Jimmy Smith Trio - Mack The Knife

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Created by television pioneer and life-long jazz devotee Steve Allen, Jazz Scene USA was a nationally syndicated television program in the beginning of the sixties that showcased some of the best practitioners of that very American musical form. All appearances are featured in a relaxed, casual atmosphere created by hipster host, singer Oscar Brown Jr. Uncompromising in its use of imaginative camera angles, these shows are time capsules to cherish from America's golden days of televised jazz.

With the proliferation of Hammond B-3 organ today, it's hard to imagine a time when the instrument wasn't a common texture. Used in jazz before him as a sideline for kicks by the likes of Fats Waller and Count Basie, Smith (1925-2005)alone redefined the potential of the instrument. For ballads, he played walking bass lines on the bass foot pedals. For uptempo tunes, he would play the bass line on the lower manual and use the pedals for emphasis on the attack of certain notes, which helped to emulate the attack and sound of a string bass.Add to that his complete mastery of the bebop vocabulary, and a new era was born.

In this set circa 1962, Jimmy Smith plays "Walk On The Wild Side", Kurt Weil's "Mack The Knife" and Dizzy Gillespie's "The Champ" accompanied by Quentin Warren on guitar and Donald Bailey on drums.