Bucket! [Original recording remastered]

Bucket! [Original recording remastered]

ASIN: B00004SQ2B

Editorial Reviews
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Some have said that Bucket! is the sound of organist Jimmy Smith punching the clock, checking in for a routine shift at work. But the man who added the Hammond organ to the postbop jazz vocabulary punches the clock in a way that few on their best days can match. In a classic organ jazz trio formation with drummer Don Bailey and guitarist Quentin Warren, this 1963 session reveals some interesting choices from the leader. Among the nine tunes, two of which are added for this reissue, Smith tackles Ellington's "Just Squeeze Me," W.C. Handy's "Careless Love," Johnny Mercer's "Come Rain Or Shine," and even the traditional "John Brown's Body" with his singular style and sound. As on his other work, Smith stretches notes and phrases any way he wants with a mastery comparable to Aretha Franklin's. Both can take a simple song heard in church and find deeper meaning hidden between the notes, making the tunes very much their own. Even if Smith is punching the clock, this is still time well spent. --Tad Hendrickson

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