James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1928 [1] – February 8, 2005 [2]) was an American jazz musician who 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.

Jimmy Lee Smith Jr. (born February 9, 1969) is an American former professional football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars. He played college football for the Jackson State Tigers .

2024年12月4日 · Jimmy Smith (born December 8, 1928, Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 8, 2005, Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American musician who integrated the electric organ into jazz, thereby inventing the soul-jazz idiom, which …

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2024年12月8日 · It’s time for a reappraisal of The Incredible Jimmy Smith who did as much to popularize jazz as almost any of his contemporaries. Listen to the best of Jimmy Smith on Apple Music and...

2015年5月1日 · Jimmy Smith ignited a jazz revolution on an instrument associated at the time with ballparks, despite never playing one until the age of 28. His legendary multi-part technique on the Hammond B-3 organ, playing bass with the foot pedals and Charlie Parker -like single-line passages with his right hand, shook up the traditional trio as co-players ...

Jimmy Smith ruled the Hammond organ in the ’50s and ’60s. He revolutionized the instrument, showing it could be creatively used in a jazz context and popularized in the process. His Blue Note sessions from 1956 to 1963 were extremely influential and many, like 1960’s Back at the Chicken Shack and 1958 ‘s The Sermon, are classics.

2018年5月14日 · Jimmy Smith. Jazz organist. More than any other musician, Jimmy Smith was responsible for the rise in prominence of the Hammond B-3 organ in jazz.

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Jimmy Smith, born James Oscar Smith on December 8, 1928, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, was an influential American jazz musician renowned for his skill on the Hammond B-3 organ. His work significantly contributed to popularizing the Hammond organ, bridging jazz and 1960s soul music.