Smith single-handedly reinvented the Hammond organ in a modern jazz setting, and given the many Hammond players who have followed in his wake, most of them working from the same template that Smith established way back in the early '50s, it is easy to forget how amazingly brilliant he was on his chosen instrument, as innovative in his own way as Charlie Parker was on sax or Thelonious Monk on piano. Cherry-picking tracks from Smith's first three albums with Blue Note, this set finds Smith on organ (he adds bass with the foot pedals as well), Thornel Schwartz on electric guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums (Bay Perry plays drums on a few of the tracks here, including Horace Silver's "The Preacher"). The version of Thelonious Monk's "Well, You Needn't" is revelatory, retaining the original composition's skewed, angular phrasing but adding in a thick, heavy Delta feel that makes the overall tone of the piece seem a little less anxious. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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