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Jimmy Smith

85–170 BPMjazz bluessoul jazzorgan trio

1960s hammond organ trio jazz blues from the 1960s: hammond b-3 organ, leslie speaker swirl, organ pedal bass, swaggering and warm in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

Style: Jazz Blues · Related styles: Soul Jazz, Organ Trio Jazz, St. Louis Blues, Blues

History

Jimmy Smith turned the Hammond B-3 organ into a front-line jazz instrument. Before him the organ was mostly heard in churches and roller rinks; he played it like a horn, with fast bebop right-hand lines, blues licks that bent and smeared through the Leslie speaker, and bass lines walked on the pedals and left hand so the trio needed no bassist. A Pennsylvania musician, he broke through on Blue Note in the late 1950s, where records such as The Sermon! stretched a single slow blues across a whole album side and let guest soloists take long turns over the groove. Back at the Chicken Shack, with tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and guitarist Kenny Burrell, is the model of the organ, sax and guitar format that soul jazz grew from. He later moved to Verve for bigger band settings. A listener knows him by the percussive click at the start of each note, the long held chords that swell and scream, and a groove that never stops swinging. Nearly every jazz organist after him, and later the acid jazz and hip-hop crowd, drew on his sound.

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