LoginRoot Down
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Root Down captures the king of the Hammond B3 organ, Jimmy Smith, playing down and dirty R&B. It isn't that Smith had forgotten that he was one of the jazz greats for this 1972 live concert, but with an LA rhythm section, there is definitely a groove here. A damn funky groove, at that. The album includes two versions (one previously unissued) of Smith's "Root Down," a song covered by the Beastie Boys in 1994. There is also a hypnotic reading of Al Green's pleading "Let's Stay Together," which yet again proves that Jimmy Smith is a man with a lot of soul. But it is when he ups the pace that the album real
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
Release date: 18 July 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731455980523 UPC: 731455980523
Release date: 18 July 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731455980523 UPC: 731455980523
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