Listen to the best of Jimmy Smith on Apple Music and Spotify. “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.” – Jimmy Smith When Jimmy came along, his playing was revolutionary. We’ve become so used to every kind of synthesized sound that we take for granted that with today’s keyboards we can make anything sound like anything. The shock that people felt on hearing Jimmy’s Hammond organ in full flight is impossible to measure today. Without Smith, Booker T would not have developed his sound he influenced Gregg Allman, and Greg Rolie of Santana. Jon Lord of Deep Purple acknowledged the influence of Smith, as did Peter Bardens, Brian Auger, Rick Wakeman, and Keith Emerson. Born on December 8, 1928, he broke down the barriers between the genres to get people listening to his Hammond B3. His Hammond organ playing influenced just about everyone that followed him in jazz and in rock, and it is all too easy to downplay his achievements in taking the electric organ out of the lounges and bars and putting it center stage. People way too often overlook Jimmy Smith.
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