noahawk07 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Jimmy Smith is a TOTAL badass !! He's got soul and technique and just kix it everytime!!

elneneperez (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

great great great..baby

JBSauce (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

So true, so true, those three are like the three wise men of the Hammond B3. Between those three, I've got over 60 albums. I also collect Richard "Groove" Holmes' work and some Don Patterson. Check out Joey DeFrancesco, who was mainly inspired by Jimmy Smith. They cut at least a couple albums together. Joey can really get down, especially on "Incredible!" from 2000.

bobgure (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Great clip!! Oh, what a groove - sticky and deep. Wish Quentin's solo was longer; such great phrasing..i'm gonna have to memorize that solo on my strat (yes, strat.) Billy Hart really stirs the salad on this one, Goddamn!! Thanx for your great uploads!

bobgure (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You said it! The groove is a-swaggerin' and killin' indeed.

micismyname (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

it dont get any cooler then this he can realy heat up that hamond b3 organ. just need to add a little saxaphone heaven man

qs12184 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

only recently have i got into jazz, of any sort, and this is fantastic, i bought 'back at the chicken shack' and js plays the blues, both make such good listening. never thought i'd drop ac/dc for this genre, still, mix it up!

Jammoko (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Jimmy wrote the book on what could be accomplished with a B3... I just love The Sermon. RIP JOS...

nonthere (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I first got into Jimmy Smith when I was 11because the movie theater I used to go to played his stuff before the flicks came on (in the days of double and triple features). I probably got to know at least 5 or 6 of his tunes before I even knew who he was. Drove me nuts until somebody finally told me. This song was one of them. Decades later I'm listening on youtube and the floor ain't even sticky. Can't get that sound out of my mind. Don't want to.

Shinmeiryu (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I met a man at a Sam's club one time; square looking old white man, but he was looking at some Bob Marley CDs, and I said, "You like Marley?" He replied, "Hell yeah." And a conversation started, don't remember how it turned to Jimmy Smith, but he told me that he saw Jimmy in Chicago back in 1958, and said it was the one of the craziest shows he had ever seen. He was also the only white guy there, from what he told me, lol. I really got into Jimmy that day, not that I already wasn't.