Opus De Funk (album)

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Opus De Funk
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Studio album by Johnny "Hammond" Smith
Released 1966
Recorded February 14 and May 12, 1961
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz
Label Prestige
PR 7420
Producer Esmond Edwards
Johnny "Hammond" Smith chronology
Stimulation
(1961)		Opus De Funk
(1966)		 Johnny "Hammond" Cooks with Gator Tail
(1962)

Opus De Funk is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith recorded for the Prestige label in 1961 but not released until 1966. [1] [2]

Johnny "Hammond" Smith American organist

John Robert "Johnny Hammond" Smith was an American soul jazz and hard bop organist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he was a renowned player of the Hammond B-3 organ so earning "Hammond" as a nickname, which also avoided his being confused with jazz guitarist Johnny Smith.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "The really unusual element here is the presence of McCoy, because one doesn't usually associate vibes with jazz organ combos. The vibes work, however, and give the resonance of Smith's organ a lighter counterpoint that brightens up the overall sound". [3]

AllMusic Online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

Track listing

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

  1. "Opus de Funk" (Horace Silver) – 5:19
  2. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 4:27
  3. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer) – 4:11
  4. "Sad Eyes" – 4:50
  5. "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 5:45
  6. "If Someone Had Told Me" (Peter DeRose, Charles Tobias) – 4:31
  7. "Shirley's Theme" – 4:39

Personnel

Hammond organ electric organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Various models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to specify a variety of sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier so it can drive a speaker cabinet. Around two million Hammond organs have been manufactured. The organ is commonly used with, and associated with, the Leslie speaker.

Freddie McCoy

Vibraphone musical instrument

The vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars, and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist or vibraharpist.

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References

  1. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed April 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Johnny "Hammond" Smith discography accessed April 24, 2013
  3. 1 2 Lankford, Jr. R. D. AllMusic listing accessed April 24, 2013.
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