Jimmy Smith (UK) - The Party Side Of Jimmy Smith - Kawai E550 Organ (1080p HD 320kbps)

The Party Side Of Jimmy Smith 1980
A1 The More I See You / There Will Never Be Another You / The Very Thought Of You
A2 All Of Me / When You're Smiling / Who's Sorry Now
A3 So What's New / Oh Babe / I Believe In Music
A4 Just In Time
A5 I Can't Get Over Getting Over You / I Don't Want To Walk Without You Baby
A6 Sing / We Can Sing In The Sunshine / When You Smile
B1 Rise
B2 Gonna Get Along Without You Now / I Love To Love (But My Baby Loves To Dance) / Your Love
B3 It All Depends On You
B4 Get A Little Sand Between Your Toes / Can't Give You Anything / Delilah
B5 Night And Day / Dancing In The Dark
B6 My Heart Belongs To Daddy / I'm In The Mood For Dancin'
Vintage Home Organ Group
mikebracchi.co.uk

[@andyg1957]

That's the voicing I asked Kawai to put on the drawbars. The prototype had the same much smoother Tibia voicing on tabs and drawbars. The DX900 had the same edgy drawbar sound. When voicing the SR series, we went for a more lush, Gulbransen type sound. It was people wanted, so we obliged! Nice to hear some of my solo voicings on the Kawai S100P synth too! I wouldn't mind one of those today! A little aside. The Leslie used here is a 145. Shortly after this album was made, Jimmy provided this E550 for me to use at a local concert. We got it up on stage, plugged it in - no sound from the leslie channel. They'd removed the leslie fitting kit but hadn't restored the wiring! Good job I always carried my tool kit with me back them. I also tweaked the strings phasing that night. It's not quite at its most lush here - but still sounds good.

[@jaykay1053]

@@andyg1957 It is so cool to read your note here. You are obviously well-versed in all things organ: understatement of the century! This sound reminds me of the fun my siblings and I had growing up in a house filled with great music like this whose sound you were involved in producing. Thank you! Reminiscing: My Dad was a DJ during his teen years (1940’s) and had a fabulous reel-to-reel stereo in our upstairs living room. Above that room was a bandstand, high above and only accessible via a vertical, wrought iron ladder affixed to a ‘hidden’ wall. The bandstand overlooked the room and was viewable almost all the way around. The acoustics were incredible! On the bandstand, we had a professional drum kit, grand piano, various island handheld instruments and… a Yamaha organ from the ‘60s. 5 kids, 2 parents, multiple dogs and countless giant parties; my parents enjoyed many years of entertaining. I now have the piano, the drum kit was returned to the musician who asked my Dad to store it for him, and I donated the organ to my University. Selfishly, I’m wishing now that I hadn’t. If you’ve read this far, thanks! I enjoy reminiscing about those good ol’ days! (Man, I feel old) Thank you for your contribution to the history of music. Those old sound are quality. Cheers. 🥂

[@luiselizalde5917]

Great organist and great organ Kawai.

[@hughwallington]

Mike. This LP was the one of the first LPs I had. It was Jimmy Smith's style of playing that got me interested in organ music. The two tracks I was particularly smitten by were the last two tracks on side B .. B5 and B6. Amazing changes of style and tempo. Hugh

[@mikebracchi]

Hi Hugh, nice to hear from you. It is a great album and Jimmy is a real nice player. Hope you're keeping well 🙂

[@daz501]

Lovely guy was Jimmy, he really didn't know how good he was. His favourite memories were of playing Kawai through a decent Leslie speaker. These were by far the best Kawai ever made. Hope you're keeping well Mike 👍😁

[@mikebracchi]

Hello Daz, great to hear from you ... hope your keeping well mate. I never met Jimmy, did hear him a few times at the trade fairs (Welson) ... everyone speaks highly of him. I believe he's still around, not that far from me in West Sussex.

[@daz501]

@@mikebracchi Hi Mike, yes I'm still in the land of the living haha! Jimmy played for Welson and Wurlitzer where he met Glenn Derringer and did a lot of shows with him. Jimmy had stories of his days with Glenn and says he never once came away without a sense of amazement after hearing him. I've not heard from Jimmy in ages now, he used to be quite active on youtube.

[@jamesspiers6496]

@@mikebracchi Jimmy has been retired for some years now and has moved to the south coast. He stills plays around with the Hammond Sound for his own pleasure.

[@paulj0557tonehead]

Herb Alpert even got a Rise out of this version B1. SIDE B IS GREAT! A, not so much. Best solid state draw bars were these 70's Kawai's. The 80's SR's pale in comparison to the 70's models IMHO.

[@tobeycat2007]

Our dx900 plue leslie sounded fab, almost like T5 model.

[@TheHallelujahTime]

Great sound! I leaned to play on this organ with an external Leslie, beautiful tone!

[@gilmangus83]

Good party.

[@andypruss]

Great drawbar sound and performance! Many thanks for sharing!

[@jonsolton7907]

Those drawbars sound fab.

[@philgray1023]

I can pick one of these up free. I'm not sure Jimmy should have taken album cover advice from Jimmy Seville.

[@ando2246]

love his style. unfortunately i cant find any of his songs on spotify

[@tobeycat2007]

Great recording Jimmy Smiths best in my opinion and the Kawai sounds great also.

[@waldoordenes3163]

Buenissimo!@

[@Danny-nm9sn]

There won't be a great era in pop music like this again - thanks for letting us hear it

[@ParallelNewsNetwork]

Sure there will. Might take another world war but the greatest eras are yet to come cause we all know we are in the worst era of pop music right now.

[@lesliefreak2045]

1980 Jimmy Smith play the Wersi Saturn! Not a Kawai !?!?

[@mikebracchi]

Jimmy Smith (UK) plays Kawai on this album ... this artist is NOT the jazz organist from the USA, Jimmy Smith! Jimmy Smith (USA) played the Wersi Saturn .... I'm shocked that you can't tell the difference in style!?!?

[@B3-R]

Jimmy never used automatic accmp

[@jamesspiers6496]

@@B3-R There was one LP where Jimmy played with Chris Karan on Drums and I'm searching through my collection for it now but you can understand he has played a lot of music including a series of Strict Tempo LPs he did for a famous Dance School in the North of England.