Electrifyin'
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Format:
Compact Disc (Audio)
No of Discs:
4
Availability:
Available
Release Date:
31-03-2008
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Packaging:
Box Set
Catalog Number:
PROPERBOX139
Description
While the electric organ was used in jazz by Fats Waller and Count Basie, Smith's virtuoso improvisation technique on the Hammond helped to popularize the electric organ as a jazz and blues instrument. For ballads, he played walking bass lines on the bass foot pedals. For uptempo tunes, he would play the bass line on the lower manual and use the pedals for emphasis on the attack of certain notes, which helped to emulate the attack and sound of a string bass. Smith influenced many other jazz organists. More recently, Smith influenced bands such as the Beastie Boys, who sampled the bassline from "Root Down (And Get It)" - and saluted Smith in the lyrics - for their own hit "Root Down", also Medeski, Martin & Wood and The Hayden-Eckert Ensemble. The Acid Jazz movement also reflects Smith's organ style.
Tracks
- Name
- The Champ
- Falling In Love With Love
- Funk's Oats
- Groovy Date
- I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
- Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
- I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
- Summertime
- Somebody Loves Me
- Plum Nellie
- Billie's Bounce
- Yardbird Suite
- There's A Small Hotel
- All Day Long
- All The Things You Are
- The Flight
- There Will Never Be Another You
- How High The Moon
- Buns A Plenty
- The Duel
- Blue Moon
- Blues After All
- Just Friends
- J.O.S
- After Hours
- My Funny Valentine
- Slightly Monkish
- Laura
- Just Friends
- Imagination
- Lover Man
- Body And Soul
- Indiana
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