17,663 views Aug 14, 2024 JIMMY SMITH SEPTET – Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1995 – Congress Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands Line-up: Jimmy Smith (org), Mark Whitfield (g), Nicolas Payton (tp), Jimmy Jackson (dr), Ron Blake (s), Christian McBride (b) Possible setlist: 1 Organ Grinder Swing 2 Midnight Special 3 It’s Allright with Me 4 The One Before This 5 Water Melon Man 6 The Sermon James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music. In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that America bestows upon jazz musicians. Date & venue: SUNDAY 16 JULY 1995 • JAN STEEN ZAAL • Congress Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands Welcome to the official North Sea Jazz Archive! On our channel you will find live performances and interviews of Jazz Legends like Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Maceo Parker, Herbie Hancock and many more, who have performed at the legendary North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands Watch more videos 👉 https://bit.ly/MoreNSJArchive Subscribe now 👉 https://bit.ly/SubscribeNSJArchive Website 👉 https://www.northseajazz.com Thanks for all your support. Rating the video and leaving a comment is always appreciated! Please: respect each other in the comments. This is the official YouTube channel of North Sea Jazz Archive
James Oscar Smith was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania northwest of Philadelphia.[4] He joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine in clubs at the age of six. He began teaching himself to play the piano. When he was nine, Smith won a Philadelphia radio talent contest as a boogie-woogie pianist.[5] After a period in the U.S. Navy, he began furthering his musical education in 1948, with a year at Royal Hamilton College of Music, then the Leo Ornstein School of Music in Philadelphia in 1949.