Jimmy Smith at the Organ - Budget LP on Wyncote

[Teasing the Korean]

Anyone know anything about this LP?

The tracks are:

• Strange Love
• It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
• Lost In Loveliness
• Dancing On The Ceiling
• Night Winds
• You Go To My Head

[JSngry]

It's Don Gardner Trio stuff and was a staple of labels such as this back in the day, in part or in whole. 

[Teasing the Korean]

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

It's Don Gardner Trio stuff and was a staple of labels such as this back in the day, in part or in whole. 

Thanks.  Is it any good for what it is?

[JSngry]

I think so, yeah. 

[Brad]

According to Discogs Wyncote acted as a distributor for this record. I don’t recognize most of the artists listed under Wyncote so I’m assuming they were pop. Very little jazz.

https://www.discogs.com/label/33936-Wyncote?page=14

[Teasing the Korean]

14 minutes ago, Brad said:

According to Discogs Wyncote acted as a distributor for this record. I don’t recognize most of the artists listed under Wyncote so I’m assuming they were pop. Very little jazz.

https://www.discogs.com/label/33936-Wyncote?page=14

Wyncote was a budget label for Cameo/Parkway.  They did some jazz, or quasi-jazz, along the way.

[JSngry]

I love how they have a record by Brazil 67.

[Teasing the Korean]

9 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I love how they have a record by Brazil 67.

And it's great!

[JSngry]

Who is it really by? 

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Who is it really by? 

My mistake.  I was mixing it up with this budget album on Design:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333734596706

[Daniel A]

This is not too bad:

 

[JSngry]

Oh. Brazilia '67.

See, that's how they get you 

9 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

My mistake.  I was mixing it up with this budget album on Design:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333734596706

Possibly the same record? 

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Possibly the same record? 

The titles appear to be different, but they could have changed the titles, as budget labels were known to do.

[felser]

On 10/16/2022 at 5:32 PM, JSngry said:

Oh. Brazilia '67.  See, that's how they get you 

Brazilia '67 rather than Brasil '66.  And I agree, it sounds pretty decent.  Hard to go wrong with that song.

[JSngry]

Now I see why they went from 65 to 66 and then stopped!

[felser]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Now I see why they went from 65 to 66 and then stopped!

Sort of, they jumped decades.  BTW, fascinating album.

[Al in NYC]

I had a copy of this Wyncote Jimmy Smith/Don Gardner record, and a copy of an even cheesier record on the "Guest Star" label out of the Synthetic Plastics Co of Newark NJ featuring 2 Smith/Gardner cuts and a whole bunch of Wilson Lewes Trio fluff, both of which I bought out of some dollar or 50 cent record bin in an east side Detroit party store way back when I was in high school or college. Unfortunately my roommate was a real prog rock head and hated my jazz organ records.  He threw both of these records and a copy of an old McGriff bargain bin LP into a toaster oven and baked them until they were smooth, and gave them back to me in their covers with "this is a coaster" written across the label.  Still have at least one of 'em, weirdly enough.

 

Edited October 19, 2022 by Al in NYC

[GA Russell]

 

[felser]

1 hour ago, Al in NYC said:

 Unfortunately my roommate was a real prog rock head and hated my jazz organ records.  He threw both of these records and a copy of an old McGriff bargain bin LP into a toaster oven and baked them until they were smooth, and gave them back to me in their covers with "this is a coaster" written across the label. 

Hope you did the same with his 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' !

[Gheorghe]

"Jimmy Smith At The Organ" I think was one of those many many on BN from the mid fifties on. I really lost the trace. I never was a "organ freak" but I loved some of those Jimmy Smith albums, I think they were subtitled "The Incredible Jimmy Smith", like they had "The Amazing Bud Powell" or "The Eminent J.J.Johnson" .....
The Jimmy Smith I like most and still listen to is that session with Donald Bird, Lou Donaldson, Hank Mobley and Art Blakey. That´s the surrounding I like most. Or the "Sermon" though it doesn´t have a drummer as good as Blakey. 
From the trio dates, there is quite much of it, I have one which has a very fast "The Way You Look Tonight" on it. It sound´s a bit funny to me but is fine and grooves.....

[Ken Dryden]

On 10/19/2022 at 11:03 PM, felser said:

Hope you did the same with his 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' !

I got rid of both Yes albums that I owned before leaving New Orleans for grad school in 1976. The weakness of Jon Anderson’s word salad lyrics were too much for me.

[JSngry]

On 10/19/2022 at 10:03 PM, felser said:

Hope you did the same with his 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' !

For some reason, that's the only Yes record that ever clicked for me. Until it stopped clicking anyway, which was about a year after it clicked. I do remember liking the arrangements. I alos remember totally ignoring the lyrics becausejust because.

[felser]

I liked Yes's albums prior to "Tales" a lot, even the first two prior to "The Yes Album" (especially like the 1969 debut with all those cover versions). "Tales" was the first one that didn't really click for me, but I kept listening and have everything recorded through the 70's on my primary shelves.  I don't worry much about the lyrics, they're just there as a another sound ("Sharp!  Distance!  How can the wind with so many around me?  I feel lost in the city"  SOUNDS great on "Heart of the Sunrise", even if the meaning is, er, rather vague).  "Tales" just struck me then and strikes me now as spectacularly overblown.  The only time I saw them live (at Spectrum, ca. 1974) was when that album had just come out, and it was a tough listen when you were waiting for "Roundabout" and "Starship Trooper" and the like.

[jazzbo]

I used to be a big Yes fan, saw them twice, bought all their albums as they were released up through Tormato. Ironically, compared to John above, Tales from Topographic Oceans is my favorite, and the one I still reach for on occasion.

[Al in NYC]

It was not so much the Yes records I wanted to bake, as those Rick Wakeman solo albums.  Oh, and ELP, definitely ELP.