All Soul (Johnny "Hammond" Smith album)

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All Soul
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Studio album by
Released1959
RecordedSeptember 11, 1959
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz
Length38:56
Label New Jazz
NJ 8221
Producer Esmond Edwards
Johnny "Hammond" Smith chronology
Imagination
(1959)
All Soul
(1959)
That Good Feelin'
(1959)

All Soul is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith recorded for the New Jazz label in 1959. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Stewart Mason in his review for Allmusic stated, "Smith would go on to make better albums, but All Soul is a promising debut". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Johnny "Hammond" Smith except where noted.

  1. " Goin' Places" – 6:49
  2. "Sweet Cookies" – 6:34
  3. "The Masquerade is Over" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 4:42
  4. "Pennies from Heaven" (Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston) – 4:35
  5. "Easy Like" – 7:30
  6. "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:30
  7. "All Soul" (Curtis Lewis) – 4:16

Personnel

Production

References

  1. Prestige Records discography accessed April 23, 2013
  2. Johnny "Hammond" Smith discography accessed April 23, 2013
  3. 1 2 Mason, S. Allmusic listing accessed April 23, 2013.
  4. Gleason, Ralph J. (March 3, 1960). "Johnny (Hammond) Smith: All Soul". DownBeat . Vol. 27, no. 5. p. 39.