{"id":6548,"date":"2016-07-26T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2016-07-26T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:23:14","slug":"jimmy-smith-chain-of-fools-pt1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6548","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Smith – Chain of Fools Pt1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Smith: The Master Wrestling With the Monster<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Jimmy Smith – Chain of Fools Pt1 MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was wandering through the hallways of the windmills of the caverns of my iPod and it occurred to me that we could all stand a dose of some midweek Hammond.<\/p>\n

Who better to whup a little B3 on us all that the elevated past master of the organ, the mighty Jimmy Smith.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smith is an interesting character in the annals of the Hammond \u2013 at least as far as organ 45 nuts like me go \u2013 because while he is the best known of the instruments proponents from the classic era, and recorded both as a straight ahead jazzer and a soul jazz\/funk guy, he hasn\u2019t ever really been my go-to guy for heavy, really greasy organ sides.<\/p>\n

This has a lot to do with the fact that while a master musician, Smith was also probably the most mainstream organist of his time, with long associations with both Blue Note and Verve records. He was prolific, and fairly good-selling, so his records pop up a lot more commonly than most of his contemporaries.<\/p>\n

He was also consistently an LP artist \u2013 thanks to his major label gigs \u2013 so he wasn\u2019t dependent on, or laying his best stuff down for, the 45RPM format (as opposed to a guy like Hank Marr<\/strong> who did some of his best stuff on the smaller discs).<\/p>\n

That said, he was no slouch, and when he wanted to he could dish out the grits and gravy with the best of them.<\/p>\n

One of my fave Smith 45s is his version of the Don Covay<\/strong> (and Aretha Franklin<\/strong>, naturally<\/em>) classic \u2018Chain of Fools\u2019 from his 1968 LP \u2018Stay Loose\u2019, on the cover of which he is inexplicably dressed in skydiving gear, and jumping up and down (though his previous album \u2018Respect\u2019 had him doing karate poses in a gi, so maybe it was in his contract).<\/p>\n

Featuring snappy, in the pocket drums by Grady Tate<\/strong> and some very tasty guitar from a moonlighting Phil Upchurch<\/strong> (the LP was recorded in NYC), as well as a female backing chorus, Smith wails on the tune, managing to (in this first of two-parts) really do the track justice.<\/p>\n

As Hammond 45s go, \u2018Chain of Fools\u2019 is pretty hot, and I\u2019m sure it got more than a few feet moving when their owners dropped a nickel in the jukebox.<\/p>\n

It would also seem that \u2018Chain of Fools\u2019 had some success (it charted locally in New York) since it was repressed a bunch of times and even got a European release.<\/p>\n

So, if by some strange coincidence this is the first time you\u2019ve heard Smith\u2019s stuff (which I doubt, but bear with me) head out to your nearest used record store, garage sale or flea market and add some more Jimmy Smith to your crates, though a truckload of his Blue Note and Verve titles are available digitally, as well.<\/p>\n

So dig it, and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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