Jimmy Smith - Prayer Meetin'
Jimmy Smith – organ [click here to see more vinyl featuring Jimmy Smith]
Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone [click here to see more vinyl featuring Stanley Turrentine]
Quentin Warren – guitar
Donald Bailey – drums
1 LP, gatefold jacket
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : Blue Note Tone Poet
Original Label : Blue Note
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on February 8, 1963
Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder
Produced by Joe Harley
Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Originally released in 1964
Reissued in 2020
Tracks :
Side A :
- Prayer Meetin'
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- Stone Cold Dead In The Market
Side B :
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- Red Top
- Picnickin'
Awards:
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
Reviews :
« Playing piano-style single-note lines on his Hammond B-3 organ, Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of the instrument in a jazz combo setting in the mid-'50s and early '60s, and arguably his best albums for Blue Note during this period were the ones he did with tenor sax player Stanley Turrentine. Recorded on February 8, 1963, at Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey, and featuring Quentin Warren on guitar and Donald Bailey on drums in addition to Smith and Turrentine, Prayer Meetin' is a delight from start to finish. Forming a perfect closure to Smith's trio of albums with Turrentine (Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack were both released in 1960), Prayer Meetin' was the last of four albums Smith recorded in a week to finish off his Blue Note contract before leaving for Verve. The blues roots are obvious here, and the Smith-penned title track might even be called jazz-gospel, but the single most striking cut is a version of Ivory Joe Hunter's "I Almost Lost My Mind," with both Smith and Turrentine building wonderful solos, suggesting new pathways for organ and sax as complementary instruments. » AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett
Ratings :
AllMusic 4.5/5 , Discogs 4.43 / 5