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ELECTRIFYIN'

Description:
4 CD set. 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.

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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

Fight

There Will Never Be Another You

How High the Moon

Buns a Plenty

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

Personnel: Donald Bailey, Donald Byrd, Lou Donaldson,Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell, more

Label:	PROPER BOX
Number:	139
Item Code:	62760
Format:	4-CD
Genre:
Dates:	(1956-1957)
Price:	$25.00 New!
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