What's Going On (Johnny "Hammond" Smith album)

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What's Going On
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Studio album by Johnny "Hammond" Smith
Released 1971
Recorded April 12 and July, 1971
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length37:32
Label Prestige
PR 10015
Producer Bob Porter
Johnny "Hammond" Smith chronology
Here It 'Tis
(1970)		What's Going On
(1971)		 Breakout
(1971)

What's Going On is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith recorded for the Prestige label in 1971. [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
SourceRating
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The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars. [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Johnny "Hammond" Smith except where noted

  1. "What's Going On" (Renaldo Benson Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) - 9:45
  2. "Smokin' Cool" - 6:53
  3. "L and J" (James Clark) - 5:45
  4. "I'll Be There" (Hal Davis, Willie Hutch, Berry Gordy, Bob West) - 5:20
  5. "Between the Sheets" - 9:49

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.

Ernest Andrew "Ernie" Royal was a jazz trumpeter. His older brother was clarinetist and alto saxophonist Marshal Royal, with whom he appears on the classic Ray Charles big band recording The Genius of Ray Charles (1959).

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed April 30, 2013
  2. ↑ Johnny "Hammond" Smith discography accessed April 30, 2013
  3. 1 2 Allmusic listing accessed April 30, 2013.
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