Jimmy Smith - Standards

Standards is a 12-track collection that is culled from the sessions that resulted in the House Party and Home Cookin' albums, both of which featured Jimmy Smith in a trio with guitarist Kenny Burrell and drummer Donald Bailey. All of the songs are familiar standards along the lines of "Bye Bye Blackbird," "I'm Just a Lucky So and So," "September Song," "Mood Indigo" and "It Might As Well Be Spring," and seven of the tracks are previously unreleased. Throughout the album, the trio is relaxed and laidback, resulting in a warm, inviting collection of standards. It's among Smith's mellowest recordings, and it's all the better for it.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Jimmy Smith

Standards

Tracks

1 Little Girl Blue (Hart, Rodgers) 5:20
2 Bye Bye Blackbird (Dixon, Henderson) 6:08
3 I'm Just a Lucky So and So (David, Ellington) 5:39
4 Ruby (Parish, Roemheld) 3:38
5 September Song (Anderson, Weill) 5:10
6 I Didn't Know What Time It Was [#] (Hart, Rodgers) 6:22
7 Memories of You [#] (Blake, Razaf) 5:47
8 But Beautiful [#] (Burke, VanHeusen) 3:54
9 Mood Indigo [#] (Bigard, Ellington, Mills) 5:32
10 While We're Young [#] (Engvick, Palitz, Wilder) 4:50
11 It Might as Well Be Spring [#] (Hammerstein, Rodgers) 9:03
12 Last Dance [#] (Smith) 4:54

Personnel
Jimmy Smith - org
Kenny Burrell - g
Donald Bailey - dr

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey ; August 25, 1957 [# 1], July 15, 1958 [# 2-5] & May 25, 1959 [# 6-12]