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Jimmy Smith, Back at the Chicken Shack

Audio CD

Disk ID: 206842

Disk length: 43m 53s (5 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1960

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Back At The Chicken Shack 8:05
2. When I Grow Too Old To Dream 9:54
3. Minor Chant 7:33
4. Messy Bessie12:30
5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street 5:46

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Review

This is the kind of nasty, back-alley music that makes you wince in ecstasy. With Stanley Turrentine's tenor and Kenny Burrell's guitar sharing solo space, the Hammond master digs in with a blues-drenched shovel. While certainly fluent in the bop idiom, Smith's organ work maintains a direct emotional peg that reflects the swing and jump blues of a previous generation. Turrentine, a relative newcomer at this point (1960), proves a perfect foil for Smith's funky ideas, forgoing flashy bop runs in favor of soulful, expressive passages. Even on chestnuts such as "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street," the foursome boils the melodies down to their barest bluesy core. Back at the Chicken Shack is the prototypical soul-jazz recording. --Marc Greilsamer

Other Versions

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Back at the Chicken Shack

Tracks: 5, Disk length: 43m 53s

Back at the Chicken Shack

Tracks: 5, Disk length: 43m 54s (+0m 1s)

Back at the Chicken Shack

Tracks: 5, Disk length: 44m 1s (+0m 8s)

Back at the Chicken Shack

Tracks: 4 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 38m 5s (-6m 12s)

Back at the Chicken Shack

Tracks: 4 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 38m 4s (-6m 11s)

Back at the Chicken Shack

Tracks: 4 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 37m 58s (-6m 5s)

Back at the Chicken Shack

Tracks: 4 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 37m 53s (-6m)

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