Tag Archives: Jimmy Smith
MEETIN’ JIMMY SMITH
Growing up in a musical family, young Jimmy Smith learned piano and later, double bass. When he switched to organ in the mid-1950s after hearing Wild Bill Davis, Jimmy combined the two instrumental skills, utilising the bass pedals of his Hammond B3 to fill out the lower end of his sound. While this made the […]
1972 JAZZ — THE TOP 10
10 THE CRUSADERS — 1 Unlike Miles, The Jazz Crusaders and others in the jazz community, I was not listening to Sly and the Family Stone in the early 1970s. Fact is, I wasn’t really listening to anything other than Top 40 AM radio station 3XY on my transistor. So when, much later, I stumbled […]
JAZZ DAY
A Mundane Day In The Life … Saved by its Jazz Soundtrack Last night I drank too much red wine. It was the wine’s fault, not mine. Rich and deep, it warmed my veins and got inside my head. This morning its oak and tannins were hanging around my system in a fuzzy sand-papery way […]
vinylconnection.com.au 