| The Boss | ||||
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| Live album by Jimmy Smith | ||||
| Released | November 20, 1968 | |||
| Recorded | 1968 | |||
| Venue | Paschal's La Carousel, Atlanta, GA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 37:45 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
| Jimmy Smith chronology | ||||
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The Boss is a 1968 live album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith. [1]
James Oscar Smith was an American jazz musician whose albums often charted on Billboard magazine. He helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music.
The Allmusic review by Roy Wynn awarded the album three stars and said:
"Lots of fine solos. George Benson does best soul-jazz work since McDuff days" [1]
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Paschal's La Carousel was a jazz club in Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in 1960, it became known as Atlanta's "jazz mecca" as it featured top-name artists such as Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Gladys Knight, and Jimmy Smith. It was the only nightclub in Atlanta open to blacks in the then-segregated city. At the same time, an estimated 60 percent of its clientele were white, and the club also showed tolerance toward homosexuals. The club was owned by brothers Robert and James Paschal, who also ran the Paschal's Restaurant next door and, in 1967, a 125-room motor hotel which they added to the premises. The restaurant, lounge, and motel closed in 1996 and were sold to Clark Atlanta University for use as a student dormitory and conference centre. An event space resembling the original La Carousel lounge was installed at Paschal's at Castleberry Hill, which opened in 2002.
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