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Jimmy Smith

Jimmy Smith
  • Name: Jimmy Smith
  • Birthday: 1925-12-08
  • Place of birth: Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Popularity: 1.406
Biography: James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician whose albums often appeared on Billboard magazine charts. He helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music. In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that America bestows upon jazz musicians. There is confusion about Smith's birth year, with sources citing either 1925 or 1928. Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, he joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine in clubs at the age of six. He began teaching himself to play the piano. When he was nine, Smith won a... Read More

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Title Release date
Jazz Icons: Jimmy Smith Live in '69   as  Self 2009-12-01
One Night with Blue Note   as  Self 2004-01-27
Street Girls   as  Jimmy 1975-01-01
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 2. Ein Jazz-Organist in Amerika   as  Self 1966-10-27
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith   as  Self 1966-10-20