Damn! (Jimmy Smith album) explained

Damn!
Type:studio
Artist:Jimmy Smith
Cover:Damn Jimmy.jpeg
Released:1995
Recorded:January 24–25, 1995
Genre:Jazz
Length:62:48
Label:Verve
Chronology:Jimmy Smith
Prev Title:Sum Serious Blues'
Prev Year:1993
Next Year:1996

Damn! is a 1996 album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith. The album was Smith's first album for Verve Records for over twenty years.[1] [2]

Damn! peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Top Jazz Album charts.

It's the last recording session of the drummer Art Taylor, a few weeks before his death.[3]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Steve Leggett awarded the album four stars with Leggett writing that "The whole album, start to finish, works a wonderful groove, but versions here of James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man," and Charlie Parker's "Scrapple from the Apple" are particularly strong..Damn! is right up there with his best work, full of a joyous energy, and it sparked a resurgence of sorts for Smith."[1]

Track listing

  1. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (James Brown) – 7:30
  2. "Sister Sadie" (Horace Silver) – 6:57
  3. "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 6:50
  4. "The One Before This" (Gene Ammons) – 6:53
  5. "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 8:43
  6. "Dat Dere" (Bobby Timmons) – 7:30
  7. "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker) – 5:25
  8. "Hi-Fly" (Randy Weston) – 6:35
  9. "A L Mode" (Curtis Fuller) – 6:25

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=damn%21-mw0000177033|pure_url=yes}} Damn!]. Allmusic. March 23, 2015.
  2. http://www.discogs.com/Jimmy-Smith-Damn/master/801681 Discogs
  3. Web site: Art Taylor Biography . . October 7, 2021.

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