Track Listing

1. Back At The Chicken Shack
2. When I Grow Too Old To Dream
3. Minor Chant
4. Messy Bessie
5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street (2007 Digital Remaster)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15929 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.com
This is the kind of nasty, back-alley music that makes you wince in ecstasy. With Stanley Turrentine's tenor and Kenny Burrell's guitar sharing solo space, the Hammond master digs in with a blues-drenched shovel. While certainly fluent in the bop idiom, Smith's organ work maintains a direct emotional peg that reflects the swing and jump blues of a previous generation. Turrentine, a relative newcomer at this point (1960), proves a perfect foil for Smith's funky ideas, forgoing flashy bop runs in favor of soulful, expressive passages. Even on chestnuts such as "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street," the foursome boils the melodies down to their barest bluesy core. Back at the Chicken Shack is the prototypical soul-jazz recording. --Marc Greilsamer

Album Description
Japanese reissue of the classic jazz album originally released on Blue Note in 1960. Part of the 'Soul Jazz' series that features 24 bit remastering by RVG and a miniature LP sleeve. 2000 release.