No amount of hype can exaggerate the impact that Jimmy Smith had on the burgeoning hard bop movement when he recorded his first Blue Note records in 1956. In fact, he defined the soulful sound that the movement increasingly adopted in the later Fifties. While he defined as well the modern organ-guitar-drums combo - giving it faster, bebop lines - he did the same for slightly larger groups, when he recorded with Lou Donaldson, Jackie McLean, and Lee Morgan. But then Smith, in the Sixties, with his move to Verve, both enlarged his palette and appealed to a bigger market. He continued to articulate that unique, spiky organ sound, only now it knifed through entire orchestras. His work in particular with the great Wes Montgomery is among the most exciting big-band jazz of the era.
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