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]
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| Released | 1995 | |||
| Recorded | January 24–25, 1995 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 62:48 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
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Damn! peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Top Jazz Album charts.[3]
It's the last recording session of the drummer Art Taylor, a few weeks before his death.[4]
Reception edit
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
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 edit
- "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (James Brown) – 7:30
- "Sister Sadie" (Horace Silver) – 6:57
- "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 6:50
- "The One Before This" (Gene Ammons) – 6:53
- "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 8:43
- "Dat Dere" (Bobby Timmons) – 7:30
- "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker) – 5:25
- "Hi-Fly" (Randy Weston) – 6:35
- "A L Mode" (Curtis Fuller) – 6:25
Personnel edit
Musicians
- Jimmy Smith – organ, arranger
- Roy Hargrove – flugelhorn, trumpet
- Nicholas Payton – trumpet
- Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - drums
- Abraham Burton – alto saxophone
- Mark Turner– tenor saxophone (track 2)
- Tim Warfield– tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 4, 5, 9)
- Ron Blake – tenor saxophone (tracks 4, 5, 9),
- Mark Whitfield – guitar
- Christian McBride – double bass
- Art Taylor – drums
Production
- Jim Anderson – engineer, mixing
- Lola Smith – executive producer
- Allan Tucker – mastering
- Chris Albert – mixing assistant
- Jimmy Katz – photography
- Camille Tominaro – production coordination
- David Lau – art direction, design
- Rudi Mallasch – assistant coordinator
- Scott Austin – assistant engineer
- Nate Herr – coordination
- Richard Seidel – producer
- Don Sickler
References edit
- ^ a b c "Damn!". Allmusic. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
- ^ Discogs accessed March 20, 2015
- ^ Damn! – Awards at AllMusic
- ^ "Art Taylor Biography". All About Jazz. Retrieved October 7, 2021.