Soul Flowers

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Soul Flowers
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Studio album by Johnny "Hammond" Smith
Released 1968
Recorded September 27, 1967
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length35:00
Label Prestige
PR 7549
Producer Cal Lampley
Johnny "Hammond" Smith chronology
Gettin' Up
(1967) Gettin' Up1967		Soul Flowers
(1967)		 Dirty Grape
(1968) Dirty Grape1968

Soul Flowers is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith recorded for the Prestige label in 1967. [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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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating "When a soul-jazz artist decides to devote the bulk of his album to pop standards and themes from the movies, stage, and TV, he better make damn sure that he interprets them in an inventive fashion. Fortunately, that's what Smith manages to do on this 1967 session". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Johnny "Hammond" Smith except where noted

  1. "N.Y.P.D." (Charles Gross) - 3:30
  2. "Dirty Apple" - 5:00
  3. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 3:20
  4. "Ode to Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry) - 3:15
  5. "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 3:10
  6. "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:05
  7. "Tara's Theme" (Max Steiner) - 3:35
  8. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 4:45
  9. "I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles, Renald Richard) - 5:20

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.

Houston Person American saxophonist

Houston Person is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. Although he has performed in the hard bop and swing genres, he is most experienced in and best known for his work in soul jazz. He received the Eubie Blake Jazz Award in 1982.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed April 29, 2013
  2. ↑ Johnny "Hammond" Smith discography accessed April 29, 2013
  3. 1 2 Unterberger, R. Allmusic listing accessed April 24, 2013.
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