Jimmy Smith: Midnight Special LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) ETJS-1.09 Critic Michael Ullman suggested that

Critic Michael Ullman suggested that the blues classics chosen for this program may have been neutral ground

The duo that critics have called "a match made in heaven" are in peak form on the sequel to their 1956 debut

Scofield and Metheny

A sense of relaxed excitement suffuses this whole date

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Jimmy Smith: Midnight Special LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) ETJS-1.09 Critic Michael Ullman suggested thatBlue Note, 1961 Its a testament to Jimmy Smiths volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classicsMidnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shackin a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums. Smith had been a self taught pianist before abandoning the instrument in 1954 in favor of the