Jimmy Smith - Straight Life (1961)

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Title: Straight Life
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Blue Note[0946 3 85192 2 5]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 50:18
Total Size: 338 MB(+3%) | 119 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. Straight Life (5:10)
02. Stuffy (5:09)
03. Star Dust (6:04)
04. Sweet Sue, Just You (4:53)
05. Minor Fare (5:40)
06. Swanee (2:29)
07. Jimmy's Blues (5:43)
08. Yes Sir, That's My Baby (5:00)
09. Here's To My Lady (4:56)
10. Minor Fare (alt tk) (5:15)
Jimmy Smith - Straight Life (1961)

personnel :

Jimmy Smith – organ
Quentin Warren – guitar
Donald Bailey – drums

The tracks that make up Straight Life had been sitting in the Blue Note vaults since they were recorded on June 22, 1961, representing the only recorded output that year by Jimmy Smith and his trio of the era, which included guitarist Quentin Warren and drummer Donald Bailey. Somehow these ten songs got lost in the shuffle between the 1960 Blue Note date Crazy! Baby and Smith's leap into the national spotlight with his first Verve release, Bashin', in 1962. The trio swings along on six standards and three originals "Straight Life," "Jimmy's Blues," and two versions of "Minor Fare." Although not in the same league as Midnight Special or Prayer Meetin', it's great to hear this long lost hard bop session from the master of the Hammond B-3.~ Al Campbell