I've been starting to index my records on Discogs recently, and it's been a good exercise to go back through a lot of albums I haven't listened to in a minute and decide whether I still want to keep them. When I first started digging in the mid-90s, Jimmy Smith albums (except for the elusive Root Down) seemed to be in dollar bins everywhere. I eagerly scooped them up since it was still Blue Note (many first presses) and you never knew what cool sounds you'd find on there. But admittedly as the years have passed, I've realized I can only handle so much b3 organ playing, especially in the more straight-ahead style of many of Smith's albums. So it's not often I've gone back to these records. But this week as I categorized them all and put a few on, I figured it was a good time to do a short tribute to the legend, and play a few non-Beastie Boy-sampled cuts I enjoy. A little crunchy at times but still some funky stuff! Dig it.

May 22 2024

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Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 248 - Brief Jimmy Smith Tribute

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Hip hop artist Chris Crack’s work ethic is not to be questioned. He’s rightfully been tagged as one of the hardest working artists in the hip hop landscape and, from the looks of it, he doesn’t plan to relinquish that label anytime soon. Chris follows up his stellar “Crackheads Live Longer Than Vegans”, released just a short 14 days ago, with
another amazing album, full of the organized chaos that fans and critics have come to recognize as Chris’ signature brand. This album project is a labor of love and done to prove that, to true artists, there ARE no rules to how music is released, produced, or
consumed. The entire album was written in a little under a week and Chris & his engineer, Cutta, locked themselves into a rigorous 15+ hour studio session to get it all recorded, mixed, and sequenced in 1 day. “The Future Will Be Confusing” is Chris’ middle-finger-manifesto, aimed at individuals within the hip hop community who seem to have forgotten the rebellious, free-spirited foundation on which the culture was built. Like his works of the past, Chris refuses to follow any standard format, conjuring a mixture of genres accompanied with off-kilter sound bytes to construct a cohesive work of art.

Feat: Cutta, Ugly Boy Modeling & Stepchild

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