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Jimmy Smith

Day 18
#66 – Jimmy Smith (1925–2005). American jazz musician. Helped to popularize the Hammond B-3 electric organ. Albums include: A New Sound, A New Star (1956), Back At The Chicken Shack (1960) and Root Down (1972).

‘Jimmy’ in harmony with a ‘Hammond’. The two ‘m’s’ matching summed it up.

0.5 hour

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to excerpts from ‘Back at the Chicken Shack’.

 
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