Jimmy Smith - Quotes
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I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys. ---->>>
My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion. ---->>>
My boys told me they'd rather play than practice. ---->>>
I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell. ---->>>
Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too. ---->>>
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed. ---->>>
People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio. ---->>>
Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after. ---->>>
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find. ---->>>
All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white. ---->>>
I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was. ---->>>
I did my first recording. It was called The Champ. ---->>>
I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns. ---->>>
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white. ---->>>
Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning. ---->>>
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad. ---->>>
Biography
James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1925 or 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who achieved the rare distinction of releasing a series of instrumental jazz albums that often charted on Billboard. Smith helped popularize the Hammond B-3 electric organ, creating an indelible link between 1960s soul and jazz improvisation (wikipedia)