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Paul Smith  - Heavy Jazz album flac Performer: Paul Smith
Title: Heavy Jazz
Style: Instrumental, Swing
Released: 1977
Country: Japan
MP3 album: 1127 mb
FLAC album: 1983 mb
Rating: 4.6
Other formats: MOD APE MMF MP4 FLAC DTS DMF
Genre: Jazz

A1 Lover 5:39 A2 You Are Too Beautiful 6:42 A3 Pick Yourself Up 3:58 A4 I Got Rhythm 4:57 B1 'S Wonderful 6:39 B2 A Foggy Day 7:35 B3 What Is This Thing Called Love 6:50. Bass – Ray Brown Drums – Louis Bellson Piano – Paul Smith. Outstanding Records ‎– 009 (US). Thanks to snobb for the addition and js for the updates.

Paul Thatcher Smith (April 17, 1922 - June 29, 2013) was an American jazz pianist. He performed in various genres of jazz, most typically bebop, but is best known as an accompanist of singers, especially Ella Fitzgerald. Smith was born in San Diego, California to parents, Lon Smith and Constance Farmer, who were vaudeville performers and encouraged his interest in music.

Lonnie Smith (born July 3, 1942), styled Dr. Lonnie Smith, is an American jazz Hammond B3 organist who was a member of the George Benson quartet in the 1960s. He recorded albums with saxophonist Lou Donaldson for Blue Note before being signed as a solo act. He owns the label Pilgrimage. He was born in Lackawanna, New York, into a family with a vocal group and radio program. Smith says that his mother was a major influence on him musically, as she introduced him to gospel, classical, and jazz music.

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Posed with the question, Who invented jazz album cover design? Most people will instantly say, Blue Note Records, and Reid Miles in particular. But this would be a gross simplification as well as inaccurate. Perhaps most ironic of all, given that Blue Note album sleeves have become the benchmark against which all modern jazz covers – and those of just about any other album – are measured, Miles was not a jazz fan, but a classical-music lover. Yet perhaps it was his distance from the music that was also his strength, allowing him to approach the design unencumbered by all but the basic details – the album title, the feel of the music, and something about the session. And of course, he had Francis Wolff’s brilliant photographs.

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Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Lover
Written-By – R. Rodgers & L. Hart*
5:39
A2 You Are Too Beautiful
Written-By – R. Rodgers & L. Hart*
6:42
A3 Pick Yourself Up
Written-By – D. Fields*, J. Kern*
3:58
A4 I Got Rhythm
Written-By – G. Gershwin & I. Gerschwin*
4:57
B1 'S Wonderful
Written-By – G. Gershwin & I. Gerschwin*
6:39
B2 A Foggy Day
Written-By – G. Gershwin & I. Gerschwin*
7:35
B3 What Is This Thing Called Love
Written-By – Cole Porter
6:50

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Outstanding Records
  • Copyright (c) – Outstanding Records

Credits

  • Artwork [Cover Painting: Winter Magic] – Vernon Kerr
  • Bass – Ray Brown
  • Drums – Louis Bellson
  • Liner Notes – Dan Morgenstern
  • Piano – Paul Smith
  • Producer – Earl S. Beecher, Ph.D, Robert M. Simpson

Notes

℗ © Outstanding Records.

Outstanding Records
P.O. Box 2111
Huntington Beach, Calif. 92647
842-8635

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
RVJ-6084 Paul Smith , Ray Brown, Louis Bellson Paul Smith , Ray Brown, Louis Bellson - The Jazz Trio ‎(LP, Album) Insights RVJ-6084 Japan 1980


Comments: (1)
elektron
From the Dan Morgenstern's original liner notes: "Paul Smith knows and likes the classical piano tradition. I must confess that I'm often turned off by displays of such knowledge within a straight-ahead jazz context. But Smith, who does it playfully rather than pretentiously, gets away with references ranging from Bach to Rachmaninoff, as very few before him (Tatum and Shearing among them) have been able to. ..The music was recorded live to a Studer A80 two- track recorder, then direct to a Neuman SAL 74 cutting system with no processing (no equalizers or amplifiers were used). Evern the cutting console was bypassed in order to obtain the truest reproduction of sound possible. This is what recorded music should sound like."